WASHINGTON – Final week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a sequence of focused enforcement operations throughout the nation. These operations focused public security threats, resembling convicted legal aliens and gang members, in addition to people who’ve violated our nation’s immigration legal guidelines, together with those that illegally re-entered the nation after being eliminated and immigration fugitives ordered eliminated by federal immigration judges.
ICE officers within the Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio and New York Metropolis areas of duty arrested greater than 680 people who pose a menace to public security, border safety or the integrity of our nation’s immigration system. Of these arrested, roughly 75 p.c had been legal aliens, convicted of crimes together with, however not restricted to, murder, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual assault of a minor, lewd and lascivious acts with a baby, indecent liberties with a minor, drug trafficking, battery, assault, DUI and weapons costs.
ICE conducts these sort of focused enforcement operations frequently and has for a few years. The main target of those enforcement operations is in step with the routine, focused arrests carried out by ICE’s Fugitive Operations groups each day.
President Trump has been clear in affirming the crucial mission of DHS in defending the nation and directed our Division to deal with eradicating unlawful aliens who’ve violated our immigration legal guidelines, with a selected deal with those that pose a menace to public security, have been charged with legal offenses, have dedicated immigration violations or have been deported and re-entered the nation illegally.
I commend the heroic efforts of the devoted officers of ICE’s Workplace of Enforcement and Removing Operations and those that supplied help from ICE Homeland Safety Investigations, the U.S. Marshals Service, in addition to cooperating state and native legislation enforcement businesses. These professionals put their lives on the road to guard our communities and nation. There isn’t any larger calling than to serve and shield our nation – a mission that the women and men of ICE carry out with professionalism and braveness each single day.
Truth Sheets
- ICE Fugitive Enforcement Operations
- 190 arrested in Georgia, the Carolinas, during ICE operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and immigration fugitives
- 235 arrested in 6 Midwestern states during ICE operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives
- ICE arrests 161 in Los Angeles-area operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives
- 41 arrested in New York-area ICE operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives
- 51 arrested in San Antonio-area ICE operation targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives