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Thousands of Illegal Alien Child Predators Captured

by Jim Kouri, CPP

Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that
arrests during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded
6,000.

Operation Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive
initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles,
international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human
traffickers. Operation Predator evolved out of ICE's mission to find and
deport illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The
majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have
involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex crimes make them
removable from the United States. By matching immigration databases with
state Megan's law directories, ICE agents have arrested more than 1,800
registered sex offenders.

Since Operation Predator began on July 9, 2003, the initiative has resulted
in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the country - an average of
roughly 250 arrests per month and eight arrests per day. While arrests have
been made in every state, the most have occurred in these states: Arizona
(207), California (1,578), Florida (255), Illinois (282), Michigan (153),
Minnesota (190), New Jersey (423), New York (367), Oregon (148) and Texas
(545).

Operation Predator also has an important international component, as leads
developed by domestic ICE offices are shared with ICE Attache' offices
overseas and foreign law enforcement for action. To date, leads shared by
ICE with foreign authorities have resulted in the arrest of roughly 1,000
individuals overseas.

"With an average of nearly 250 child sex predator arrests per month, ICE's
Operation Predator has emerged as one of most successful efforts ever
launched to protect America's children. In enforcing the nation's
immigration laws, ICE is systematically targeting those who pose the
greatest threats, including criminal aliens who prey on our children.

Some recent ICE arrests involving criminal aliens who committed child sex
crimes include Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a Mexican man who raped a
four-year-old child in the basement of Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minn.
Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty Oct. 23, 2002 to first-degree criminal sexual
conduct. After serving his criminal sentence, he was arrested by ICE agents
at his St. Paul home on March 3, 2005, and deported six days later.

To date, more than 2,100 of these foreign-born predators have been removed
from the United States to their home nations. As part of this process, ICE
advises the host nation governments about the criminal histories of each sex
predator it is deporting to their nations. ICE also issues Green Notices
through Interpol in appropriate cases. The Green Notice provides information
on career criminals who have committed, or are likely to commit, offenses in
several countries.


Sources: US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, National Security Institute

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association
of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in
Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war
in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New
Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations.
He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and
security officers throughout the country. He writes for many police and
crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer,
Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others, and he's a columnist for
TheConservativeVoice.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100
TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN
Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available
at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and can be ordered at local bookstores.
Kouri holds a bachelor of science in criminal justice and master of arts in
public administration and he's a board certified protection professional.

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