Eleven suspected sex offenders are off the street in Indiana, and Homeland Security says four of them shouldn't have been on that street in the first place. All four are illegal aliens, each from a different country. WRG News has the details.

DHS confirmed the breakdown this week after the sting operation wrapped. Eleven suspects total, all accused of sex offenses, four confirmed illegal aliens from four separate countries. The usual crowd will pretend that part doesn't exist, but it does.

I spent 26 years in the Border Patrol and I can tell you how this works. A sting operation targeting sex offenders pulls in whoever shows up, and when the bookings run through the system, the immigration detainers start stacking up. Four out of eleven is better than a third of the haul, and every enforcement officer in the country knows that pattern by heart.

A detainer, for those who don't speak the language, is the hold ICE places on an illegal alien in local custody. It asks the jail to keep the person long enough for ICE to come get them. In sanctuary jurisdictions they ignore those holds and dump the aliens back onto the street. Indiana isn't playing that game, at least not here, and the count is better for it.

The four aliens came from four different countries, which tells you the pipeline isn't one route or one region. It's global, and it runs straight through a broken border. Every one of those four had to get in somehow, stay somehow, and avoid removal somehow, long enough to end up in a hotel room or a chat log waiting for a sting to close around them. Four failures stacked on top of each other before the sex offense charge even enters the picture.

Now the processing begins. The illegal aliens face their criminal charges first, then removal proceedings after. That's the standard sequence: criminal accountability here, then a trip home. Assuming some judge doesn't find a creative reason to block it, which in this climate is always a live possibility.

Expect the usual advocates to say this proves nothing, that most illegal aliens are hardworking folks and these four are outliers. Maybe so. Doesn't change the fact that four suspected sex offenders were in this country illegally and are now in custody, and that a fifth, sixth, and seventh are out there somewhere waiting for the next operation to find them. Eleven suspects caught is a good day. The four who were here illegally in the first place are the part we were never supposed to notice.

Homeland Security put the numbers out plainly, and I'll do the same.

11 suspects arrested. 4 illegal aliens from 4 countries. 0 of them on the street tonight.

The count holds.