29 Alleged Foreign Gang Members Taken into Custody in Nevada
Attorneys practicing the criminal defense of aliens in Nevada may have some new clients: Earlier this month U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) orchestrated a three-day gang enforcement operation in Las Vegas and Mesquite, resulting in the arrest of twenty-nine gang members and gang associates from Mexico, El Salvador, Afghanistan, and the Bahamas. Some of them are charged with re-entry after having been deported while others are foreign nationals being processed for removal, and most of them have serious criminal histories.
This latest round of arrests was part of Operation Community Shield, where ICE’s National Gang Unit joins forces with other law enforcement agencies to capture dangerous trans-national gangs. For this operation, ICE recruited the help of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Mesquite Police Department, the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Division of Parole and Probation and Division of Immigrants.
Since Operation Community Shield started in early 2005, ICE has taken more than 14,000 gang members into custody. The recent arrestees in Nevada are currently in removal proceedings and will remain in custody until a deportation hearing.
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