Over 10K worst of the worst illegal immigrants arrested in sanctuary city Los Angeles
More than 10,000 illegal immigrants — including suspected murderers, kidnappers, sexual predators and carjackers — have been arrested in Los Angeles since a federal crackdown was launched in June, the DHS said Thursday.The operation is part of a calculated effort by the federal government to weed out “the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants in cities across the country. Over the past six months, ICE officials, along with DHS and U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP), have carried out thousands of such arrests in the midst of a surge in protests throughout the city.“This success of this operation is in spite of violent rioters who assaulted our law enforcement, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at them, and attempted to obstruct lawful arrests of criminal illegal aliens,” the DHS said.Los Angeles, which operates as a sanctuary city under California law, has proposed measures in recent months to respond to the influx of ICE operations in the city — including legislation that would ban agents from wearing masks, a move aimed at preventing what critics say are “secret police” tactics.“While ICE law enforcement officers face a 1,150% increase in assaults and an 8,000% increase in death threats, these Sanctuary politicians of Los Angeles County want to make it easier for violent political extremists to target our brave men and women,” DHS Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, told The Post. DHS has released the names of ten “worst of the worst” offenders who were in the country illegally and booked on serious crimes, including rape, aggravated assault, armed carjacking, homicide, kidnapping, child sex offenses, attempted methamphetamine importation and aggravated sexual assault of a child.“Some of the most heinous criminal illegal aliens arrested include murderers, kidnappers, sexual predators, and armed carjackers,” said McLaughlin. “Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass failed the people of California.
They let these criminals ro...