The dedicated professionals of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have been “demonized” by celebs and trashed at the Super Bowl, but they are still putting their lives on the line to arrest dangerous illegal aliens.
Despite the vilification from the likes of anti-ICE Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, who was featured during the NFL showcase event’s halftime show, the agency continued to do its work during a busy Super Bowl weekend, taking a number of dangerous foreign criminals off the streets, including a pedophile, a convicted murderer, and other assorted thugs.
Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that “despite smears from Hollywood, ICE is making our country safer every single day.”
“While ICE law enforcement was being demonized at the Super Bowl, the heroic men and women of ICE continued risking their lives to arrest criminal illegal alien murderers, pedophiles, and rapists from our communities,” she told Fox News Digital.
One person taken into custody was Mexican national Mario Rosales-Figueroa, who was arrested a few hours away from Levi’s Stadium, the site of the Super Bowl, in Visalia, California. According to the agency, the criminal illegal alien was convicted of having sex with a minor.
Also among the criminal illegal aliens swept up on the weekend of the big game were Rudy Roa-Fuentes, a citizen of the Dominican Republic and a convicted murderer who was arrested in New York.
Guatemalan national Eduardo Ramos-Domingo, who, according to DHS, was “convicted for aggravated assault-attempts to cause or causes bodily injury with a deadly weapon,” was pinched in Pennsylvania. Wilson Perez-Guzman, another Guatemalan criminal, was taken into custody in Bridgeton, Missouri. His rap sheet includes a conviction for “statutory sodomy/attempted statutory sodomy,” the agency said.
In the South, ICE arrested Mexican illegal Gustavo Alvarado-Sanchez, who is convicted for kidnapping and assault in Hidalgo, Texas, and Cuban illegal Carlos Manuel Legra-Ramirez, who is convicted for aggravated alien smuggling, was arrested in Mississippi.
The weekend haul also netted a pair of convicted burglars. Miguel Valverde-Pupo of Cuba was popped in Amarillo, Texas, and fellow Cuban Aliba Lamas-Alvarez was pinched in Miami, Florida.
“Despite smears from Hollywood, ICE is making our country safer every single day. 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S. This heated rhetoric about ICE law enforcement is leading to our officers facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them,” McLaughlin said in a press release.
Before his Super Bowl halftime performance, a political statement delivered entirely in Spanish, Bad Bunny trashed ICE while accepting an award at last weekend’s Grammys.
Bad Bunny says “ICE OUT” at the #Grammys and receives a massive standing ovation:
“We are not savage, we are not animals, we are not aliens, we are humans and we are Americans. The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love.… pic.twitter.com/IFzvguqdCR
— Variety (@Variety) February 2, 2026
“ICE out,” he declared, adding, “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens — we are humans, and we are Americans.”
A vocal critic of ICE who has often spewed profanity about agents, the rapper was blasted by President Donald J. Trump, who was no fan of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance.
“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Trump said on Truth Social.
“It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” the president added. “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”
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