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Federal enforcement agencies are targeting three U.S. cities per week for large-scale immigration arrests, with Aurora, Colorado, to come next, three sources familiar with the planning told NBC News.

So far this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, along with other federal law enforcement agencies, have focused arrests in Chicago, in an operation that began Sunday, and New York City, where arrests began Tuesday. Those efforts will next shift to Aurora for an operation beginning Thursday morning, the sources said.

Aurora, about 40 minutes outside Denver, was a focus for Donald Trump during his presidential campaign as he said the city had been “infected by Venezuela,” referring to reports of criminal activity by a Venezuelan gang. City officials pushed back on Trump’s rhetoric, and Police Chief Todd Chamberlain told NBC News that Aurora is “very safe.”

Sources familiar with plans to carry out Trump’s promise of mass deportation operations said ICE field offices across the country have been told to increase their routine operations to pick up more migrants. Those operations may include some federal law enforcement agents from other agencies, they said.

In addition, agents across federal agencies will fly into three cities per week for larger operations, for what one source described as an “all hands on deck” approach to boost the number of arrests.

On Sunday, acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello gave direction to leaders of ICE’s field offices to increase their daily arrest numbers to a goal of 1,200 to 1,500, according to two sources familiar with an internal meeting. One source described the number as a goal meant as motivation, while another said that it is a quota and that agents may be penalized for not meeting it. The Washington Post was first to report that ICE had been directed to arrest 1,200 to 1,500 migrants as a daily quota.

As a result of the directive, agents are now arresting more migrants who have no criminal records in what they call “collateral arrests.” A senior Trump administration official told NBC News nearly half of the 1,200 arrested on Sunday were not considered “criminal” arrests.

American citizens, including citizens of Native tribal nations, have been pulled into the vast immigration operations ordered by President Donald Trump in accordance with his campaign vow to conduct mass deportations since Day 1.

Those who are getting caught in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids are being targeted because of their race or skin color, according to witnesses.

The Navajo Nation Office was flooded with calls from tribal members living off-reservation, with many reporting being questioned about their identity by ICE officers, Native News Online reported.

Questioning of Navajo Nation citizens, who are American citizens, by ICE has been problematic enough that Navajo President Buu Nygren took to the airwaves to address it. On tribal radio station KTNN, Nygren said he had received accounts of “negative and sometimes traumatizing” encounters between ICE and Navajo Nation citizens, Native News Online reported.

He advised Navajo Nation residents to carry identification, driver’s licenses and their Certificate of Indian Blood.

NBC News reached out to ICE regarding the detaining and questioning of Navajo Nation citizens and complaints of racial profiling, and has not yet received a response.

One of the employees detained and questioned by ICE at a seafood wholesaler during an immigration raid in Newark, New Jersey, was a U.S. citizen and military veteran.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka denounced the ICE raid, saying the military veteran "suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”

Regarding the raid, ICE stated they “may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting field work and may request identification to establish an individual’s identity.”

The seafood wholesaler's owner, Luis Janota, told WPIX in New York that his warehouse manager, who was also detained, was Puerto Rican. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and its residents are U.S. citizens.

“It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people — not every kind. Because they did not ask me for documentation for my American workers, Portuguese workers or white workers,” Janota told the station.

More deportations, worries over 'increased profiling'
ICE has stepped up arrests and deportations since Trump took office. While he had said he would prioritize violent criminals, his "border czar," Tom Homan, also said this week that arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions — which the administration calls collateral arrests — would occur.

On Sunday, almost half of the people arrested, 48%, had nonviolent offenses on their record or were people who had not committed any offense.

Being in the U.S. without legal status is a civil violation. Entering the country without inspection, between ports of entry or based on false statements — what is considered illegal entry — is a misdemeanor. Re-entering, or attempting to re-enter, is a felony.

The criteria for who is arrested and deported will soon be expanded, however. A bill awaiting Trump's signature, the Laken Riley Act, will allow the arrest and detention of people who are not legally in the country and have been charged — they do not have to be convicted — with burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or crimes that lead to death or serious bodily injury.