FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday the start of “Operation Summer Heat 2.0,” a nationwide violent crime and narcotics crackdown that officials say will expand on last summer’s initiative credited with thousands of arrests, major drug seizures, and the recovery of hundreds of endangered children.

The nationwide operation is beginning three weeks earlier than the effort during President Donald Trump‘s first year in office, Patel said from a press conference on Tuesday, as he also announced a 35-defendant drug bust in West Virginia that involved the arrest of three illegal aliens.