With border security at the heart of the presidential election taking place in a few short days, violent crimes perpatrated by illegal aliens reflect negatively on Vice President Kamala Harris, who has taken a much more lenient stance on the border.

This was demonstrated when dozens of illegal migrants were arrested for looting in Florida after hurricanes devastated the area one after another, as the New York Post reported.

Officials in Florida's law enforcement community have reported the arrest of over a hundred individuals, including at least forty-one undocumented immigrants, on charges of stealing from and defrauding victims of hurricanes Milton and Helene.

Official Figures

Over the past three weeks, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri reported that 68 charges were filed against 45 individuals during looting operations.

These crimes included armed robbery, burglary, grand theft, destruction, trespassing, and loitering and prowling.

"They’re going into people's homes, they’re taking stuff, they’re rummaging through their things," Gualtieri said.

More Arrests

An operation purportedly targeting unlicensed contractors resulted in the arrest of another 58 people.

The bulk of their schemes, according to Gualtieri, was charging victims $250 million for repairs that were never going to be done.

"This is the epitome of people trying to exploit others when they’re down and when they’re out, and they’re trying to rebuild and they’ve got nothing," Gualtieri said.

During a press conference on Thursday, Gualtieri revealed that out of the 45 individuals apprehended by anti-looting patrols in Pinellas County, at least 41 are individuals in the country illegally. The majority of the suspects, he claimed, were Central and South American nationals.

The Suspects

Suspects arrested in the contracting scams typically offered to do projects, including plumbing, roofing and electrical work, charging a total of more than $250 million.

Gualtieri added that one suspect even had business cards to impersonate a legitimate contracting company.

"People offering to do work on their property, but, in some cases, have no intention of doing the work. In other cases, are unqualified to do the work and, in all of these cases, are unlicensed to do the work," Gualtieri said.

More Investigations

Also, the sheriff's office had conversations with 196 other people who were in the wrong beach neighborhoods, but there was no probable reason to arrest them, he said.

He added that out of those, 163 were determined to be illegal aliens: "So, we made contact with them and told them to get out," Gualtieri said.

"We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before. We’ve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are clearly just here to steal and to pilfer and to do bad things and to target these vulnerable people."