ICE operation prevents ‘nightmares and PTSD’ in massive Texas operation
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal and Texas officials carried out a massive 10-day operation in Houston that resulted in over 1,500 arrests, including of aggravated felons, gang...
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal and Texas officials carried out a massive 10-day operation in Houston that resulted in over 1,500 arrests, including of aggravated felons, gang members, sexual predators, a murderer and others. In a Wednesday statement, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Office Director Bret Bradford announced that "despite the conditions becoming increasingly dangerous for our officers as a result of the spread of violent political rhetoric and intentionally false information," agents arrested 1,505 illegal aliens in a southeast Texas operation that ran Oct. 22-31. Bradford said the arrests of gang members, child predators and other violent criminals "prevented countless Houstonians from having to suffer from the nightmares and PTSD that come with being a victim of violent crime." These arrests came after another ICE Houston operation in August resulted in 822 arrests and another in February and March that led to 543 arrests. MASSIVE ICE OPERATION NETS GANG MEMBERS, MURDERERS, CHILD PREDATORS: 'WREAKED HAVOC' In total, the October operation resulted in the arrests of 17 documented gang members, 40 aggravated felons, one convicted murderer and 13 sexual predators, according to the ICE statement. Offenses committed by those arrested included 115 aggravated assaults, 142 DWIs, 55 drug offenses and 31 weapons offenses. The agency also said that 255 of those arrested had been previously deported from the U.S. at least once. Nearly one-third of those arrested have been ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge, according to ICE. The agency highlighted some of the worst of the worst offenders nabbed in the operation, which included Selvin Joel Lara Diaz, a 35-year-old previously deported child predator and Mexican mafia member. According to ICE, Lara Diaz was convicted of raping and impregnating his own minor sister. He was arrested hiding in the shelves of a Houston-area grocery store. Another, Marlon Odir…