by Bob Price
Amidst the turmoil surrounding the shooting of a Mexican national in Houston earlier this month, officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) branch continue to arrest and remove criminal aliens from the streets of the Bayou City. From July 1-15, ERO officers arrested nearly 260 criminal aliens. The arrests include illegal aliens with convictions for sex offenses, child sex offenses, aggravated assaults, burglary, robbery, theft, drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex trafficking, and other crimes that put the public in danger.
ICE officials revealed to Breitbart Texas that Houston ERO officers arrested 259 criminal aliens in the Houston Metropolitan Area during the first two weeks of July. Those arrested included dangerous gang members, including members of MS-13, Surenos-13, Tango Blast, Paisas, Southwest Cholos, Brown Pride Locos, Mara-18, and the Tiny Boys. Officials noted the 259 criminal aliens entered the U.S. illegally a total of 535 times (as a group). They had a combined total of 642 arrests. These included more than 400 offenses that “either harmed Americans/residents or endangered public safety.”
ICE officials told Breitbart that the 642 criminal convictions included charges of:
- 11 total sex offenses
- 4 child sex offenses
- 70 aggravated assault, assault, or battery convictions
- 77 burglary, robbery, or theft convictions
- 11 drug trafficking convictions
- 1 kidnapping conviction
- 3 sex trafficking convictions
- 10 hit-and-run convictions
- 20 convictions for weapons-related offenses
- 56 convictions for resisting arrest, fleeing from law enforcement, escape, or obstructing law enforcement
- 5 making terroristic threats convictions
- 130 DWI convictions including
- 6 hit-and-run DWIs
- 3 aliens convicted of 4 DWIs
- 7 aliens convicted of 3 DWIs
- 12 aliens convicted of 2 DWIs
- 10 trespassing convictions
- 11 alien smuggling convictions
- 13 domestic violence convictions
- 19 forgery, fraud convictions
- 41 possession of a controlled substance convictions
ICE officials said a sample of the significant public safety threats arrested by ICE Houston during the first half of July were: