Federal immigration officials arrested 225 people in a sweeping six-day raid in the five boroughs and surrounding counties, officials said.

Operation Keep Safe, as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency called it, netted 163 people in the city between April 9 through April 14 — 45 of whom had no outstanding criminal issue.

ICE officials said that 180 of those arrested were convicted criminals or had criminal charges pending against them, but refused to release their names. Those people now face deportation.

The feds groused that the city refused to cooperate in the arrests, claiming that it only increases the amount of people arrested who pose no public safety threat.

"The fact is that a so-called sanctuary city does not only provide refuge to those who are here against immigration law, but also provides protections for criminal aliens who prey on the people in their own communities by committing crimes at all levels."

ICE said that the people without criminal problems who were nabbed, which they call "collateral arrests," were a byproduct of the city's noncooperation.

"ICE has no choice but to continue to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community," the agency said.

Another fine mess the liberals have gotten Latino's into eh Ollie? No proof of citizenship, no green card, no valid visa.....out ya go. I'm sure they will come back but it will cost then a fortune to do it. They won't be able to get another visa and just fly back as once deported the minimum amount of legal time they have to wait is 5 years. That means they need a coyote to get them back in and they ain't cheap. I think that sanctuary cities are the best thing the left has thought up in decades. If they cooperated with ICE we'd only be removing the bad guys, this way the remove everyone illegal in their way and I LIKE it!

Now what ICE needs to do is follow the marchers that want to meet the caravan at the border and scoop 'em all up. Anyone illegal should be given the boot for the next 5 years. I think they don't have the brains God gave to a Billy Goat.

Another fine mess the liberals have gotten Latino's into eh Ollie? No proof of citizenship, no green card, no valid visa.....out ya go. I'm sure they will come back but it will cost then a fortune to do it. They won't be able to get another visa and just fly back as once deported the minimum amount of legal time they have to wait is 5 years. That means they need a coyote to get them back in and they ain't cheap. I think that sanctuary cities are the best thing the left has thought up in decades. If they cooperated with ICE we'd only be removing the bad guys, this way the remove everyone illegal in their way and I LIKE it!

Now what ICE needs to do is follow the marchers that want to meet the caravan at the border and scoop 'em all up. Anyone illegal should be given the boot for the next 5 years. I think they don't have the brains God gave to a Billy Goat.

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LOL you are a laugh riot as yes ICE only removed the bad guys like the guy who had service in the US military in war zones and have family members that are US citizens and been in the US since age 8.

A US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

The deportation follows an earlier decision by US authorities to deny Miguel Perez's citizenship application because of a felony drug conviction, despite his service and the PTSD he says it caused.

nctuary church, or a place that promises to provide shelter and support for undocumented immigrants.
Perez, his family and supporters, who include Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, had argued that his wartime service to the country had earned him the right to stay in the United States and to receive mental health treatment for the PTSD and substance abuse.
"This case is a tragic example of what can happen when national immigration policies are based more in hate than on logic and ICE doesn't feel accountable to anyone," Duckworth said in a statement following reports of Perez's deportation. "At the very least, Miguel should have been able to exhaust all of his legal options before being rushed out of the country under a shroud of secrecy."
Perez was born in Mexico and legally came to the United States at age 8 when his father, Miguel Perez Sr., a semi-pro soccer player, moved the family to Chicago because of a job offer, Perez told CNN earlier. He has two children born in the United States. His parents and one sister are now naturalized American citizens, and another sister is an American citizen by birth.
It's a complicated case. Perez has said that what he saw and experienced in Afghanistan sent his life off the rails, leading to heavy drinking, a drug addiction and ultimately to his felony conviction.
"After the second tour, there was more alcohol and that was also when I tried some drugs," Perez said last month. "But the addiction really started after I got back to Chicago, when I got back home, because I did not feel very sociable."

In 2010, he was convicted in Cook County, Illinois, on charges related to delivering more than 2 pounds of cocaine to an undercover officer. He was sentenced to 15 years and his green card was revoked. He had served half his sentence when ICE began deportation proceedings. He had been in the agency's custody since 2016.
Perez has said he was surprised to be in ICE detention and mistakenly believed that enlisting in the Army would automatically give him US citizenship, according to his lawyer, Chris Bergin. His retroactive application for citizenship was denied earlier this month. While there are provisions for expediting troops' naturalization process, a main requirement is that the applicant demonstrate "good moral character," and the drug conviction was enough to sway the decision against his application, Bergin said.
Perez enlisted in the Army in 2001, just months before 9/11. He served in Afghanistan from October 2002 to April 2003 and again from May to October 2003, according to his lawyer. He left the Army in 2004 with a general discharge after he was caught smoking marijuana on base.
Perez went on a hunger strike earlier this year, saying he feared deportation would mean death. Aside from not getting the treatment he needs, he told CNN that he fears Mexican drug cartels will try to recruit him because of his combat experience and will murder him if he doesn't cooperate.
"If they are sentencing me to a certain death, and I am going to die, then why die in a place that I have not considered my home in a long time?" he asked.
CNN's Amir Vera, Maria Santana, Ralph Ellis and Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report.

This guy deserves to be a citizen so much more than any of you that its just hilarious. The guys serves in Afghanistan, gets PTSD and when he comes back he develops a drug habit. A story that has been lived thousands of times by our combat veterans.

But instead of getting this guy some help like we would with any other combat veteran, we eject him back to Mexico penniless, mentally unstable and afflicted with a drug addiction.

The thanks of a grateful nation I guess. Its this **** that helps make America worthless.

This guy deserves to be a citizen so much more than any of you that its just hilarious. The guys serves in Afghanistan, gets PTSD and when he comes back he develops a drug habit. A story that has been lived thousands of times by our combat veterans.

But instead of getting this guy some help like we would with any other combat veteran, we eject him back to Mexico penniless, mentally unstable and afflicted with a drug addiction.

The thanks of a grateful nation I guess. Its this **** that helps make America worthless.

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Yes indeed given everything unless the posters who see nothing wrong with deporting him to a nation he have no ties with since the age of 8 are vets who had serve in war zones for this nation they should indeed be ashamed of themselves.

This guy deserves to be a citizen so much more than any of you that its just hilarious. The guys serves in Afghanistan, gets PTSD and when he comes back he develops a drug habit. A story that has been lived thousands of times by our combat veterans.

But instead of getting this guy some help like we would with any other combat veteran, we eject him back to Mexico penniless, mentally unstable and afflicted with a drug addiction.

The thanks of a grateful nation I guess. Its this **** that helps make America worthless.

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Hahaha! Now we see why lefties hate Christianity so much. They want to preach their own "morals". Please keep your quasi-religious morality to yourself.

Yes indeed given everything unless the posters who see nothing wrong with deporting him to a nation he have no ties with since the age of 8 are vets who had serve in war zones for this nation they should indeed be ashamed of themselves.

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Amd here we go with the false image of the illegal alien whose farts smell like cotton candy......

May I qualify that? They were doing the jobs American's won't do as long as they make enough to get by on welfare. We need to do what the UK has done. Just cap it. Rent goes up....oh well. Set a welfare income level and it never goes up.

I'm not a big fan of the wall. Bring home 30,000 of our troops from around the world with their equipment and put 'em along the border, we're paying for them and their equipment to protect somebody else's borders. Then take the wall money and go after visa overstays and beef up the visa system. That's how they are getting in.

I'm not a big fan of the wall. Bring home 30,000 of our troops from around the world with their equipment and put 'em along the border, we're paying for them and their equipment to protect somebody else's borders. Then take the wall money and go after visa overstays and beef up the visa system. That's how they are getting in.

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Did you read the list of countries? The southern border isn't the problem.

Another fine mess the liberals have gotten Latino's into eh Ollie? No proof of citizenship, no green card, no valid visa.....out ya go. I'm sure they will come back but it will cost then a fortune to do it. They won't be able to get another visa and just fly back as once deported the minimum amount of legal time they have to wait is 5 years. That means they need a coyote to get them back in and they ain't cheap. I think that sanctuary cities are the best thing the left has thought up in decades. If they cooperated with ICE we'd only be removing the bad guys, this way the remove everyone illegal in their way and I LIKE it!

Now what ICE needs to do is follow the marchers that want to meet the caravan at the border and scoop 'em all up. Anyone illegal should be given the boot for the next 5 years. I think they don't have the brains God gave to a Billy Goat.

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Here in California, they are being given drivers licenses. Now we can't call them undocumented. The new official name for them is "Documented Hit and Run Aliens!"

Another fine mess the liberals have gotten Latino's into eh Ollie? No proof of citizenship, no green card, no valid visa.....out ya go. I'm sure they will come back but it will cost then a fortune to do it. They won't be able to get another visa and just fly back as once deported the minimum amount of legal time they have to wait is 5 years. That means they need a coyote to get them back in and they ain't cheap. I think that sanctuary cities are the best thing the left has thought up in decades. If they cooperated with ICE we'd only be removing the bad guys, this way the remove everyone illegal in their way and I LIKE it!

Now what ICE needs to do is follow the marchers that want to meet the caravan at the border and scoop 'em all up. Anyone illegal should be given the boot for the next 5 years. I think they don't have the brains God gave to a Billy Goat.

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Well at least ICE knows where to look for them. In sanctuary cities. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Thanks to the loony tunes dems.

Here in California, they are being given drivers licenses. Now we can't call them undocumented. The new official name for them is "Documented Hit and Run Aliens!"

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Have you ever been in a car crash with an illegal? I have, his car was totaled so he jumped out and tried to run I guess he should have quit smoking cause he didn't get far. I tackled him and he punched me, it took 5 hard punches to the face to get him to stop.