NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

In the span of just over one year, the defendant purchased 91 firearms and 40,000 rounds of ammunition

WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to a guilty plea by a criminal illegal alien who bought over 90 guns for the purpose of re-selling them to anyone who could buy them, including people who couldn't legally buy them.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced that Samuel Rodrigo Melo Santos, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, pleaded...