The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported on May 12 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Dinh Quy Nguyen, a Vietnamese national convicted of attempted capital murder of a police officer and burglary, in Houston.
ICE officers arrested Nguyen on May 5 in Houston. Nguyen entered the United States in 1977, was convicted in 1989, and received a final order of removal in 1997. DHS said he was released in 2011 because Vietnam would not accept repatriation at the time, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Texas Department of Public Safety records show that from June 2011 through April 2026, more than 335,000 illegal noncitizens were booked into local Texas jails and faced more than 599,000 criminal charges, including 1,124 homicide charges, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.Â
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement publishes Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics covering arrests, detentions, removals, and alternatives to detention, according to ICE.Â
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the former U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to ICE.Â
