Amid hundreds of anti-deportation and anti-President Donald Trump protests across the nation this weekend, the Houston branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Friday that it had deported 528 illegal aliens and arrested 422 during a week-long operation.
Houston ICE said that of the 422 arrested, 296 were criminal aliens — convicted in other countries for charges including homicide, sexual exploitation of a minor, driving while intoxicated, robbery, assault, carrying prohibited weapons, arson, and possession of a controlled substance.
Bret Bradford, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director, said in a press release announcing the deportations and arrests on Friday, “In recent years, some of the world’s most dangerous fugitives, transnational gang members and criminal aliens have taken advantage of the crisis at our nation’s southern border to ille-gally enter the U.S.”
