AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- The Texas Office of the Attorney General announced Wednesday it detained 35 immigrants present in the country illegally and turned them over to federal law enforcement for deportation.

The arrests were made by the agency's Criminal Investigative Division (CID) in "multiple metropolitan areas" around the state. Those arrested were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“The invasion of illegal aliens encouraged by the Biden Administration represented one of the greatest threats to national sovereignty in our history," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a news release. "We will defend the American homeland by deporting the illegal aliens threatening to alter the fabric of our country.”

The agency entered into a 287(g) agreement with the f

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