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| Texas raid targeting Tren de Aragua gang leads to arrest of 140 illegal immigrants in San Antonio, Houston op nets 3500 criminal illegals |
| 2025-11-18 |
| [FoxNews] The San Antonio raid was part of a joint federal, state, and local effort to dismantle transnational criminal networks operating across the southern border A raid at a sex and human trafficking operation in San Antonio operated by members of Tren de Aragua gang (TdA) resulted in at least 140 illegal immigrants being arrested, authorities said Monday. The raid was part of a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and federal and local authorities, Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott said. On Monday, a regional Homeland Security Task Force was created to combat transnational criminal organizations. The aim of the task force is to dismantle drug cartels, foreign terrorist organizations, and criminal networks responsible for crimes like human trafficking, drug smuggling, and money laundering. Sunday's raid was part of President Donald Trump's executive order issued on Jan. 20 targeting transnational criminal organizations. More than 140 illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico and other South American countries were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The raid involved multiple federal agencies. "The Homeland Security Task Force enables the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to bring its sophisticated investigative techniques to the table, which have been instrumental in capturing the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the United States and worldwide," said the Houston Field Division Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen. Meanwhile, in Houston, ICE arrested 3,500 criminal illegal aliens, including child predators and murderers, during the 43-day government shutdown. Houston ICE operation nets over 3,500 criminal illegal aliens in six weeks during shutdown [FoxNews] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Houston arrested more than 3,500 criminal illegal aliens, including child predators, murderers and gang members, during the longest government shutdown, despite many agents going without pay. ICE officials said the six-week operation, conducted from Oct. 1 through Nov. 12, marked one of the largest enforcement actions in recent years and underscored the agency’s commitment to public safety even as federal employees went without pay. "Our entire team understands how critical ICE’s mission is to public safety and national security, and despite many of them going without pay, they continued to show up every day and give everything they had to protect this community from dangerous criminal illegal alien gang members, child predators, murderers and rapists," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO) Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford said. ICE said the operation led to the arrest of 3,593 criminal illegal aliens across Southeast Texas, including 67 sex offenders, 51 child predators, 13 murderers, 10 fugitives and 23 gang members. Among those taken into custody were members of the MS-13 and Paisas gangs. |
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