Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Houston office recently arrested 277 illegal immigrants who had been convicted of 751 crimes between them.
The arrests, made between April 6 and April 17, include “17 child predators, six murderers, 16 drug traffickers, 15 gang members or associates, 67 robbers, two foreign fugitives wanted for murder, and 11 aliens convicted of hit-and-run,” ICE said in an April 22 statement, adding that the 277 criminals have altogether entered the United States illegally 654 times.
Among the arrested are an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who is a member of the MS-13 gang and had been sentenced in her homeland to 228 years for homicide and other crimes, a Vietnamese illegal immigrant convicted of murder in Houston in 1991, a Mexican national convicted of sexual assault and drug possession, and an illegal immigrant from Honduras convicted of sexual assault on a child in Harris County, Texas….