ICE announced that officials in the Houston area arrested over 800 illegal aliens in a weeklong operation. Among the convictions were sexual assault of a child, sexual indecency with a minor, and intoxication manslaughter. (ICE)
Martinez said that many of these criminal illegal aliens "remained in the Houston area and have gone on to wreak havoc in our local communities."
One illegal arrested in the operation, 54-year-old Mexican national Alejandro Perez Miramontes, has previously been deported 12 times. Perez Miramontes has been convicted eight times for illegal reentry, four times for illegal entry and twice each for robbery, larceny and burglary, and once each for trespassing and evading arrest, according to ICE.
The agency said that among those arrested was also Salvadoran national William Alexander Telles Amaya, a 35-year-old criminal alien and habitual child predator. ICE said Telles Amaya has been convicted three times for child sex offenses, including aggravated sexual assault of a child in 2006, failure to register as a sex offender in 2015 and sexual indecency with a minor in July.
Several others also had recent child sex offenses on their records, including Francisco Eduardo Bonilla, a 37-year-old Salvadoran national, who was convicted of sexual indecency with a minor in Harris County, Texas, in February.
An ICE Houston deportation operation earlier this year. (ICE Houston)
Salvadoran national Hemerlindo Antonio Ascencio-Merino, 53, was also arrested in the roundup. He is wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide and illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 in an attempt to evade prosecution, according to the agency.
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ICE also arrested Cruz Leandro Martinez Leiva, a 25-year-old MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, who was convicted of robbery and armed carjacking in October 2018.
The agency said the operation was a part of the Trump administration’s efforts to restore public safety by targeting the "worst of the worst" criminal aliens and immigration law violators. Several other federal agencies participated in the operation as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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