Immigrants were arrested in Alabama this weekend and more arrests are expected soon, according to advocates, as President Trump’s mass deportation arrests began in cities around the nation.

Arrests were made Sunday at a home in Fultondale and in Huntsville, according to Allison Hamilton, the executive director of the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice.

That same day, arrest numbers started spiking in highly publicized operations in Atlanta, Dallas and, most prominently, Chicago, according to the Associated Press.

Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents and Fultondale police arrived at the house early on Sunday, she said.

One resident texted his English as a Second Language teacher to ask for help, which is how they heard of the arrests, Hamilton said.

“He messaged the chat that morning asking the teacher what to do because the police were outside his house, and he didn’t know what to do,” Hamilton said.

Officers entered the house with a warrant for one man, searched the building, and found a gun, according to Hamilton, so they detained several other men in the building.

Fultondale police told AL.com on Tuesday that three people were arrested on Sunday with outstanding reentry warrants and that guns were found.

Hamilton also said her group learned of another arrest on Sunday. That one was in Huntsville.

Officers there went looking for one person who was not home, and they arrested several men they found there instead, leaving a woman with a baby, she said.

“There were two men in the family that were asleep, and they pulled them out of their beds and detained them,” she said.

According to Hamilton, the arrests are a departure from the kind that occurred before President Trump’s term.

Hamilton said under Biden it was rare that anyone other than the specific person law enforcement was searching for would be taken from their homes.

This week, Trump increased arrest quotas for ICE officials to at least 1,200 to 1,500 per day, according to a report by the Washington Post.

In Alabama, there are an estimated 183,000 total immigrants in the state. A local immigration group estimates about 20 percent of those are undocumented, but exact numbers are not known.

Several former Alabama residents were recently deported to Guatemala, according to a report by CNN on Tuesday.

“It feels dangerous in the U.S. now,” Sara Tot-Botoz told CNN, after landing in her home country.

She said she had lived for 10 years in Alabama with her children and grandchildren before being pulled over by an officer about seven months ago.

Advocates in Alabama are preparing for more arrests in the days ahead.

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch on Monday told reporters he would work with ICE and provide transport vans, jail occupancy or personnel to assist the agency.

“We will work with them and assist them in any way we can. With personnel (and) if need be, I’ll make room in the jail for them until they’re processed and sent back,” Burch said.

Attorney Nathan Harris with Abogados Centro Legal in Hoover told AL.com he had heard through contacts in the community that ICE task forces were operating in the northern part of the state and would be for several days.

“This is not to cause alarm or suggest that ICE activity is not happening in other parts of the state as well. The main point is to stay vigilant and live your life with caution,” his office posted on Facebook Monday.

AL.com reporter Carol Robinson contributed to this report.