Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it arrested 11 migrants from Iran over the weekend — and one American citizen who was harboring an Iranian illegal immigrant and threatened to kill an ICE officer attempting to make the arrest.

One of the targets is accused of being an Iranian army sniper, another has ties to Hezbollah and a third is deemed a known or suspected terrorist.

Several others were caught with guns when they were arrested — a violation of federal law, which generally bars illegal immigrants from possessing firearms.

In one arrest in Arizona on Sunday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at a residence to arrest Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, whose record includes a gun conviction and a conviction for threatening a law enforcement officer and who agreed to leave the U.S. in 2013 but never followed through.

When agents made that arrest, a woman at the residence, Linet Vartaniann, threatened to “shoot ICE officers in the head,” Homeland Security said. She was also arrested on charges of threatening an officer and harboring an illegal immigrant.

“We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out — and we are,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

Most of the 11 had been longtime U.S. residents, including many who were ordered deported but never left. One, who has two drug convictions on his record, was told to go in 2005 and defied that order for two decades.

A man whose record includes child abuse and drug convictions was ordered removed in 1987. He was living with an Iranian who came in 2023 during the Biden years.

Another, who had a firearms conviction, was deemed to be a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with connections to Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist organization. He was ordered removed three years ago but was still here.

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.