Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs | https://www.dhs.gov/
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the arrest of several individuals described as “worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.” The arrests involved people with prior convictions for crimes such as indecent sexual contact with a child, manslaughter, aggravated robbery, theft, and criminal possession of a weapon.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin commented on the recent operations: “Despite vile rhetoric and continued assaults on our ICE law enforcement officers, they continue to risk their lives every single day to arrest criminal illegal aliens convicted of child sex crimes, homicide, aggravate robbery, and other violent criminals. Our brave law enforcement are heroes Americans can be proud of,” she said. “Our ICE officers are facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them as they carry out operations to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods. Our brave law enforcement will not be deterred from enforcing the law and getting heinous criminals out of our country.”
The individuals arrested include Javier Perez-Garcia from Mexico, who was convicted of indecent sexual contact with a child in Hopkins County, Texas; Jose Nehemias Zavala-Mejia from El Salvador, convicted of aggravated robbery in Finney County, Kansas; Carlos Vasquez-Castro from Mexico, convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in Queens, New York; Adan Guerrero-Gonzalez from Mexico, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Hardeeville, South Carolina; and Mirna Mendez-Escamilla from Mexico, convicted of theft in Ogden, Utah.
