An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sting removed some of the “worst of the worst” over the holiday weekend.
Despite the disparaging discourse around ICE and Border Patrol efforts to clean up communities around the United States, the results truly speak for themselves. Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, Fox News reports that a sting nabbed illegal immigrants with heinous rap sheets that include “child grooming, sex and lewd acts with minors, including some under 14, possession of child pornography, domestic assault, assault with a deadly weapon, stalking and drug trafficking.”
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issued a statement on the successful operations.
“Over President’s Day weekend, the brave men and women of ICE arrested heinous criminal illegal aliens across the country convicted for sex crimes against children, rape, and drug trafficking,” she said. “These violent criminals will never be allowed to harm children and innocent Americans again.”
McLaughlin added that “nearly 70%” of the arrests involved someone who had been charged or convicted of a crime while in the United States.
“Nothing will stop ICE law enforcement from removing them from American communities,” her statement concluded.
Fox News had more details:
Over the weekend, several of those illegal alien criminals arrested by ICE had previous charges related to child sex abuse. Efren Guzman-Lopez, who is originally from Guatemala, was picked up in Texas following a conviction for indecency with child-sexual contact and child grooming. Another criminal illegal alien convicted of sex offenses with a child, specifically lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, was picked up this weekend in California. The individual originally from Mexico, Javier Millan-Salgado, was also listed on the sex offender registry, according to DHS.
Multiple individuals in California were picked up this weekend for having “sex with a minor” as well, according to DHS, while a criminal illegal alien in Missouri, Pedro Jucub, was arrested for “sexual misconduct” with a child under the age of 15. These criminal illegal aliens were from Guatemala and Mexico.
Others were arrested for acts of sexual abuse and sexual assault, including in New York and Salt Lake City.
The list continued, with two men from Mexico, Alfredo Vargas and Wilfrido Varelas-Rubio, convicted of trafficking meth, being arrested. Ever Rivera-Molina of Honduras, who was previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute crystal meth, was also picked up by ICE.
“On the East Coast, in Raleigh, North Carolina, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico arrested by ICE, Hermilio Salgado-Castro, was previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Saul Alonzo Portillo-Lopez, living in Texas when he was arrested over the weekend, had previously been convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute,” the outlet reported.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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