U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement arrested 51 illegal aliens in the Washington, D.C./Virginia area this past week. Of those arrested, 92 percent had been convicted of crimes in the United States – meaning they’d been arrested for a crime, tried, convicted and released back into the United States before ICE ultimately rounded them up.
One of the individuals mentioned in the report had been issued a final order of removal in January of 2015, but has been living in the shadow of ICE headquarters for nearly two years since.
ICE stated in a press release:
Of the 51 individuals arrested, 47 had previously been convicted of crimes like grand larceny and rape. Three of the four remaining individuals have pending charges against them; one is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice. One person was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in January 2015, making him a priority for civil immigration enforcement.
One Mexican citizen who was arrested in the sting had previously been convicted of grand larceny. Another man from India who was picked up in Fairfax County, Va., also had a criminal record, including a conviction for indecent liberties with a child under the age of 15.
A second Mexican man who was arrested in Manassas, Va., had a prior conviction for rape, while an illegal alien from Honduras had been found guilty of “abduction by force/intimidation.”
Three of the four arrested individuals who were without criminal records had charges pending against them, while the fourth was “the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.”
ICE reported that the arrested individuals hailed from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, Guatemala, South Korea, Iraq, Jamaica, India, Pakistan and Jordan.
THe latest string of arrests follows a similar operation late last month, when ICE picked up 101 illegal aliens with past convictions for drug trafficking, DUI, weapons violations, child sex offenses, identity theft, and other serious crimes. Based on the estimated 172,000 criminal aliens currently living in American communities, the 51 individuals arrested last week make up less than .03 percent of all illegal aliens who’ve been convicted of crimes in the United States.