Mexican national Edgar De La Cruz-Manzo was convicted of raping a child.
Gokhan Adriguzel, a 30-year-old Turkish national, is allegedly a “known or suspected terrorist.”
In Buffalo, an unidentified Jordanian man with ties to the Islamic State death cult was arrested Friday.
Others ensnared in the nationwide roundup in the U.S. include a Haitian gang boss, an MS-13 member wanted for murder, and at least 50 members of the hyper-violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
There is a new sheriff in town and his name is Trump.
“We want the country to know that we will all support the president’s priority to round up the most dangerous illegal criminals,” Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) acting administrator Derek Maltz told the New York Post.
Newly minted U.S. President Donald Trump has made it his mission to deport millions of immigrants who have slipped into the country. Target One: Criminals.
“The president and the DOJ (Department of Justice) leaders have made it clear that we are going to work together with a sense of urgency to hold violent criminals accountable,” Maltz said.
“The citizens of this country must feel safe every day throughout the country. One of my goals is to help build an army of good to fight evil.”
Of course, in Canada, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has been on a Quixotic crusade to save environmental activist Zain Haq from being deported to his native Pakistan. She failed and he was on a one-way flight on Sunday.
Haq — in Canada on a student visa, natch — was arrested multiple times and was let off the hook yet again last spring. Not this time.
To be fair, Haq is not a violent criminal but he did break the law multiple times and overstayed his welcome. There are worse foreign criminals in Canada but thus far they’re in the clear.
In the U.S., the ICE raids took place over the weekend and rolled like a tidal wave in Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and all points between.
Most spectacular was the roll-up of Tren de Aragua just outside the Denver suburb of Aurora shortly before dawn on Sunday.
The feds — including the U.S. Marshals — raided what was described as a “makeshift nightclub.” For more than a year, the gang had terrorized the town, taking over whole apartment buildings for their nefarious enterprises.
But authorities interrupted the gang’s “invite-only” bash. Confiscated were guns and the wildly addictive narcotic “pink cocaine” that has been key to the crime syndicate’s expansion.
Fifty gangbangers will soon be on their way out of the country as part of Operation Return to Sender. So far across the U.S., more than 600 illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities have been busted.
And the raids aren’t just a one-off: They are expected to keep going, seven days a week, for the foreseeable future.
No doubt, innocents only wishing to make a better life for themselves and their families will be swept up in the storm. And that is a tragedy. But it’s easy to see how it happened.
The government in this country has blown off nearly a decade of escalating concerns from cops and the public.
It has refused to take action to remove even the most violent criminals and other lawbreakers.
Pre-dawn raids have not unfolded in Canada — yet. But it’s pretty easy to understand why they might soon be.
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