This must make Democrats very upsetGeorgia ICE sweep nabs over 700 criminal illegal aliens, including sex offenders, child abusersFederal immigration officers arrested more than 1,200 illegal immigrants in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, including 720 who DHS said had been convicted of or charged with crimes. Speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Marcos Charles, executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, said the sweep took violent criminals, including sex offenders and child abusers, off the streets. “We arrested over 1,200 aliens, illegal aliens, out in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. More than half of those people had criminal histories,” Charles said. The Department of Homeland Security announced online that the sweep, Operation Safe Community – Atlanta, focused on criminal illegal immigrants.