U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the arrest of several individuals identified as criminal illegal aliens over the past weekend. The agency stated that those arrested had been convicted of crimes such as murder, sexual assault of minors, rape, kidnapping, and other offenses in various locations across the United States.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin commented on the arrests: “While ICE law enforcement was being demonized at the Super Bowl, the heroic men and women of ICE continued risking their lives to arrest criminal illegal alien murderers, pedophiles, and rapists from our communities,” she said. “Despite smears from Hollywood, ICE is making our country safer every single day. 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S. This heated rhetoric about ICE law enforcement is leading to our officers facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them.”
The list of those arrested includes individuals from countries such as the Dominican Republic, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, Mexico, and Cuba. Convictions among those arrested range from murder in New York City to sexual assault on minors in Nevada and Missouri; rape in New York; gross sexual imposition in Ohio; sex with a minor in California; kidnapping and assault in Texas; aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Pennsylvania; resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in Virginia; driving while impaired and assaulting a government official in North Carolina; burglary in Texas and Florida; larceny in Virginia; and aggravated alien smuggling prosecuted by federal authorities.
ICE highlighted that 70 percent of its arrests involve individuals charged or convicted with crimes within the United States. The agency also noted an increase—over 1,300 percent—in assaults against its officers compared to previous periods.
More information about public safety threats apprehended by ICE can be found at WOW.DHS.gov.
