by Caroline – May8 Feb 2016 – Breitbart

www.ice.gov

More than 80 criminal aliens were arrested in Utah during a multi-day sweep across the state last week for crimes the Obama administration has deemed serious enough to warrant deportation proceedings.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested the 82 criminal aliens across 22 counties in the state, with the most arrests occurring in Salt Lake City and West Valley City.

The criminal aliens ICE took into custody in the seven-day long sweep all had prior criminal convictions. According to ICE, those convictions included “driving under the influence (DUI), burglary, resisting officer, making a false report, hit and run, obstructing a police officer, forgery, damage property, cocaine possession, assault, shoplifting, narcotic equipment possession, simple assault, amphetamine possession, dangerous drugs (heroin), carrying a concealed weapon, and controlled substance distribution.”

The vast majority of the criminal aliens arrested (74) were from Mexico, another three were from Honduras, two were from Peru, one from El Salvador, one from Guatemala, and one from Samoa.

The Obama administration has protected a large swath of the illegal immigrant population from deportation not just through executive amnesty programs, but also through its priority enforcement directives. Under these dictates, ICE does not … read more here