More Than 1,400 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Major Massachusetts Operation

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), together with other federal law enforcement agencies, arrested 1,406 illegal immigrant offenders between Sept. 4 and 30 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the agency said in an Oct. 16 statement.
The arrested individuals included rapists, murderers, child sex predators, and drug traffickers, ICE said.
“More than 600 illegal aliens arrested had significant criminal convictions or pending criminal charges for crimes committed in the United States or were known foreign fugitives,” ICE said.
Among the arrested were an El Salvadoran citizen convicted of indecent assault and assault to rape, a Brazilian with criminal pending charges including rape, an Indian national with pending charges for battery on a person over 14, a Laotian convicted of second-degree murder, and a Turkish national with pending charges for kidnapping….