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ICE Homeland Security Investigations and its federal, state and local law enforcement partners announced the conclusion of Operation Muddy Waters, a coordinated, two-week, statewide enforcement effort targeting child exploitation offenders and previously convicted sex offenders across Mississippi.
Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella issues statement on mischaracterization of ICE's body-worn camera policy
Titled “Operation Safe Community – Atlanta” the immigration enforcement operation netted illegal alien offenders with criminal histories that include sex crimes, crimes against children, aggravated assault, assault and battery, drug crimes, lewd and lascivious acts, burglary, weapons crimes, driving while intoxicated and more.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans announced Glynn Dixon, 62, of Forest Hill, pleaded guilty in federal court June 30 to his role in a decadelong conspiracy involving bribery, visa fraud and mail fraud.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore conducted targeted enforcement operations on July 9 to locate and arrest Yeferson Jose Canamo-Jordan, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national and suspected TdA gang member, and Felipe Fernando Reymundo, a 23-year-old Guatemalan national.
The team of ICE officers, some of whom are fathers themselves, acted quickly, securing the child’s safety and calling the Murfreesboro Police Department for help.
ICE officers from the Boston field office arrested Pierre Andy Jean-Louis, 20, a criminal illegal alien from Haiti, during a vehicle stop, July 18, in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador who was detained at Delaney Hall Detention Facility, was pronounced deceased Aug. 1 by medical personnel at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
Jose Garrido-Benitez, 51, was caught flying a drone within 2.5 miles of Arrowhead Stadium July 3. Federal agents seized his drone the same day and notified ICE.
Despite his deportation after a 2017 felony conviction in Maryland for a deadly automotive offense that killed a U.S. Marine, Martin Martinez-Ballinas, 38, of Mexico, brazenly and unlawfully reentered the United States twice.
HSI Atlanta and its law enforcement partners launched Operation Red Card, a multiagency effort targeting human trafficking and child exploitation during the World Cup.
ICE deported Agustin Morales-Renteria and Juan Becerra Ruiz, both 24-year-old criminal illegal aliens, to their home country of Mexico, July 21, where they are wanted for aggravated homicide and intentional homicide, respectively.
Officers from ICE Boston apprehended Rocael Ordonez-Cruz, 23, July 21, in Billerica, Massachusetts.
On June 10, officers from ICE Washington arrested Sebastian Mihai Caraba, a Hungarian-Romanian national who overstayed his visa who was wanted in Fairfax, Virginia, for illegal use of credit cards.
ICE Chicago removed a criminal illegal alien from Kenya and former Indianapolis Colts linebacker.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations executed a nationwide operation targeting illegal SIM box operations run by transnational criminal organizations between June 22 and July 10. The mission, dubbed Operation Signal Break, dismantled critical command-and-control infrastructure used to perpetrate large-scale telecommunications fraud across the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the publication of a finalized rule today that officially eliminates the “duration of status” loophole that allowed foreign students, exchange visitors, and media representatives to remain in the United States indefinitely without routine government oversight.
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments. Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout their stay.
Lorenzo Turner, 43, of Washington D.C., has been charged with two counts of sex trafficking a child; two counts of transporting a child with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and commission of a felony crime involving a child by a registered sex offender.
A Dallas man who trafficked nine young women was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison June 15, following an investigation led by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Dallas.
Carlos Javier Padron, 36, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, and his co-conspirator, Oddry Arnoldo Cabrera Torrealba, also known as Luis Alejandro Berdugo Barraza, 37, each received a six-and-a-half year prison sentence.
ICE, in partnership with federal, state and local law enforcement officials, arrested 238 illegal aliens, achieving the highest single-day targeted arrests for the Enforcement and Removal Operations Harlingen field office area of operations June 18.
The joint law enforcement operation resulted in the arrests of five men and the identification of nine potential human trafficking victims in Sumner County.
An ICE Homeland Security Investigations Seattle and Klickitat County Sheriff’s Department investigation led to a 27-year prison sentence and lifetime supervised release for a Goldendale man who pleaded guilty to two counts of enticement and attempted enticement of a child and one count of possession of child sexual abuse images.
ICE Miami took Elias Cardoza-Torres, 58, into custody upon his release from Miami-Dade County custody June 11. Cardoza-Torres, a criminal illegal alien from Cuba, has been convicted of selling heroin, cocaine possession, vehicle theft, burglary and a weapons offense.
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