Between July 1 and July 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 259 criminal illegal aliens in the Houston metropolitan area. The 259 arrested aliens had racked up 535 total illegal entries into the United States and 642 combined arrests. They carried over 400 offenses that directly harmed Americans or endangered public safety.

The breakdown reads like a crime blotter from a war zone. Seventy aggravated assault, assault, and battery convictions. Seventy-seven burglary, robbery, and theft convictions. One hundred thirty DWI convictions. Eleven drug trafficking convictions. Twenty weapons-related convictions. And fifty-six convictions for resisting arrest or obstruction — because apparently even after all that, cooperation wasn't on the menu.

Then there are the ones that turn your stomach. Eleven sex offense convictions. Four child sex offense convictions. Three sex trafficking convictions. One kidnapping conviction.

ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations put names to some of these cases. Cesar Arain Villalobos Villagomez, a 37-year-old Mexican national, was wanted for aggravated kidnapping. Neri Farid Calix Ardon, a 31-year-old from Honduras who had already been deported once, was convicted of child sexual assault. Kevin Salvador Madrid Ochoa, 27, also from Honduras — online solicitation of a minor. Miguel Galicia, a 46-year-old from Guatemala deported twice before, was convicted of lewd acts with a child.

Denis Roberto Hernandez Castaneda, 37, from Honduras, had been deported and came back with multiple convictions waiting for him. Raymundo Toledo Flores, a 47-year-old Mexican national, had crossed illegally nine separate times and stacked up theft and DWI convictions along the way. Kiet Anh Nguyen, 53, from Vietnam, carried burglary and theft-related convictions.

Remember when we were told these were all just hardworking families looking for a better life?

The left's preferred rebuttal is that enforcement operations like this are "cruel" and "disruptive to communities." Which is an interesting way to describe removing a man convicted of child sexual assault from a neighborhood where children live. The 400-plus offenses cataloged in this two-week window weren't disrupting communities. The people committing them were.

Houston is one city. Texas is one state. The first half of July is fifteen days out of a calendar year. Extrapolate those numbers nationally and you start to understand the scale of what the previous administration left sitting in American cities — not hypothetical threats, but convicted criminals with documented records who had already been arrested, already been deported in some cases, and came right back.