The arrest of an illegal alien facing child pornography charges raised concerns over local jurisdictions impeding public safety.
Drug smuggling, human trafficking and gang violence remained prominent among the many dangers that leftist open border policies wrought on the citizenry of the United States. Now, after a 24-year-old Honduran national was arrested in Virginia on charges that included child pornography, n U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson confirmed how local authorities could allow “criminal noncitizens…back into our communities…”
According to a report from Fox 5 Washington, D.C., Gherson Gonzales-Hernandez was arrested on Feb. 9 by Fairfax County Police facing charges that included 10 counts related to child pornography material and two counts of unlawful creation of a videographic or still image of a minor.
While the image charges were related to an Aug. 2019 offense and described as the unlawful filming of a minor without consent, the child pornography charges were said to be part of a Nov. 2023 offense.
In a statement to Fox 5, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) spokesman James Covington detailed, “Gherson Djorkaeff Gonzales-Hernandez is a 24-year-old unlawfully present Honduran national. He was arrested by Fairfax County Police Feb. 9, and charged with multiple crimes related to child sexual abuse material.”
The spokesman also laid out how the federal agency needed compliance from local officials if they hoped to have the illegal alien removed from the country.
“ICE ERO Washington, D.C. lodged an immigration detainer against Gonzales-Hernandez with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center following his arrest Feb. 9. As part of our mission to identify and arrest removable noncitizens, ERO lodges immigration detainers against noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity and taken into custody by state or local law enforcement,” the statement said of requests that ask local jurisdictions to maintain custody for a period “not to exceed 48 hours” wherein they would otherwise be released to transfer custody.
“Lack of cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officers means criminal noncitizens are released back into our communities with opportunity to reoffend before being apprehended by ERO,” said Covington.
Despite soft-on-crime jurisdictions where politicians have sanctuary city policies, a separate statement from ICE ERO issued Friday confirmed the apprehension of nearly 300 illegal alien sex offenders nationwide in a 10-day span during February.
ICE Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director Patrick J. Lechleitner said in a statement after the sting between Feb. 5-16, “Thanks to the around-the-clock efforts of our ERO officers, our communities are safe from 275 individuals who have demonstrated their willingness to commit sex crimes against innocent people, including children.”
The early February arrests followed a reported 171 nationwide in January that include felons convicted of aggravated sexual assault with a firearm, attempted sexual abuse 1st degree and continuous sexual abuse of a child, among others.
Fox 5 indicated that the arrest warrant for Gonzales-Hernandez had him slated for court appearances in April and May.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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