Seventy percent of arrests made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involve non-citizens who have been charged with or convicted of crimes in the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
On January 29, DHS reported a new round of arrests targeting individuals described as criminal illegal aliens. These individuals were apprehended across several states for crimes including aggravated child rape, robbery, and sexual assault.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, "The American people gave President Trump a mandate, and that was to make America safe again by removing public safety threats from our streets and neighborhoods. Just yesterday, federal law enforcement arrested pedophiles, violent assailants, and robbers from our communities. If you come to our country illegally, break our laws, we will find you, we will arrest you, and you will NEVER return."
Among those arrested were Ramos Ciprian Gutierrez from Guatemala, convicted of aggravated sexual assault and indecency with a child in Dallam County, Texas; Misael Espinosa from Cuba, convicted of lewd and lascivious exhibition in the presence of a child in Dixie County, Florida; Manuel De Jesus Severino-Brito from the Dominican Republic, convicted of sexual assault in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Robert Kuta from Mauritania, convicted of burglary, robbery, malicious wounding and use of a firearm in Richmond, Virginia; and Walter Jeovany Coto-Ortiz from Honduras, convicted of robbery in Pasadena, California.
Further information about these arrests is available on the DHS website at WOW.DHS.Gov.
