4,170 Arrests in Ten Days. Texas Just Showed America What Real Immigration Enforcement Looks Like

ICE's Lone Star Mission swept up suspects wanted for murder, convicted sex offenders, drunk drivers and a cartel smuggler. The critics want a fuller breakdown, and they should get one. But the operation proves the law can be enforced when Washington means it.

By Clara Hughes

For ten days this month, the federal government did something Texans had been asking for over many years. It sent its immigration officers into every corner of the state at once, and it did not apologize. The Department of Homeland Security says its Lone Star Mission, run from October 19 to October 29 by all five Immigration and Customs Enforcement field offices in Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Harlingen), ended with 4,170 illegal aliens under arrest. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the results at a press conference in Dallas on Thursday. "Lone Star Mission has been an incredible success, with the brave patriots of ICE arresting more than 4,100 illegal aliens across the state of Texas in ten days," Mullin said in the DHS release. "Thanks to President Trump's leadership, ICE has been fully unleashed to go after criminal illegal aliens and make America safe again." About 60 percent of those arrested had criminal histories, Mullin said, according