U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that a five-day operation across Marshall, Franklin, Lawrence and Colbert counties produced more than 180 arrests of illegal aliens, among them a Mexican gang member who had been deported seven times.
The operation ran the week of October 19. ICE’s New Orleans field office, which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, led it alongside sheriff’s offices in all four counties. Each of the four sheriffs holds a 287(g) agreement with ICE, which lets trained deputies carry out federal immigration enforcement under ICE supervision…