Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs | https://www.dhs.gov/
Despite a lapse in government funding, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will continue its operations targeting individuals convicted of serious crimes. The agency emphasized that arrests and deportations of those identified as violent offenders or involved in crimes such as sexual assault, murder, and human trafficking will proceed.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, “Despite a lapse in funding, ICE will continue to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens including rapists, pedophiles, murderers, gang members and terrorists from our country. Thanks to the Trump Administration’s signature piece of legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill, we will continue to hire, train, and deploy law enforcement across the country to make America safe again,” she said. “Democratic politicians have villainized our brave ICE law enforcement calling them the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and kidnappers, and now they are putting our officers’ families under financial strains. They might put politics first, but we won’t — the deportations will continue. We will continue to put the safety of the American people FIRST.”
Recent arrests highlighted by DHS include Mauricio Ibarra-Cruz from Mexico who was convicted of sexual assault of a child in Lubbock County, Texas; Joshua Alexander Cortez-Ramirez from Mexico convicted on charges related to child cruelty and sexual offenses in Tehama, California; Gerzain Gomez from Mexico convicted of second-degree murder in Los Angeles; Yujian Zheng from China convicted for alien smuggling-related offenses in Saipan; and Mario Torres-Herrera from Guatemala convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon in Framingham, Massachusetts.
