CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 29 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following press release:

SEATTLE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Seattle arrested 13 unlawfully present noncitizens who have been convicted of drug trafficking or multiple drug possession related offenses involving illicit narcotics during a nationwide law enforcement effort that ran from March 11 - 26.

"Our communities have been tragically altered by drug overdose fatalities," said ERO Seattle Field Office Director Drew H. Bostock. "Slowing the proliferation of dangerous, illegal narcotics through the arrest of noncitizen drug traffickers is one important w...