Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs | https://www.dhs.gov/
During the ongoing government shutdown, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued to arrest individuals convicted of serious crimes, including aggravated sexual assault of a child, manslaughter, assault, domestic abuse with a dangerous weapon, attempted drug trafficking, and burglary.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, "Our brave ICE law enforcement will NOT BE DETERRED by the Democrats’ government shutdown or by violence against them from removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from our communities. Our officers continue to risk their lives every day to arrest criminal illegal aliens despite not getting paid and the more than 1000% increase in assaults against them. Just yesterday, DHS arrested criminal illegal aliens convicted of child sex crimes, assault, domestic abuse, manslaughter, drug trafficking, and burglary. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem criminals are not welcome in the United States."
Among those arrested were Jose Alberto Hernandez-Alvarado from Mexico for aggravated sexual assault of a child in Dallas County, Texas; Kemar Hamilton from Jamaica for manslaughter and assault in Bronx, New York; Walid Soualmia from Algeria for domestic abuse assault first offense with a dangerous weapon and intimidation with a dangerous weapon in Cherokee County, Iowa; Hugo Martinez-Jaimes from Mexico for attempting to traffic cocaine by possession in Columbus County, North Carolina; and William Sierra-Galeano from Colombia for attempted burglary in White Plains, New York.
