370 convicted
criminal aliens and
immigration fugitives have been arrested following a three-day targeted enforcement operation by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
ICE officers located and arrested 347 aliens with prior criminal convictions including nine gang members and 16 convicted sex offenders. More than 56% of the
criminal aliens taken into custody had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes, such as armed robbery, drug trafficking, child abuse, sexual crimes against minors, aggravated assault, theft and forgery In addition, 51 of the individuals ICE officers took into custody were immigration fugitives, aliens with outstanding orders of deportation who had failed to leave the country.
ICE's Fugitive Operations Program is just one facet of the Department of Homeland Security's broader strategy to heighten the federal government's effectiveness at identifying and removing dangerous criminal aliens from the United States. Other initiatives that figure prominently in this effort are the Criminal Alien Program,
Secure Communities and the agency's partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies under
287(g).
The arrestees include: a 23-year-old man from Laos convicted of criminal sexual conduct involving the rape of a child; a 24-year-old Ukrainian convicted of theft, receiving stolen property, drug possession, assault, forgery, and disorderly conduct; a 24-year-old Liberian convicted of dealing cocaine, sexual abuse of a minor, and theft; a 25-year-old from Mexico and member of the Latin Kings gang who was convicted of theft, drug trafficking, and criminal mischief.
Largely as a result of these initiatives, ICE has so far this fiscal year removed a total of 142,526 criminal aliens from the United States, which is a record number.
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