Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, working with state law enforcement, arrested more than 200 illegal immigrant gang members during an operation in northern Virginia over the first two weeks of this month.

ICE said in a news release Thursday that the operation ran from March 1-13 and focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders.”

The operation began shortly after Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order instructing state police to assist with federal immigration enforcement, including the removal of illegal aliens in the state.

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