Trump’s ICE Deporting 199 Iraqis,
6/15/17
Immigration officials are set to deport 199 Iraqi
nationals after their home country agreed to accept deportees as part of
President Donald Trump’s negotiations regarding the travel ban executive order.
Prior to order, Iraq refused repatriation.
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers carried out
targeted arrest operations over the past few weeks leading to the arrest of 199
Iraqi criminal aliens. Most of the 199 Iraqis, 114, were arrested in the
Detroit area, ICE officials stated. The arrested Iraqis have criminal records
in the U.S. for homicide, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, and a
host of other crimes.
As part of the ongoing operations by
ICE to deliver on President Trumps campaign promise to remove
criminal aliens, ERO officers have been working diligently to increase their
number of arrests.
“According to federal data, there
are at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside the country,”
then-presidential candidate Trump said in an August speech in
Phoenix. “We will begin moving them out day one, in joint operations with
local, state and federal law enforcement. Beyond the 2 million, there are a vast
number of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled or evaded
justice. But their days on the run will soon be over.”
During the first 100 days of the
Trump Administration, ICE arrests were up nearly 40 percent over the previous
year, Breitbart Texas reported.
“The operation in this region was
specifically conducted to address the very real public safety threat
represented by the criminal aliens arrested,” Detroit ERO Field Officer
Director Rebecca Adducci said in a written statement. “The vast majority of
those arrested in the Detroit metropolitan area have very serious felony
convictions, multiple felony convictions in many cases. I applaud the efforts
of the law enforcement personnel who, day in and day out, put their lives on
the line to protect this community.”
ICE officials had previously been
blocked from deporting Iraqi citizens because their home country refused to
accept American deportees. However, during the negotiations to remove Iraq from
President Trump’s travel ban, the country conceded.
“Since May 2017, the agency has
arrested 199 Iraqi nationals nationwide, the overwhelming majority of whom had
criminal convictions for crimes including homicide, rape, aggravated assault,
kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking, robbery, sex assault, weapons
violations and other offenses,” ICE’s Michigan Information Officer Khaalid H.
Walls wrote in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas.
“Two individuals did not have
criminal convictions but have pending criminal charges for drug trafficking,
receiving stolen property and multiple arrests for domestic violence. One
individual is a non-criminal with a final order of removal.” He directly
attributed the arrests to the president’s negotiations with Iraq. Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment