Dallas – American immigration and customs application arrested nearly 90 illegal immigrants to northern Texas on Sunday.
Icy arrests in Dallas-Form Worth
What we know:
ICE confirmed that agents arrested a total of 84 people on Sunday in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Garland and Colin County.
“Immigration and implementation of US customs, along with our federal law enforcement partners, have begun to carry out enhanced target operations yesterday in North Texas and Oklahoma to apply US law on immigration and to maintain public safety and national security, while maintaining potentially, while maintaining potential Dangerous criminal aliens from our communities, “said an ice spokesman in a statement.
Protests were then reported in Dallas.
What we don’t know:
Ice did not say what crimes the DFW immigrants were responsible, but they said they were all criminals.
National immigration repression
The arrests of northern Texas were part of the entire country of nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants suspected of or were convicted of other crimes were arrested.
About 50 illegal immigrants were arrested at a nightclub in Denver. Federal officials said many of them were drug traffickers and gang members.
“I do not think we have arrested families. We have arrested threats to public safety and threats to national security, lower order,” said the border Tom Homan.
Homan said the ice remains focused on finding criminals.
Defense Secretary Pete Heget told reporters on Monday that illegal immigration repression is a top priority for the Trump administration.
“He became clear that there was an emergency on the southern border that the sovereign, that the protection of the sovereign territory of the United States was the work of the Ministry of Defense,” he said.
Texas sends 400 soldiers to the border
While ICE continues its repression, Texas governor Greg Abat sends more troops to the border.
Abbot on Monday said he had about 400 troops from bases in Houston and Fort Worth to the border between the US and Mexico in the Rio Grande Valley.
They will join the thousands of soldiers of the National Guard of Texas, who are already located.
C-130 and Chinook helicopters are also sent.
The source: The information in this story comes from a statement by American immigration and the application of customs, as well as from news conferences with the border king Tom Homan, the Secretary of the Defense Pete Heget and the update of the news from the Governor’s office.