Immigration Has Arrested 11000 ‘Transnational’ Gang Members in 3 Years

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | October 7, 2008

Over the past three years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IDE) has arrested more than 11,000 members and associates of “transnational” gangs operating inside the United States. In an effort called Operation Community Shield, ICE has targeted street gangs, investigated their internal operations, disrupted their inflow of cash, weapons, and various assets, and worked to remove illegal alien gang members from the U.S. In the last four months alone–from June to September–ICE agents made nearly 1,800 arrests as part of what the agency is calling a nationwide public safety “surge.” Almost 1,500 of those arrests were of gang members or their associates–including members of the violent transnational MS-13 gang.

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