The Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) reported on July 14 that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers arrested a bunch of legal sexual predators and pedophiles who had been within the nation illegally.
“Over the weekend, our brave ICE agents arrested monstrous illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes, including rape of a child, sexual assault, and possession of child pornography,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin stated in an announcement.
McLaughlin famous that though brokers are dealing with a virtually 700 p.c improve in assaults, they continue to be dedicated to creating American communities safer daily.
“We will only double down in getting these dangerous criminals off of our streets,” she stated.
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 baby and for “indecent liberties” with a baby 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 legal 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 legal of Mexican origin who had beforehand been convicted of kid abuse and battery.
Houston ICE brokers arrested Sergio Guerrero-Galván, an unlawful immigrant legal 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 legal from Mexico convicted of aggravated sexual assault in Houston.
DHS famous in a put up on social media platform X that beneath 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 had been “criminals with convictions for rape, serial burglary, hit and run, and DUIs,” McLaughlin stated in a July 13 assertion.
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