ICE Arrests Over 3,100 Illegal Aliens in Nationwide Sweep
- Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:00pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP/The Blaze) — The White House said Monday it arrested more than 3,100 immigrants who were illegally in the country and who were convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered fugitives or threats to national security.
The arrests were the result of an intense six-day nationwide sweep, the third and largest of its kind, codenamed “Operation Cross Check.”
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“The results of this targeted enforcement operation underscore ICE’s [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ongoing commitment and focus on the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens and those that game our nation’s immigration system,” ICE Director John Morton said in a release.
“Because of the tireless efforts and teamwork of ICE officers and agents in tracking down criminal aliens and fugitives, there are 3,168 fewer criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators in our neighborhoods across the country,” he added.
ICE agents escort a criminal alien after arrest in Los Angeles.
U.S. ICE said the sweep included every state and involved more than 1,900 of the agency’s officers and agents.
The sweep comes nearly a year after ICE pledged to focus on deporting illegal immigrants with serious criminal histories and those who posed national security threats, while going easier on many who stay out of trouble.
Officials said most of those arrested had entered the country illegally. Others had violated the terms for legally being in the United States and were subject to deportation.
More than 1,000 of the people arrested had multiple criminal convictions. The most severe cases included murder, manslaughter, drug trafficking, and sexual crimes against minors.
“These are people we do not want roaming our streets,” Morton said at a news conference, according to Reuters.
The totals included an estimated 50 gang members and 149 convicted sex offenders. The cases of at least 204 of them were referred to federal prosecutors for a variety of serious charges, including illegal re-entry after deportation, a felony that can carry up to 20 years in prison.
Watch Operation Cross Check — Los Angeles (via dvidshub.com):
Morton issued guidelines in June that suggested the agency would ease up on illegal immigrants who are military veterans, elderly, in the United States since childhood or had relatives who were citizens or legal residents. In August, the Department of Homeland Security announced a review of about 300,000 cases in the nation’s clogged immigration courts aimed at giving reprieves to the lowest-priority offenders.
Latinos and other immigrant communities have eyed the pledges warily as the Obama administration has removed record numbers of illegal immigrants – nearly 400,000 in each of the last three years, according to the Associated Press.
ICE agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday
The agents participating in last week’s sweeps typically knock on doors early in the morning before people go to work.
The sweep included 116 different nationalities and represented the third such sweep under the program called Operation Cross Check. The last sweep resulted in the arrest of about 2,900 people.
Watch Operation Cross Check — Detroit (via dvidshub.net):
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (139)
deathspiral
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:35pmDang! There goes 3,100 votes for ‘you know who’. We can only expect many more such “shows’ over next few months so they can claim “look at all that we have done.” Politics in US have become very sad indeed. But, trying to be more positive…hey everyone…this November, remember “R” not “D”. pretty simple really. Or, freedom’s death spiral will continue for our beloved country.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:14amWell I’m going out on a limb here …
I guess if they cant arrest …
THE ONE THEY WANT…..!
The Latino-American.. .George Zimmerman
I guess 3,100 illegal’s will have to do…
Interesting side note..
Report Post »Israel considers one Israeli equal
to a Thousand Palestinians .
AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:21amI beg to differ. I see Hispanics distancing themselves from blacks politically. BHO knows that hispanics displace blacks. City after city this is true. Hispanics have a work ethic. They are family-oriented. The stick together. Leftist blacks initially thought hispanics were allies to get rid of whitey. Now they know it is not true. Hispanics and asians are running blacks out all over the country. Blacks know they are a shrinking percentage of the U.S. population. Hispanic gangs are a problem, no doubt, but most decent hispanics don’t care for gangs at all. Most hispanics take great pride in working and supporting their families.
BHO is deporting this competition. Things are not as they seem.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:22amI’d feel a little better about this story , if they couldn’t just cross back in next week….. What an effin joke.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:46am90% of those arrested are released into the U.S.
Of those released, 40% commit additional crimes.
ICE’s 3,400 beds is being reduced by 1,200 beds, which means releases will necessarily skyrocket.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:21amUh, oh! Romney ain’t going to be too happy about this. He was hoping they would “self deport”. And don’t tell Gingrich, he might give them an appointment to some “community council” and determine if praying to Jesus for 25 years is reason enough to stay here… (shaking head in disappointment).
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 7:59amGee…Now only 16,987,659 to go! 3100? A drop in the bucket. Just STUPID. Hell I could round up that many in a week by myself. What a BS “were doing something” story to apease the masses.
Sheeple wake up!
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:15amQue? No hable torre caca.
Report Post »ThemDemsLie2much
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:19amSawbuck, any facts to back up your points? Isreal, meaning everyone? What is the source for this info?
Report Post »Side note? Was it Poll?
WTF does Isreal have to do with illegal Democrats?
Besides, these were Black Hispanics not White Hispanics.
SoupSammich
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:40am@ Demslie-
Report Post »The Israeli’s will trade one soldier held in captivity for 1000 Paleostinians. Last year…oogle it.
fixmfast
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:43amDang yourself, you stole my thunder. As soon as I saw the headline it was the first thing I thought of. I don’t know why everyone is so happy about them being arrested though. They will just be released and there will probably be 3,100 lawsuits for false imprisonment and the govt will settle out of court with billions of dollars and amnesty. Heck, Obama will probably recruit them for his private army.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:05amBet they rounded them up to make sure they are registered to vote.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:10am“We can only expect many more such “shows’ over next few months so they can claim “look at all that we have done.”
Pretty much
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:43amWow. Only 1000 times that many more to go. You’re on a roll now.
Report Post »Inlandmar2
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:28amNot to worry….They all will be released in a couple of hours, but only if they promise to appear in court. LMAO Nothing more than window dressing by the Idiot in Chief.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:56pm“ICE Arrests Over 3,100 Illegal Aliens in Nationwide Sweep”
In further news, Home Depot parking lots curiously empty.
Report Post »Leopold
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:21pmIf Obama wins the next election, guess what!
I bet these will all be released.
Do not trust anything that looks like he is actually doing things because he has seen the light.
This is nothing but gimmickry.
That will be reflected in lower unemployment #s.
Some promises of tax relief.
He will even blame God for higher gas prices if he could.
And if his enemies would only let him he would finally lower the sea and heal the land.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:36pmIf they promise to vote a straight Democratic Ticket Napolitano well have them released.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 4:31pm.
Report Post »So one day ICE arrests 3100 illegals.
The next day, Janet Napolitano issues
“Unlawful presence waivers” to illegals.
Is this some kind of sick joke?
oldguy99
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:20pm3,100 down-30,000,000 to go. Put abounty on the people that hire,or support them, they will leave then.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 11:36pm3100 is nothing. Democrats always win the “dead people” vote.
Report Post »jtmfc
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 4:31pmIt”s strange. after all the 30 plus months in office, Obama and Holder blocked ICE raids, while cutting programs training police departments, in how to deal with illegal alien lawbreakers. Now, months before a National election, they decide to act and the job they were supposed to do from day one.. . Is this another of Obama’s catch and release programs? He’ll look like a hero to American citizens for rounding up illegals, and when he orders the illegal released without making it public, he gains the gratitude of the illegals. and their votes. Please, don‘t tell me they can’t vote for we know full well they do, with the help of some groups. Is that why Holder wants to block a Valid ID law, which would put an end to the fraud we saw in 2008? And we thought Clinton was slick. He’s an amateur compared to some in DC..
Report Post »YouSayBlahBlah
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 8:01pmThose 3100 were probably planning on voting R in November. The other 10-15 million must be voting D, so thats ok.
They said arrested not arrested AND deported. These 3100 will get out and spread the word to vote D or else.
Report Post »possom
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:31pmWow 3,100 somebody’s not doing their job.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 12:24amthat would be the daily count if we had ice agents sitting in front of the home depot but then again this is all for show and not results
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 1:26amExactly.
The Tucson sector Border Patrol union local 2544 on the number of illegal aliens in our nation: “There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country by many estimates, but the real numbers could be much higher and the numbers increase every day because our borders are not secure (no matter what the politicians tell you – don’t believe them for a second)”
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:18pmObama Is On Pace To Deport More Immigrants Through His First Term Than Bush Did In His Entire Presidency
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-21/politics/30183509_1_immigrants-with-criminal-records-unauthorized-immigrant-illegal-immigrants#ixzz1qwZng5jA
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:35pmYeah Bush sucked too……..so what. 44 billion dollars for HLS and they round up 3000 illegals. What a bargain!
Report Post »campt1
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:14pmOnly 14,700,000 to go. Get busy!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:21pmi bet they only deport a 100 and let the rest go
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:12pmI heard they got a check, a new Chevy and some guns to run across the border.
Report Post »ct-lady
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:11pmIt is great they arrested all these people and will deport them but they will be back illegally again. I read of one man committing serious crimes who came back 3 times and is now in jail here.They should be put in jail here and their country charged for their confinement.. Build a jail if we must.
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:24pmBuild a jail we Much… We must and we will much… about … that … be committed.
Report Post »TORCH9
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:05pmBlah, blah, blah. I don’t care who they know or what they do….DEPORT THEM
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:24pmtry this…………..lose your business license for 6 months{close} for hiring illegals…..fined 100,000 dollars for renting to them………….no job , no place to live ….self deporting……………doesn’t cost americans a dime
Report Post »Azalea
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:48pmWow! What a “massive round up”! Woo Hoo! Yes, 3100 illegal aliens who actually committed crimes! Excuse me? ALL of them committed a crime against America by coming here in the first place uninvited!
3100 in the massive number of Millions of Illegals? Why should 3100 impress us?
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:55pmBecause it took 6 days and 10.000.000 $ to do it.
Report Post »Lt_Scrounge
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:27pmThey could’ve saved a lot of time and money by simply fencing in my old neighborhood in Phoenix and going house to house. Probably would’ve gotten 3-4 times as many in just a few hours. The quickest way to keep these people out of the country is to lock them up for a number of months BEFORE deporting them. Increase the number of months the sit in custody a couple of months each time that they’re caught. Eventually, they’ll decide staying in their home countries is better than sitting in a US jail. Sheriff Arpaio has plenty of space in the desert outside of Phoenix and would be more than happy to throw up some more razor wire topped chain link fencing and pitch a few more tents.
Report Post »brknhrt
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:16pmPeople just don’t think about the fact that every illegal that has a job is using a stolen SS number. Possible your child’s or a one from a deceased love one. They are cockroaches and should be exterminated.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:46pmHolder will let them go to run guns.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:01pmIn the late 1800′s When you were released from the
Report Post »WV prison in Moundsville the state would
give you 10.00 $ and your choice of a horse or a winchester rifle.
blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:44pmYou can‘t take Barry’s votes away….woah!, heeeey whacho doin’?
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:40pm“3,100 immigrants who were illegally in the country and who were convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered fugitives or threats to national security.”
I’m pretty sure being here illegally is a crime itself, hence the word ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:32pmDo not do anything for Years… then make a Sweep, in order to provoke an OutRage!
More ObamaVille games!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:43pmSomewhere BIG SIS is sitting somewhere and smirking
Sorry NOT impressed—-Sat on your hands for THREE years and NOW you catch 3000???
ANYTHING to divert OFF of FAST & FURIOUS
Just saw Obummer interviewed for half time during NCAA
Verbal diarrhea!!!
I thought the guy interviewing him was going to TINGLE OUT.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:58pmThey needed more IRS workers, so round em up, and get them to auditing YOUR returns. Who better to catch a theif, or the average taxper, than an Alien (they got ray guns)
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:49amelection year……..
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:29pmWhy did they do it?…Barry needs them as registered voters as soon as possible…..
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:26pmAcorn is out of buisness, but SEIU is still booming.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:29pmMaybe one of them can be president someday. Or maybe ICE can do this 3000 more times and finally be able to say they did a good job? Until then, they are lazy government workers following a criminal in chief.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:29pmIf they could do that on a daily basis, it would be considered a GOOD START! But since this is just a show for the ‘proles, who cares????
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:43pm3100?…..Whoopty doo.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:54pmI agree…3100 a day would be a start.
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:27pmIt must have been a tiny broom to only catch 3100 in a nationwide sweep.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:27pmHLS at a cost of $44 billion comes up with 3000 illegals…… Big F_en deal
Report Post »I could come up with 3000 illegals in Tampa for a few hundred dollars in a afternoon
CatB
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:34pmNo doubt .. doesn’t sound like they tried too hard .. just enough to make a “show” but not enough to make a difference. You are right about Tampa .. heck I live in a little beach town south of there and you can go to any home improvement store and pick up a bunch .. any morning. Or find a building site … they built two homes across from me and the builder bragged that he uses illegals.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:16pmCATB If you call ICE in Tampa to report illegals they treat you like the criminal
Report Post »Lt_Scrounge
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:32pmFor $20 a head, you could pick up a few dozen in a couple of hours outside half of the Home Depots in Phoenix. Don‘t seem to have that much of a problem outside of the Lowe’s.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:25pmI don’t even know if I believe this???!!!
Report Post »TRUMPETCALL
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:05amExactly!
It is a typical tactic – just like when we’d read about a “giant cocaine bust” to convey the idea that some progress was being made in the “war on drugs.”
Meanwhile….. an EXPONENTIAL amount of cocaine was being moved into America – by our own CIA black ops!
There’s a word for it…. “token”…. I think….
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:20pmWere they deported, no mention of that.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:24pmOf COURSE NOT!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:28pmDoubt it .. Obama voters.
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:49pmNo, but they are very offended because the racist ICE agents used American flags on their uniforms and spoke to them in English…..
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:03pmPretty sure they found some beds for them, too scared to violate their “civil rights”!
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:19pmHey!!!! I just figured it out!!! It must be an election year!!! Their usefulness came to an end. But then the communists hate all what they so lovingly call “monkeys” as soon as the blacks usefulness is over they will be next. All you have to do is read the history of their movement and it is really not all that long.
Report Post »burnbabylon
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 11:01pmTrue. Useful idiots, when no longer useful, will be re-classified as useless eaters.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:19pmWhy would Obama do this when they just announced they don’t have enough beds to house new illegal immigrants anyway, and they are going to just start letting them go free. Add to that, that Obama’s new budget will decrease these beds in the future. Why are we always being played by this administration and the democrats.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:25pmIt’s all for show. Bet they quietly let them go eventually.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:27pmThis is a catch and release program. And even if they’re “deported”, they’ll be back to work inside of a month.
Report Post »You asked why the regressive partei constantly plays the American public….it’s because YOU LET THEM!!!
VoteRightDammit
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:17pm“ICE Arrests Over 3,100 Illegal Aliens in Nationwide Sweep”
Yep. Election season is in full swing.
All cheer our Leadur! He DESERVES another 4 years ……..
Report Post »mgcre
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:24pmOn the contrar! It’s really the opposite. Remember, he doesn’t take the blame for anything. Therefore, it is our unjust laws that cause this to occur. He is trying to incite the legal and illegal latinos to start disobedience leading to riots.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:33pmYep…Obama ..Will now be able to count his accomplishments on both hands in his next 60 minuite interview..Of course he will save this for a police union campaign speech ..Then will roll out his law enforcement accomplishments..
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:45pmWe got that many in one county in this state, most likely.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:16pmDo I smell an election coming up? This is why they have done this, to make themselves look good.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 9:22amWhy not arrest the other 20 million illegals running about our country?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:14pmGotta love an election year. If any are indeed deported, I fully expect them to be re-admitted after O is fraudulently re-elected in November. Assuming illegals actually want to return to this country. I would think even they could see where this country is heading.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:04pmWas Obama one of them?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:17pmWe can only dream … now I would like to know .. are they really going to deport them .. or is Obama going to make them VOTERS?
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 3:26pmIf we are lucky, maybe the clown and his family can be deported to Kenya in November!
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