US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its crackdown on the “worst of the worst” dangerous illegal immigrants over Halloween weekend, detaining criminals convicted of intercourse with minors, sexual abuse, kidnapping, homicide, and other serious crimes.
According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, 70 percent of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens who have been charged or convicted in the United States.
Sisawang Khambounheuang, a criminal alien from Laos, was detained by ICE after being found guilty of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in San Diego. Just to the north, Milton Rene Mendez-Arevalo, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested in Los Angeles after being convicted of kidnapping.
In Houston, where ICE detained over 120 illegal immigrants over the weekend, the agency apprehended Honduran criminal illegal Hector Eugenio Ramirez-Martinez, who was convicted of indecency with minor sexual contact in Harris County. Francisco Nava-Garcia, a Mexican, was arrested in Houston after being convicted of assaulting a family/household member.
In Texas, ICE arrested Kunal Chhetri, an illegal alien from India who had been convicted of alien smuggling in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
ICE also continued its campaign in Florida, detaining Lazaro Mateo Ruiz, a Cuban who was convicted of homicide, weapon offense, and robbery in Miami-Dade County. ICE captured Juan Gomez-Gutierrez, a Colombian, on Florida’s Gulf Coast after he was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine while aboard a sailboat in Tampa.
Juan Brito-Rios, a Mexican drug distributor, was arrested by ICE after being convicted in the United States Middle District Court of Tennessee of possessing with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five kilos or more of cocaine, and engaging in money laundering.
In Illinois, a sanctuary state that has been opposing the Trump administration’s crackdown, ICE detained Brigidio Ovido Gomez Garcia, a Guatemalan who was convicted of aggravated domestic battery/strangle, domestic battery, and driving under the influence in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin commented on the arrests, stating that despite opposition from pro-sanctuary lawmakers, 70 percent of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the United States.
“President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American communities,” McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.
“Despite the Democrats’ government shutdown, ICE is continuing to arrest criminal illegal aliens across the country,” she continued. “While Americans enjoyed their weekends, ICE was hard at work getting the worst of the worst off our streets—including pedophiles, murderers, and kidnappers.”