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President Trump's immigration crackdown continues with ICE agents in Houston, Texas
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reporting more than 200 migrants apprehended by this field office alone are child sex offenders
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214 people detained by ICE in Houston over the last six months
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have either been charged with or convicted of child sex crimes. The press release from ICE says the arrest number over the past six months
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surpassed the amount of child sex offenders not by the office in all of 2024. The office
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crediting the federal government's increase of resources. The acting field office director says
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while we still have a long way to go to truly get this crisis under control
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the strides we have made in just six months to make our local communities safer are substantial
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and our officers continue to work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the worst criminal
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aliens out of Southeast Texas. According to new ysis from the deportation data project
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ICE as a whole has arrested more than 100 migrants since Trump inauguration on January 20th through late June The ysis suggests 40 percent of those arrested are convicted criminals
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For comparison, in 2024, under the Biden administration, 51,000 arrests were made and 53 percent had criminal records
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Trump's immigration crackdown is receiving mixed responses in a sharp partisan divide
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The Trump administration says they're prioritizing the worst of the worst in ICE raids
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But they also say anyone in the country illegally can be detained by ICE
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According to a new Wall Street Journal poll published Monday, 90 percent of Republican voters backed the president's approach
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while 90 percent of Democrats say Trump's deportation efforts have crossed a line
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Just over half of voters at 51 percent approve of Trump's overall handling of illegal immigration
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and 62 percent favor deporting undocumented immigrants
