The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) reported on July 14 that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers arrested a bunch of felony sexual predators and pedophiles who have been within the nation illegally.
“Over the weekend, our courageous ICE brokers arrested monstrous unlawful aliens convicted of heinous crimes, together with rape of a kid, sexual assault, and possession of kid pornography,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin mentioned in an announcement.
McLaughlin famous that though brokers are dealing with a virtually 700 % enhance in assaults, they continue to be dedicated to creating American communities safer every single day.
“We’ll solely double down in getting these harmful criminals off of our streets,” she mentioned.
Amongst these detained are Porfirio Bernal-Fregoso, a 45-year-old unlawful immigrant from Mexico arrested in Atlanta over the weekend for making an attempt to rape a toddler and for “indecent liberties” with a toddler in Durham County, North Carolina.
Moreover, ICE brokers in Baltimore arrested Edwin Gómez-Cervantes, an unlawful immigrant from Guatemala who had been convicted of sexual abuse of a minor in Higher Marlboro, Maryland; and Rodrigo Alexander Gómez-Ventura, an unlawful immigrant felony from El Salvador who had been convicted in Hagerstown, Maryland, for possession of kid pornography.
Over the weekend in Salt Lake Metropolis, ICE brokers arrested Juan Hernan Camarena-Cuevas, a 32-year-old unlawful immigrant felony of Mexican origin who had beforehand been convicted of kid abuse and battery.
Houston ICE brokers arrested Sergio Guerrero-Galván, an unlawful immigrant felony from Mexico who had been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a minor in Travis County, Texas, amongst different crimes.
In the meantime, in San Antonio, ICE brokers arrested Hugo Sánchez-Benítez, an unlawful immigrant felony from Mexico convicted of aggravated sexual assault in Houston.
DHS famous in a submit on social media platform X that underneath the Trump administration, ICE is working across the clock to detain “the worst of the worst” criminals in American communities.
On July 10, ICE detained 361 unlawful immigrants and encountered 14 unaccompanied minors throughout an operation at two marijuana farms in Southern California, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem informed NBC’s “Meet the Press” on July 13.
Amongst these arrested have been “criminals with convictions for rape, serial housebreaking, hit and run, and DUIs,” McLaughlin mentioned in a July 13 assertion.
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