ICE detains 26 offenders reporting for community service.

Agents for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained 26 offenders suspected of being undocumented as they reported for community service Sunday morning at a Tarrant County Jail facility north of downtown.

David McClelland, chief of staff for Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, said the Sheriff’s Department was contacted about a week ago by federal agents asking for information about people in the work detail, a program for those who are on probation and are working off part of their sentences.

McClelland said those detained Sunday at the Cold Springs Road work detail facility had convictions of high-level misdemeanors and low-level felonies.

Carl Rusnok, ICE spokesman for the Dallas region, declined to give specifics regarding the Sunday roundup.

“ICE officers are conducting ongoing immigration enforcement operations in North Texas. No further details are available until the conclusion of this operation,” Rusnok said in an emailed statement. “ICE routinely conducts immigration enforcement operations locally and nationwide which help improve overall public safety by removing criminal aliens from our communities, and ultimately from our country.

Waybourn has pledged to crack down on undocumented immigrants, especially those convicted of crimes. After after he took office in January, he applied to take part in a federal program that would train jailers to screen for undocumented immigrants in the Tarrant County Jail.

Nice to see law enforcement doing their job for a change.

Good work!!

And their community service should be for them to push the bus loads of illegals back over the boarder.. then stay there. save the taxpayers the gas cost

after working on the border wall