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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

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