Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out arrests in a number of sanctuary cities across the United States, including arrests of individuals convicted on rape and kidnapping charges, according to an announcement Monday.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that ICE has “successfully detained dangerous criminal illegal aliens in Sanctuary jurisdictions,” referring to cities and municipalities that have laws limiting local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
“No American wants criminal illegal aliens loose on America’s streets and neither should our leaders who represent them,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement.
DHS did not provide an exact figure on how many people were arrested or a timeline but said that enforcement efforts were carried out in the cities of Philadelphia and Newark, and in the states of Massachusetts and California….