DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal immigration authorities arrested several hundred criminal migrants in a massive Houston operation that spanned only several days.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation—which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2—was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country.
“In recent years, some of the world’s most dangerous fugitives, transnational gang members, and criminal aliens have taken advantage of the crisis at our nation’s southern border to illegally enter the U.S.,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston field office director Bret Bradford said in a prepared statement. “After illegally entering the country, many of these criminal aliens have gone on to commit violent crime and reign terror on law-abiding residents.”
