ICE Sweeps Southwest Indiana for Gang Members

[Æmeric]

ICE arrests 14 men in southern Indiana during operation
targeting foreign-born gang members

Agents with the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in close partnership with other federal, state and local law enforcement partners, arrested 14 foreign-born gang members and gang associates during a two-day operation ending Tuesday. This is the latest joint local action of an ongoing national ICE-HSI effort to target foreign-born members of violent street gangs.
These arrests were made Aug. 9 and 10 in the Indiana communities of Jasper, Huntingburg and Evansville under an initiative by ICE's National Gang Unit dubbed "Operation Community Shield." As part of the initiative, ICE partners with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies across the country to target transnational street gangs and the significant public safety threat they pose.

All 14 men arrested are members or associates of the following violent street gangs: MS-13, Sur-13, and Zoe Pound. Nine are from El Salvador, three are from Mexico, one is from Honduras and one is from Haiti. Twelve are in ICE custody on administrative immigration charges and will be placed into deportation proceedings. Two are in the DuBois County Jail pending local charges. For privacy reasons, ICE does not release the names of those arrested on administrative immigration charges.

During the operation ICE agents seized two semi-automatic handguns, each with two magazines of ammunition. Also seized were two machetes and 300 rounds of ammunition. Many of those arrested have criminal histories in addition to their immigration violations. Some of their arrests and convictions include: battery, resisting arrest, drug dealing, sexual battery, felony intimidations, and aggravated assault with a weapon.

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It has been an open secret for years that there were members of MS-13 in the Jasper-Huntingburg area. But 14 are just a drop in the bucket. There is no immigration enforcement in most small towns in this part of the country & this is the first time I have ever heard of any illegal aliens being taken into custody in this region. I think the sweep was done mainly for public relations reasons leading up to the November elections.

[wittwer]

Good! It's about time. Now, if only we could get them to start clearing them out of here in Chicago ..., not only the Latins, but the Russian/Eastern European Mafia and it's affiliates as well.

Ahh.... the joy of Globalization...

[Ediruc]

California needs some major work with its gangs

[SpearBrave]

It has been an open secret for years that there were members of MS-13 in the Jasper-Huntingburg area. But 14 are just a drop in the bucket. There is no immigration enforcement in most small towns in this part of the country & this is the first time I have ever heard of any illegal aliens being taken into custody in this region. I think the sweep was done mainly for public relations reasons leading up to the November elections.

Yes, I agree on a local level it is "drop out of the bucket" on the national level it is a "drop out of the ocean".

I also have never heard of illegals being taken into custody around here, but then again we don't live that far from one another.

The really sad thing is that they don't go after the scum bags that hire this filth. That is one way to nip it in the bud.

Personally I would like to see every one of them leave our area for good. Jasper is a beautiful town and to see them running around galking at our women and commiting crimes just makes me almost go into a blood rage.
One thing we all can do is make them feel unwelcome, it can be as simple as dirty look or as much as avoid their places of business. Really I do not even like mexican food, and we know these places are just fronts for illegal activity.