Overview
- DHS said ICE teams on Thursday apprehended five noncitizens with prior convictions, including a Dallas child sex offender, a Michigan homicide convict, and offenders with drug, kidnapping and organized crime records in Florida, North Carolina and Texas.
- ICE reported the Oct. 12 arrest in Sterling, Virginia, of Mexican national Luis Bautista-Perez, who is wanted in Mexico for aggravated homicide and is in custody pending removal proceedings.
- In Victoria, Texas, officers captured Cambodian national Savin Seng after a brief manhunt, recovering a loaded firearm; ICE says he is wanted in two murders and now faces state and federal charges with multi-agency assistance.
- Additional arrests announced this week include Indian national Varinder Singh in Boston on a cocaine-distribution conspiracy conviction and multiple convicted offenders in New York, Georgia, Delaware and California.
- DHS says ICE officers are designated essential and currently working without pay during the shutdown, and the department attributes the funding lapse to Democrats while pledging to continue targeted operations.