ICE Completes Crackdown on Gangs: Arrested 445 Foreign Nationals
Posted by Spencer Raley | May 11, 2017 | Crime, Immigration Blog Posts, Trump Administration | 7 |
Over the past six weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents engaged in the largest Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement surge ever attempted against criminal gangs. According to an ICE press release, the operation targeted “gang members and associates involved in transnational criminal activity, including drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, human smuggling and sex trafficking, murder and racketeering.”
The operation was highly successful, leading to 1,378 total arrests, including 445 non-citizen foreign nationals. Of those, 222 were members of the highly dangerous, foreign-based MS-13 or Sureños gangs. In addition, three of the suspects previously received deferred action under former President Obama’s controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
http://immigrationreform.com/2017/05/11/ice-completed-crackdown-on-gangs-arrested-445-foreign-nationals/
