Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 356 illegal immigrants from over 40 different gangs in Texas’s Houston area during the first six months under the Trump administration, the agency said in an Aug. 8 statement.
The gang members have been convicted of 1,685 crimes, including homicide, abduction, sexual assault, illegal entry, unlawful possession of a firearm, aggravated assault, sexual assault of a child, smuggling, drug trafficking, promotion of child pornography, arson, and sex trafficking, ICE said.
Collectively, they have illegally entered the United States 1,434 times, with one of the criminals entering the country 40 times, it added.
A criminal from El Salvador was convicted of sexual indecency with a child while he was in the United States, the agency said. An MS-13 gang member, also from El Salvador, was convicted of homicide….