45 people in Austin arrested in targeted regional ICE operation

SAN ANTONIO (KXAN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 145 people, described by the agency as “criminal aliens and immigration violators,” in a week-long operation in South and Central Texas that ended on Friday, Feb. 16.
Forty-five of the arrests, the most in a single city, were in Austin. Another 41 people were arrested in San Antonio, 37 in the Rio Grande Valley, 15 in Laredo and seven in Waco.
In a statement Thursday, ICE said that most of those arrested