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    ICE arrests nearly 1,400 in major anti-gang operation

    ICE arrests nearly 1,400 in major anti-gang operation

    11 May 2017

    Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 1,378 people over the last six weeks in a massive gang-related operation.

    Of those, 1,095 were confirmed as gang members, ICE said, while the remaining 238 "were arrested on either criminal or administrative charges".

    More than 900 of the arrested were US citizens. Acting director Thomas Homan said "violent criminal street gangs are the biggest threat facing our communities". The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit carried out the operation, its largest to date.

    ICE said it was targeting gang members and "associates" involved in
    cross-border criminal activity - including drug and weapons smuggling, sex trafficking and murder.

    During the six-week operation, 238 firearms were seized, alongside almost 600lb (270kg) in mixed drugs, and almost half a million dollars in cash.

    Those arrested were considered "confirmed" as gang members, ICE said, if they admitted to membership, had been convicted of gang-related offences, had tattoos of a specific gang, or were identified "by a reliable source".



    Of the 1,378 people arrested 137 were affiliated with the Bloods gang of Los Angeles, 104 were part of the Crips, also of Los Angeles, 118 with the Surenos, a Mexican-American affiliation,
    104 with MS-13, born in LA but with roots in El Salvador, 283 had no gang affiliation.

    ICE also said that 10 people arrested had entered the US as unaccompanied minors - and nine of them were gang members. Another three had been part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) scheme - so called "dreamers", or undocumented immigrants who arrived as children who are allowed to stay.

    "Aliens granted DACA who are found to pose a threat to national security or public safety may have their deferred action terminated at any time and the Department of Homeland Security may seek their removal from the United States," ICE said in its press release- adding that about 1,500 people have been deported for that reason since 2012.

    The large-scale operation was part of Operation Community Shield, an ongoing programme which targets gang members with
    the help of federal and local law enforcement agencie.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39891319

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    DREAMers Arrested in Nationwide Gang Crackdown

    by JOHN BINDER
    11 May 2017
    Washington, D.C.

    Federal immigration officials arrested nearly 1,400 gang members in a nationwide 6-week operation, including illegal immigrants gang members who had protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

    Altogether, 1,378 gang members were arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, 1,098 of which already have federal or state criminal charges against them, according to a news release. Twenty-one of the members had pending murder charges against them, while another seven were facing rape allegations. The other 280 were arrested for being in the U.S. illegally.

    Three of the gang members arrested in the ICE operation had protected status as illegal immigrants under the Obama-era DACA program. Since DACA’s inception, more than 1,500 illegal immigrants have had their protected status revoked after they were found to be involved with a gang or committed a crime.

    DACA recipients are given protection by the federal government and since the Trump Administration has not ended the program, experts like Mark Krikorian have previously said that 800 new permits for protected DACA status can be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) every day.

    “They’re still processing these work permits,” Krikorian told Breitbart Texas at the time. “That’s got to end at the absolute minimum.”

    Additionally, of the 1,478 gang members arrested, 10 of them had crossed the U.S.-Mexico Brder as unaccompanied minors. Of those 10, nine were confirmed gang members and eight of those 10 were MS-13 specifically.

    Most recently, Breitbart Texas reported on the continued resettlement of foreign unaccompanied minors into MS-13-prone regions of the U.S., despite experts pointing to evidence that this process allows foreign crime syndicates to flourish.

    Since the beginning of the Fiscal Year, October 1, 2016, 651 unaccompanied minors were placed in Nassau County, which is home to one of the largest growing MS-13 gang population’s in the U.S. In neighboring Suffolk County, which has a widespread MS-13 gang problem in Brentwood and Central Islip, approximately 915 have been resettled in the region.

    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...ang-crackdown/
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