Feds Arrest Dozens Of Illegal Immigrants



Federal agents announced Friday that they arrested dozens of fugitive illegal immigrants.

Immigration officials said they are taking a tough stance on criminals living in the country illegally as part of a nationwide program called Operation Cross Check.

Agents in the Dallas/Fort Worth area said they have arrested 148 fugitive illegal immigrants in the last four days. Some of them have already been moved out of the country.


The government called 41 of the people arrested “criminal illegal immigrants,” including drug dealers, burglars and child predators.

“If they're out there, they're fugitive. They're illegal,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Nuria Prendes said. “Especially if they're illegal, my teams are aggressively pursuing them.”

Friday’s bust was the largest in the country since Operation Cross Check began. Officials estimated that there are about 600,000 illegal immigrant fugitives remaining in the country.