ICE arrests 2,059 criminals due for deportation
Source: Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON – Federal authorities, under pressure from Congress to crack down on foreigners with criminal records who have eluded deportation, announced thousands of arrests on Monday.
Operation Cross Check resulted in the arrest of 2,059 convicted criminals who are subject to removal from the United States. The operation ran from March 1 to March 5. More than 1,000 of those arrested have felony convictions, including manslaughter, child pornography, robbery, kidnapping and rape.
These are the worst of the worst criminals. At least 1,013 of these had multiple criminal convictions,” said Sarah Saldaña, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and until two months ago, the Dallas-based U.S. attorney. “These are not people we want out in our neighborhoods.”
Some 58 are known gang members, and 89 are convicted sex offenders. Roughly a quarter of those arrested had previously been deported and re-entered the United States illegally and 163 of those 476 will be charged with illegal re-entry after deportation, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison.
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