U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the recent arrests of several individuals described as criminal illegal aliens, convicted of serious offenses such as sexual assault of a child, felony assault, and drug distribution.
According to Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “With each arrest, ICE is getting pedophiles, drug dealers and violent criminals out of our country. Nothing will deter ICE from fulfilling the President’s mandate to arrest the worst of the worst from American communities. Our brave ICE law enforcement is facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them as they carry out operations to make America safe again.”
Among those arrested were Carlos Salvador Chacon-Franco from Honduras, convicted for sexual assault of a child in Smith County, Texas; Perez Benancio from the Dominican Republic, convicted for possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jose Sanchez-Martinez from El Salvador, convicted for felony assault with intent to kill while armed in Washington, D.C.; Ramiro Garcia-Rodriges from Honduras, convicted for carrying a prohibited weapon in Bay Minette, Alabama; and Enresto Armenta Lopez from Mexico, convicted for assault with a deadly weapon with force: possible great bodily injury in Ontario, California.
ICE stated that these arrests are part of ongoing efforts to remove individuals who have committed severe crimes and are present illegally in the United States.
