Thread: 67 arrested in Dallas-Fort Worth gang operation

I.C.E. News Release

June 14, 2011
Dallas, TX

67 arrested in Dallas-Fort Worth area during 5-day ICE-led anti-gang operation

DALLAS - Assisted by local law enforcement agencies, 67 men and women were arrested during a five-day operation targeting foreign-born gang members and their associates throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex by local agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

The following law enforcement agencies also participated in the operation: Dallas Police Department, Fort Worth Police Department, Arlington Police Department, Carrollton Police Department, Irving Police Department, Farmers Branch Police Department, and the Texas Department of Public Safety. ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is coordinating the detention and deportation of the aliens being returned to their home countries.

"Our significant gang arrest numbers are in large part due to our exceptional partnerships with the law enforcement agencies throughout the DFW Metroplex," said Alysa D. Erichs, special agent in charge of the ICE HSI office in Dallas. "Gangs are responsible for a significant amount of crime locally and throughout the country. These joint law enforcement operations help reduce this criminal threat to the public." Erichs oversees 128 counties in north Texas and the state of Oklahoma.

This is the latest local effort in an ongoing national ICE-HSI initiative to target foreign-born gang members and gang associates.

This multi-agency operation, which ended June 11, targeted gang members and associates engaged in organized criminal activity. Forty seven of those arrested during this operation are documented gang members; seven are gang associates from local street gangs.

Fifty eight were arrested on criminal warrants or charges; nine were administratively arrested by ICE on immigration violations. Following is the breakdown by city where the arrests took place: Arlington - 17, Fort Worth - 17, Carrollton - 13, Dallas - 12, Irving - 4, Desoto - 1, Farmers Branch - 1, Lewisville - 1 and Mesquite - 1.

Of those arrested, 47 are U.S. citizens, 15 are from Mexico, two are from El Salvador, and two are from Honduras, one is from Cuba. They range in age from 17 to 54 years old; two of those arrested were women.

In addition to the arrests, the following items were also seized: five firearms, $23,000 in cash, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine.

Those in ICE custody are charged with administrative immigration violations and are awaiting deportation. Two of those arrested had been previously deported. Anyone who re-enters the United States after having been formally deported commits a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Some of these gang members are sought or have been arrested for various crimes, including: various drug charges, weapons violations and burglary.

Those arrested during this five-day multi-agency operation represent the following 18 gangs: 18th Street, Aryan Brotherhood, Crips, East Side Latin Kings, Havana Boys, How High Krew, La Familia, Love Field Tango, Mexican Klan Locos, MS-13, Raza Unida, Southside, Surenos, Sur-13, Tango Blast, Barrio Northside, Webb Chapel Crips and West Side Six.

Information received by ICE HSI and other law enforcement indicates that criminal gangs are becoming increasingly involved in north Texas with smuggling and distributing narcotics, laundering illicit drug proceeds, and other illegal activities.

The arrests were made as part of Operation Community Shield, a national initiative whereby ICE partners with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to target the significant public safety threat posed by transnational criminal street gangs. Since Operation Community Shield began in February 2005, ICE agents nationwide have arrested more than 22,000 gang members and associates linked to more than 1,200 different street gangs. More than 250 of those arrested were gang leaders.

The National Gang Unit at ICE identifies violent street gangs and develops intelligence on their membership, associates, criminal activities and international movements to deter, disrupt and dismantle gang operations by tracing and seizing cash, weapons and other assets derived from criminal seized activities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

ICE is a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. For more information, visit www.ICE.gov . To report suspicious activity, call 1-866-347-2423.

U.S. Dept of Homeland Security

http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1106/110614dallas.htm

67 gang members arrested in North Texas

Posted Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 PrintReprints
By Mitch Mitchell
mitchmitchell@star-telegram.com

Immigration officials working with local officers arrested 67 gang members in North Texas during a five-day period that ended June 11.

The operation targeted foreign-born gang members and their associates. The cities with the most arrests included 17 in Fort Worth, 17 in Arlington, 13 in Carrollton and 12 in Dallas. Five other cities had fewer than four arrests.

"The local law enforcement people are the ones with the intel," said Carl Rusnok, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. "They see these gang members every day. We pool our info with local law enforcement and it benefits everyone involved."

Most of the arrests were made during the execution of criminal warrants while nine other arrests resulted from immigration violations, an ICE news release said.

Of those arrested, 47 are U.S. citizens, 15 are from Mexico, two are from El Salvador, two are from Honduras and one is from Cuba. The suspects range in age from 17 to 54 years old and two of those arrested were women, the release said.

Authorities seized five firearms, $23,000 in cash, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine while making the arrests, according to the release. Those in ICE custody are charged with administrative immigration violations and are awaiting deportation. Two of those arrested had been previously deported.

Some of these gang members are sought or have been arrested for various crimes, including drug and weapons violations and burglary.

Those arrested during the operation represent the following 18 gangs: 18th Street, Aryan Brotherhood, Crips, East Side Latin Kings, Havana Boys, How High Krew, La Familia, Love Field Tango, Mexican Klan Locos, MS-13, Raza Unida, Southside, Surenos, Sur-13, Tango Blast, Barrio Northside, Webb Chapel Crips and West Side Six.

Mitch Mitchell, 817-390-7752

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/14 ... north.html

47 are US Citizens so are they going to be deported too ? Have they lost their US citizenship ? Hooray if they did. I hope ICE arrests & deports every foreign born gang member in the USA !!

Originally Posted by USPatriot

47 are US Citizens so are they going to be deported too ? Have they lost their US citizenship ? Hooray if they did. I hope ICE arrests & deports every foreign born gang member in the USA !!

Sorry, but no country can deport their own citizens, according to international law.
(Castro got away with it when he emptied his jails, prisons and mental hospitals during the U.S. boat lift to Florida. But, he didn't really deport them he just allowed them to get on the boats that the U.S. sent to pick up people who wanted to leave Cuba.)

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by USPatriot

47 are US Citizens so are they going to be deported too ? Have they lost their US citizenship ? Hooray if they did. I hope ICE arrests & deports every foreign born gang member in the USA !!

Sorry, but no country can deport their own citizens, according to international law.
(Castro got away with it when he emptied his jails, prisons and mental hospitals during the U.S. boat lift to Florida. But, he didn't really deport them he just allowed them to get on the boats that the U.S. sent to pick up people who wanted to leave Cuba.)

Stuff the international law and globalization junk. Greece is about to cause the EU to totally fall apart. When it's monetary system fails, watch them all fall over.

The Immigration Control Act Clinton signed in the 90's does allow the deportation of immigrants(foreign born) who are convicted of certain criminal offenses. This sting "targeted foreign born" so that implies the people being called citizens may be naturalized or were amnesty(86/96) recipients.

Either way, good riddance!

Dixie

Sadly, once the government gives someone citizenship they can't deport them unless they can take away their citizenship. The only way they can take away their citizenship is to prove in court that they lied on the citizenship application or hid important facts about their past. If they got their citizenship by being born in the U.S. currently you can't take it away. U.S. law does not currently allow for any citizen of the U.S. to be deported.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Sadly, once the government gives someone citizenship they can't deport them unless they can take away their citizenship. The only way they can take away their citizenship is to prove in court that they lied on the citizenship application or hid important facts about their past. If they got their citizenship by being born in the U.S. currently you can't take it away. U.S. law does not currently allow for any citizen of the U.S. to be deported.

The citizens who were arrested were "Foreign Born" which indicates they can be deported if convicted of a crime. Only citizens who were "born" in the USA cannot be deported even criminals.

Any "Foreign Born" citizen who joins a gang should lose their USA citizenship ASAP !!