ICE arrests 331 in Midwest during monthlong enforcement action
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) has announced that Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 331 individuals during a monthlong operation targeting criminal aliens and other immigration violators in six Midwestern states. This operation began May 9 and concluded Monday. It is part of the Obama administration’s efforts to arrest and remove convicted criminal aliens.
The arrests were made in the following six states: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri.
In Illinois, one of the states subject to the operation, 107 noncitizens were arrested. Ninety-six of the 107 have been convicted of crimes in the United States, including: robbery, possessing a stolen vehicle, aggravated DUI, rioting, aggravated sexual abuse, aggravated assault on an officer, and weapons offenses. The remaining 11 are agency priorities as recent border crossers. Twenty-one had previously been deported and illegally re-entered the United States.
The raids, as ordinarily is the case, had racial and gender impacts. 97 of the 107 were from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. The 106 males and one female arrested in the Chicago area are from the following countries: Belize (1), Bosnia (1), Ecuador (1), Guatemala (8), Honduras (3), Lithuania (3), Mexico (86), Poland (1), Senegal (1), and New Guinea (2). The majority were arrested in Chicago (47), Cicero (7) and Waukegan (5). Additional arrests took place in various Chicago suburbs.
KJ