Feds Arrest 12 Immigrant Sex Criminals

(Salt Lake City, Utah) Here's a report about 12 sex criminals who are foreign nationals from Mexico, the Congo, Germany, Sudan, Croatia, Samoa and Guatemala. They completed their jail sentences so agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decided to mosey out and round them up.

The 12 people were arrested by ICE on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Salt Lake City area. The agency and local authorities used sexual predator databases to identify them, according to Kurt Fitz-Randolph, assistant special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Utah.

The suspects were on parole or probation, Fitz-Randolph said. All of them, including some who are legal permanent residents, can be deported based on their criminal convictions, he said.

Ideally, the immigrants would have gone straight from jail into ICE custody, but their cases fell through the cracks, he said.

Falling through the cracks, eh? Some might say "sucked into the gaping chasm."