No major law enforcement effort is without mishaps, most notably so when criminals, faced with arrest, try to attack officers or flee, in a vehicle or on foot. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) is no exception, and the Left is still shouting about two such high-profile events, both shootings, one in Maine, one in Texas.
Those events notwithstanding, ICE is still out there rounding up criminal illegal aliens. Now, in one day in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, ICE hit a new record: two hundred twenty-eight goblins busted in one day, most (if not all) of them with criminal backgrounds.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers working with law enforcement through its 287(g) program made the largest single day arrest of 228 people in the Rio Grande Valley last month without any incident or violence.
In a change, ICE is announcing major arrests and removal successes roughly one month after they occurred.
ICE announced the one day record this week as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Rangers to investigate an ICE fatal shooting in Houston. It also did so as Houston Mayor John Whitmire called for a 90-day moratorium on ICE enforcement actions to focus on training law enforcement to prevent further shootings.
A congressional field hearing is scheduled for the end of the month in Houston to address concerns related to last week’s fatal shooting of a Mexican national who was in the country illegally.
Those cases will work through the appropriate due process, and that's as it should be. But take a look at what ICE scooped up in South Texas:
Among those arrested were criminal illegal foreign nationals with convictions for attempted kidnapping, sexual battery and drug possession as well as an alleged Paisas gang member. The gang member’s arrests and convictions include assault causing bodily injury, possession of a controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and multiple illegal reentry charges.
Many arrested face additional criminal charges for illegally reentering the U.S. more than once.
Key arrests include Mexican nationals convicted of attempted kidnapping, sexual battery, collision involving injury, theft, felony possession of a controlled substance, amphetamine trafficking, unlawfully carrying a weapon, driving under the influence of liquor, hit and run, obstructing police, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, property theft and multiple illegal entry and reentry charges.
These are people that anti-ICE, pro-illegal alien shouters, along with most of the Democrat Party, don't want to see ejected from the United States.
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We must note that "many" of them have entered illegally more than once, making that an automatic felony charge.
This is what ICE is supposed to be doing, and anyone who has a lick of sense should support them in this. And, yes, this is a major campaign point for the sure-to-be-hard-fought reelection later this year. In any debate, in any discussion, in any interview, every Republican candidate should point to events like this: Point out that ICE has swept up people "...convicted of attempted kidnapping, sexual battery, collision involving injury, theft, felony possession of a controlled substance" and so forth, and point out, "Democrats want to keep these people in the United States." That's all they need to say. "Democrats want to keep these people in the United States."
And, yes, once more, this is precisely what we voted for.
Editor’s Note: Democrats are fanning the flames and raising the rhetoric by comparing ICE to the Gestapo, fascists, and secret police.
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