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78 People Arrested in Weeklong Arizona Immigration Sweep

Russians, Peruvians and Mexicans were among more than 70 immigrants arrested last week in Arizona during a weeklong operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Aug. 31, 2018, at 4:18 p.m.


78 People Arrested in Weeklong Arizona Immigration Sweep


By ASTRID GALVAN, Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) — Russians, Peruvians and Mexicans were among 78 immigrants arrested last week in Arizona during a weeklong operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said Friday.

The agency's Phoenix field office director, Henry Lucero, said the effort included arrests of many people previously convicted of serious crimes such as aggravated assault, kidnapping, drug trafficking and domestic violence. Nearly 30 of those arrested had driving under the influence convictions.

"As a result of this operation, Arizona is a safer place to reside," Lucero said.

Lucero said many of those arrested are now in deportation proceedings. Several will face criminal charges for illegal re-entry.


Their identities were not made public but the arrests included people from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Russia.

In one example, a Russian immigrant was arrested on suspicion of being a human smuggler. In Flagstaff, a 36-year-old Mexican man with a 2004 conviction for sexually-motivated aggravated assault was arrested.

Lucero said in average weeks, the agency's Arizona officers book more than 1,000 immigrants into custody, remove 300 people from the country, take 150 people from county jails after they're released and raid drop houses, including one in the Phoenix area recently that netted the arrest of 19 immigrants and the seizure of an illegally-owned automatic rifle.

Lucero said Arizona is the second-busiest area for ICE officers in the country.

ICE has come under scrutiny in the past year over arrests of immigrants who are out with their kids and for deportations of parents who were separated from their children at the border.

Immigration activists have launched a movement to abolish the agency. It has become an issue in local, state and federal elections, but many candidates don't believe it's a feasible idea.

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GREAT article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ICE arrests 364 criminal aliens and immigration violators

"Nearly 30 of those arrested had driving under the influence convictions."

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They think nothing of getting drunk out of their minds and driving on our roads killing people!

If they were already arrested for DUI and here ILLEGALLY...why are they not deported!

These Judges are killing us by not handing them over to ICE.