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John Morton, Director: I'm here today to announce the latest results
of ICE's national operation targeting criminal aliens for arrest and removal.
The operation known as National Cross Check
took place last week in every state of the Union.
"We're dealing with an individual who's got weapons violations, and has got drug convictions, alright?"
The 2,834 criminals we arrested had convictions for a wide array of offenses.
To name a few:
***, ***, aggravated assault,
hit and run, grand larceny, *** assault,
DUI, armed robbery, drug trafficking ,and child abuse.
These are not people we want roaming our streets.
"He's currently on probation out of Fairfax."
The results are impressive.
In the space of six days, we arrested 3,168 individuals.
698 were immigration fugitives.
559 were illegal re-entrants.
50 were gang members.
149 were convicted sex offenders.
1,063 had multiple criminal convictions.
We remove about 400,000 people a year.
"The next target here…"
Due to our changed priorities, however,
over half of those removals are now of criminal offenders.
Up 89 percent since Fiscal Year 2008.
89 percent in the space of three fiscal years.
Think about it: the rate of recidivism for criminals released to the streets
is as high as 50% in certain parts of our country.
When ICE arrests and removes a particular offender,
the rate of recidivism for that particular offender drops to zero.
"Right there, you know what you're getting into?"
Removing criminal offenders from our streets
is good law enforcement, it's good immigration enforcement.
Public safety is directly and significantly improved
By deporting those involved in crime, period.