Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs | https://www.dhs.gov/
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of several individuals convicted of serious crimes, including sexual assault of a child, child molestation, willful cruelty to a child, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The arrests occurred despite the ongoing government shutdown.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, "These barbaric monsters who committed these crimes against innocent children should NEVER have been in our country in the first place. President Trump and Secretary Noem will not allow pedophiles and child abusers to remain in the U.S. These are LITERALLY THE WORST OF THE WORST, but thanks to our brave law enforcement, they will be deported from our country NEVER to return. Nothing will stop ICE from removing criminal illegal aliens—not terrorist attacks against them, the Democrats’ government shutdown, or even bounties on their heads to murder them."
The individuals arrested include Mariano Yanez-Conejo from Mexico, convicted of sexual assault of a child in Travis County, Texas; Humberto Perez-Vasquez from Guatemala, convicted of first-degree child molestation in Union Gap, Washington; Jose Rigoberto Lopez-Aguilar from El Salvador, convicted of willful cruelty to a child and false imprisonment in Pomona, California; Rafael Penaloza-Cabrera from Mexico, convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse with bodily harm in Chicago, Illinois; and Jose Ortiz-Jacobo from Mexico, convicted of felony sexual abuse in the first degree in Wasco County, Oregon.
