HOUSTON, Texas — Federal officers arrested 45 illegal immigrants in the Houston area during a five-day operation. Forty-two had previous criminal convictions and 15 were previously deported.
Officers and agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had a busy year in 2017. New leadership set up the agency to increase immigration enforcement efforts.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector in South Texas stopped two dangerous, previously-deported illegal immigrants from re-entering the U.S.
Immigration officers based in New York City arrested 42 criminal aliens released by sanctuary jurisdictions. Thirteen other foreign nationals were also arrested as part of a six-day targeted operation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Border Patrol agents in Texas and California stopped a convicted child rapist and a fugitive wanted for an alleged sexual assault after they illegally crossed from Mexico.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested violent felons, an MS-13 gang member, and a wanted child rapist after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested 32 criminal aliens previously convicted of sex crimes in the sanctuary jurisdiction of Long Island, New York. The arrests came during Operation SOAR (Sex Offender Alien Removal), a 10-day operation that ended on August 3.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested several criminal aliens, fugitives, and previously deported sex offenders who illegally reentered the U.S.
Immigration officers arrested 22 criminal aliens during a six-week targeted operation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The arrests included a fugitive alleged murderer from Mexico and a previously deported child molester.
