ICE Arrests 3,100 Criminals Over the Last Week

Restrictionists have portrayed the Obama Administration's prosecutorial discretion policy as an amnesty and an end to serious immigration enforcement. ICE is reminding people, however, that the new policy is about concentrating resources on criminal deportations. And a weeklong operation shows they're doing just that. From ICE's press release regarding the operation:

As part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, the agency announced today the results of a six-day national "Cross Check" enforcement operation-which led to the arrest of more than 3,100 convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and immigration violators.

"The results of this targeted enforcement operation underscore ICE's ongoing commitment and focus on the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens and those that game our nation's immigration system," said ICE Director John Morton. "Because of the tireless efforts and teamwork of ICE officers and agents in tracking down criminal aliens and fugitives, there are 3,168 fewer criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators in our neighborhoods across the country."

This six-day operation, the largest of its kind, involved the collaboration of more than 1,900 ICE officers and agents from all of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations' (ERO) 24 field offices, assistance from ICE Homeland Security Investigations as well as coordination with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners throughout the United States. Arrests occurred in all 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, three U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.

ERO officers arrested 2,834 individuals that had prior criminal convictions including at least 1,063 aliens who had multiple criminal convictions. Of those arrested, had felony convictions including murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, terroristic threats, drug trafficking, child abuse, battery on a child, sexual crimes against minors, and aggravated assault. Of the total 2,834 criminal aliens arrested, 50 were gang members and 149 were convicted sex offenders.

Comments

[Another Voice]

ICE could turned up results like this every week but the restrictionists will not change their tune ever....for them is deport them all or nothing. Tell them Jack, as long as the dominate they public conversation and the republican base it will remain so...

[George Chell]

This is an appropriate policy. If congres wants to spare DHS of the sequester that may come next january, it should first convince Grover Norquist to raise taxes.