PHILADELPHIA — Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 84 individuals during a weeklong operation that concluded May 7 targeting criminal aliens and other immigration violators.
This enforcement operation, which concluded Saturday, is the latest effort by ICE to prioritize the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens and other enforcement priorities living illegally in the United States.
All of those arrested have been convicted of crimes in the United States, or otherwise fall within ICE’s enforcement priorities for deportation. Convictions include the following crimes: corruption of a minor, child pornography offenses, indecent assault, robbery, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, DUI, cocaine and heroin possession, felony fraud, among other crimes.
Following are criminal summaries of four aliens arrested during this operation:
- A 30-year-old Indian national with prior convictions for corruption of minors. He was arrested in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and remains in ICE custody pending a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
- A 39-year-old Jamaican national with prior convictions for possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance. He was arrested May 6 at Philadelphia residence after being released from local custody and remains in ICE custody pending a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
- A 47-year-old Argentinian national with prior convictions for child pornography. He was arrested in Philadelphia and remains in ICE custody pending a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
- A 37-year-old Guatemalan national with prior convictions for corruption of a minor and indecent assault and is a registered sex offender. He was arrested in Philadelphia and remains in ICE custody pending a hearing before a federal immigration judge.
"ICE’s targeted immigration-enforcement operations prioritize arresting convicted criminals and public-safety threats," said Thomas Decker, field office director for ERO Philadelphia. "By focusing our resources on these most egregious offenders, we immediately improve public safety in our communities.”
Those arrested are nationals of the following countries: Mexico, Uruguay, Kenya, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Liberia, Honduras, Brazil, Ghana, India, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia and Germany.
Arrests were made in throughout the region in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia.
All of the targets in this operation met the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) are immigration enforcement priorities as established in DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's 2014 memorandum. Priority 1 targets include threats to national security, criminal street gang members, convicted felons, and aggravated felons. Priority 2 targets include convictions for three or more misdemeanors or convictions for significant misdemeanors, including DUIs.
Secretary Johnson has directed ICE to prioritize the use of enforcement personnel, detention space, and removal assets to support the Department's civil immigration enforcement priorities. ICE continues to work with local law enforcement partners to uphold public safety, while taking dangerous criminals out of our communities.
In fiscal year 2015, ICE conducted 235,413 removals nationwide. Ninety-one percent of individuals removed from the interior of the United States had previously been convicted of a criminal offense.
ICE is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that targets serious criminal aliens who present the greatest risk to the security of our communities, such as those charged with or convicted of homicide, rape, robbery, kidnapping, major drug offenses and threats to national security.
10 comments:
A waste of time and money. Obama, the traitor, will let them go.
This is a special moment for me, knowing that 84 of the 20,000 criminal aliens that Obama released onto our streets are now back in custody.
At least for now.
obama HAS to give Hillary something to point to when Trump talks the truth about illegal immigration.
"See!!! We ARE serious about getting bad (fill in the blank with the latest euphemism for foreign criminals)!!". Anyone who can't see that is racist!!!
84 down, 55,000 to go. (like stepping on an ant hill and believing you just killed all the ants). That's progress! See!?? We ARE doing everything we can! Stop listening to that racist crap from citizens who are angry that their daughter was raped and killed by a guy we deported 5 TIMES. Its their racism and bigotry that we are trying to change!! If we would just give them some SSI money, a house, and some cash, they would be really good killers, I mean, citizens.
If you vote for either Democratic loser, just slip your paycheck into the slot where you slide your ballot. That will be, figuratively, what you will be doing.
That also assumes you GET a paycheck.
And assumes you're registered to vote.
And assumes your lobotomy scar hasn't healed yet.
Keep cheering.
Those 84 moved into a blacked out house on Delaware Avenue
That is what I was going to say. Why bother, they will just be turned loose again. These old feel good stories of "arrests" don't really hold much water when weeks later they will all be turned loose again to prey on us once again. How many murders, drunk drivers, rapists, etc... were turned loose in the last batch? Scores.
They will be let loose after booking. So, why bother???
You love our govt and all police. Stop pretending. Keep cheering.
Catch & release operation for publicity. They'll be back in circulation quickly.
Remember that part of the oath of office where the president promises to faithfully execute the laws? You might but Obama could care less.
A waste of my money because nobody is going anywhere.They gotta justify their job so more grant money is sent.
They have already been released to commit more crime.
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