(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Houston arrested 822 criminal foreign nationals in a week-long operation. Those arrested include transnational gang members, convicted murderers and child sex offenders, foreign fugitives, among others.

“During the past four years, transnational gang members, foreign fugitives and other violent criminal aliens took advantage of the crisis at our southern border to illegally enter the country,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations acting Field Office Director Gabriel Martinez said. “Many of them remained in the Houston area and have gone on to wreak havoc in our local communities. This weeklong operation focused on targeting those threats to public safety and resulted in the successful arrests of 822 illegal aliens,

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