U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducted operations over the Labor Day weekend that resulted in the arrests of several individuals described as criminal illegal aliens with serious criminal records. According to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, “While Americans enjoyed the holiday weekend, ICE law enforcement was hard at work arresting barbaric criminal illegal aliens. Some of the worst of the worst arrested include murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” said a DHS Spokesperson. “Our brave ICE law enforcement officers never stop working to make America safe again.”
Among those apprehended were Ricardo Duque-Rivas from Mexico, arrested by ICE Houston; his prior conviction includes aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Williamson County, Texas. In Chicago, ICE arrested Byron Ortega-Gonzalez from El Salvador for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving a minor.
Other arrests included Luis Zamora-Rodriguez from Mexico in Salt Lake City for attempted criminal homicide in Portland, Oregon; Kevin Perez-Lorenzo from the Dominican Republic in Boston for heroin trafficking and trespassing; and Theophilis Anwana from Nigeria in Baltimore for second-degree rape.
Aymen Abdu Abdu from Sudan was taken into custody by ICE Denver. He is a registered sex offender with convictions for aggravated assault and indecent exposure in Arapahoe, Colorado.
In St. Paul, Blanca Garcia-Vazquez from Mexico was arrested on charges including operating while intoxicated and child endangerment. In Washington, D.C., Luis Miguel Rodriguez-Gomez from Honduras was detained after multiple convictions including felony hit-and-run and drug possession across Virginia counties.
Juan Alfonso-Rodriguez from Uruguay was arrested twice by ICE New York City for three separate DWI convictions in Suffolk County.
Additional arrests involved Jimmy Hoang from Vietnam in Atlanta (convicted of weapons offenses and attempted murder), Desideo Cuevas-Vallejo from Mexico in Salt Lake City (convictions for substance possession and DUIs), Daniel Ortega-Pineda from Guatemala in San Antonio (smuggling persons), Francisco Sanchez-Gamora from Mexico in Chicago (homicide and other felonies), and Romero Guillen from Honduras in Dallas (hit-and-run death).
The agency reported that these actions are part of ongoing efforts to remove individuals convicted of serious crimes who are residing unlawfully within the United States.
