U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has become very, very busy since Donald Trump became president again and installed Border Czar Tom Homan to help clean up the massive illegal immigration mess that Joe Biden made.
Their latest operating theater: Houston, Texas, where they’ve nabbed over 400 “undocumented people”—many with extensive and disturbing criminal records. These are the kinds of folks Democrats keep going to bat for—not law-abiding Americans.
During the operation, ICE officers targeted some of the most dangerous criminals, including an illegal migrant wanted in Colombia on murder charges.
Fox News exclusively embedded with officers for 10 hours as ICE officers arrested an illegal alien they say is wanted for murder in Colombia, at his apartment complex.
"He has a homicide conviction in Colombia and was sentenced to 21 years there," ICE Houston Director Bret Bradford said. "He entered the United States illegally in February of 2024 was given a court date for an immigration hearing and released. He did not show up for that court date, so in March of this year, he was ordered removed by an immigration judge here in the United States.
🚨 ICE Houston Apprehends High-Profile Migrant Criminals!
— Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWPH) May 12, 2025
400+ illegal aliens were arrested in a weeklong effort to crack down on migrant crime.
Let’s keep up the good work! pic.twitter.com/Ke5ZP8umUM
Expect progressives to start immediately whining about how these are just regular working “Texas mothers and fathers” who are just working toward a better life. At least some of them certainly don’t seem to fit that bill:
Junior Alejandro Chan Lopez
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) May 12, 2025
⚖️Harris County, Texas, conviction | Aggravated assault with deadly weapon
🌎29-year-old Honduran national
🔗Arrested by ICE Houston pic.twitter.com/CN42Pdv3dX
Press Wail Over 'Undocumented Grandmother' Facing Deportation, Then the Rest of the Story Comes Out
Not surprisingly, a whole bunch of them don’t seem like the type of people we want in our country:
Of the 422 arrests, 262 have criminal convictions, 34 have pending convictions, 126 have other immigration violations, and 229 had final orders of removal, according to ICE.
Another illegal alien removed during the operation was a 72-year-old migrant from Mexico who was ordered removed from the U.S. in 2018, and has been convicted of homicide, robbery, shoplifting and assault.
What the Democrats don’t seem to get is that the administration is not just picking up random people off the street: they’re focused on getting the criminals out, and the Houston ICE Field Office has an operation center with analysts dedicated to ferreting out the bad guys. "They are doing the database research to get the worst of the worst, the ones who have the most significant threat to public safety," said ICE Houston Director Bret Bradford.
Donald Trump ran his campaign on undoing the disastrous border legacy of Biden, and that is exactly what he’s doing. The corrupt media and the progressives keep trying to convince us that taking arsonists, rapists, looters and murderers to account is somehow cruel, but their gaslighting effort is not working.
What was cruel—to Americans—was letting them in in the first place.
Breakdown of Arrests:
Criminal Convictions: 262
Pending convictions: 34
Other Immigration Violations: 126
Final Orders of Removal: 229
Breakdown of Criminal Convictions:
Aggravated Assault: 24
Assault: 35
Burglary: 6
Driving While Intoxicated: 48
Narcotics-related Offenses: 37
Forgery/Fraud: 10
Obstruction/Resisting Arrest: 21
Murder: 1
Robbery: 6
Sexual Assault (adult): 6
Sexual Assault-Child/Minor: 5
Smuggling Aliens: 10
Terroristic Threat: 5
Vehicle Theft: 6
Weapons Offense: 9
Gang Members/Affiliates Arrested: 5
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