(Just The News)—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working with federal law enforcement partners, apprehended 133 foreign nationals “during an enhanced targeted enforcement operation focusing on criminal illegal alien offenders and other immigration violators in western, central, and northern New York to bolster public safety, national security and border security,” said.
Among those arrested in a one-week operation were 84 illegal foreign nationals in the Buffalo and Rochester areas, and 49 in Syracuse, Albany, Rouses Point, and Massena.
Among them were 20 with criminal convictions or charges, including three convicted of homicide. Nine had been previously removed from the U.S. Four criminal search warrants were executed, including at worksites for federal violations “of bringing in and harboring certain aliens;” 18 administrative immigration arrests were also made.
Among those arrested were a Trinidad and Tobago national convicted of murder; a Dominican national convicted of sexual conduct with a child; a Salvadoran national convicted of murder and gang assault; a Dominican national convicted of manslaughter and criminal sale of controlled substance; a Chinese national convicted of assault; a Mexican national convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; an Ecuadoran national with several DWI convictions, among others.
In another operation, ICE Buffalo agents removed two Honduran nationals illegally in the U.S. who were convicted of felony sexual offenses. Both illegally entered the U.S. “on an unknown date at an unknown location without being admitted or paroled by a U.S. Immigration official,” otherwise known as “gotaways,” ICE said. A record more than two million gotaways were reported illegally entering the U.S. under the Biden administration, The Center Square exclusively reported.
One Honduran was convicted in Suffolk County of attempted rape in the first-degree in 2021 and sentenced to seven years in prison. The other was found guilty of sexual assault of a victim under 13 and was later arrested for violating a judicial restraining order.