Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), together with several federal law enforcement agencies, announced on April 4 it had arrested 133 illegal immigrants during an enforcement operation in New York.
The operation, conducted between March 24 and 28, focused on “criminal illegal alien offenders and other immigration violators in western, central, and northern New York to bolster public safety, national security, and border security,” ICE said in a statement.
Twenty of those arrested had prior criminal convictions or charges, including three convicted of homicide. Nine of those arrested had been previously removed from the country.
The arrests include a 49-year-old illegal immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago convicted of murder, a 50-year-old Chinese illegal immigrant convicted of assault, and a 66-year-old illegal from the Dominican Republic convicted of sexual conduct with a child….