The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Harlingen field office in Texas arrested 238 illegal immigrants on June 18, setting a record for single-day targeted arrests for the division.
The office, located in the Rio Grande Valley, oversees the South Texas region. The individuals were arrested as part of an operation aimed at removing criminal illegal immigrants from communities to increase public safety, ICE said in a July 14 statement. The agency conducted the operation in partnership with local, state, and federal law enforcement officials.
Among the arrested are a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico convicted of sexual battery and attempted kidnapping, another Mexican national convicted of possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute the substance, and a Mexican criminal alleged to be a Paisas gang member with convictions for assault and possessing a controlled substance. …