ICE Busts 70 Criminal Aliens in Texas, Oklahoma Operation
by BOB PRICE
BreitBart.com
9 Jun 2017
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 70 criminal aliens in north Texas and southern Oklahoma during a three-day effort.
Three of the worst offenders were arrested in Texas, information obtained by Breitbart Texas from ICE officials revealed.
A 28-year-old member of the Eastside Homeboys street gang was arrested on June 2 by the Dallas Mobile Criminal Alien Team and Fugitive Operations Team. The Mexican national is in ICE custody pending removal. He had been convicted of possession of a controlled substance.
A Mexican national was arrested on June 1 in Paris, Texas. The same mobile operations team arrested a 34-year-old previously convicted of resisting arrest and transporting a deadly weapon. He is in ICE custody and will be removed by the agency.
A 40-year-old Mexican national was arrested by ERO officers on June 2 in Sherman, Texas. He had been convicted of possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated.
The majority of those arrested, 62 in number, were Mexican nationals. Three of the criminal aliens arrested were from El Salvador and one each from Cuba, Guatemala, Korea, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka.
Six arrested were women. The remainder were males ranging in age from 18 to 50.
In Oklahoma City, on June 3, ERO officers arrested a 27-year-old Mexican citizen who had been convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He had been deported previously and is now in ICE custody pending removal again.
In the fiscal year 2016, 92 criminal aliens who were removed from the country had previously been convicted of a criminal offense.
In a 12-day enforcement operation by ICE officers in Texas in late March, ERO officers arrested 150 criminal aliens. Immigration officers arrested 138 men and 12 women during operations conducted in multiple cities in central and south Texas. Nearly 90 percent of those arrested had criminal records that included convictions for aggravated assault with a weapon, aggravated sexual assault of a child, sexual assault, DUI, burglary, robbery, resisting an officer, cocaine possession, prostitution, fraud, simple assault, human smuggling, domestic violence, possession of dangerous drugs, and distribution of controlled substances.
Breitbart Texas reported on April 25 that a four-day ICE operation in the Texas Gulf Coast region led to the arrest of 95 criminal aliens. The targeted operation resulted in the arrests of criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and immigration fugitives in eight counties between Houston and Victoria, Texas. Of the 95 arrested 82 of the individuals who were arrested had criminal convictions for homicide, aggravated assault, assault, burglary of a vehicle, child abuse, domestic violence, cocaine possession, fraud, driving under the influence (DUI), drug trafficking, felony marijuana possession, illegal entry, larceny, possessing a controlled substance, and weapons possession. Officers picked up the remaining immigrants for illegally being present in the U.S. after removal and those with previous orders of removal from an immigration judge who did not leave the country.
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