Nearly 300 foreign nationals with criminal records have been removed from the United States or are facing deportation following an enforcement surge in California, making it the biggest operation targeting at large criminal aliens ever carried out by the federal government.
During the three-day operation, which concluded late Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers located and arrested a total of 280 criminal aliens statewide, along with six non-criminal aliens who had final orders of deportation. More than 80 percent of the criminal aliens taken into custody had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes such as rape, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
Included in the group of captured suspects are 30 convicted sex offenders, many of whom sexually assaulted children. Of those arrested during this operation, at least 100 have already been removed from the country.
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