12/06/2019
ICE HSI Houston announces year-end statistics for fiscal year 2019
HOUSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston — the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security that targets criminal and terrorist organizations that exploit America's travel, trade, financial and immigration systems — announced Friday its year-end statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2019.
Notable among the released stats from FY 2019 was a surge in the number of criminal arrests made and the value of counterfeit goods seized from the previous year.
A driving force behind the surge in criminal arrests was an increase of more than 265% in the number of human trafficking-related arrests. In FY 2018, HSI Houston made about 75 arrests related to human trafficking. In FY 2019, the number of human trafficking-related arrests ballooned to more than 200.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-houston-announces-year-end-statistics-fiscal-year-2019
