ICE didn’t take a holiday break. While Americans were shopping and celebrating, immigration officers were arresting pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers, and violent criminals across the country.
And DHS is making a point: when Democrats claim ICE targets innocent people, they’re lying.
What Happened This Week
ICE arrested criminal illegal aliens convicted of:
- Aggravated sexual assault of a child
- Sexual abuse of minors
- Possession of child sexual abuse material
- Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
- Drug trafficking (cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana)
- Murder
- Rape
- Armed robbery
- Gang activity
- Escape from prison
- Voyeurism
- Child exploitation
These aren’t allegations. These are convictions. These are people with criminal records.
The Specific Cases
Cesar Ramos-Cruz (El Salvador): Convicted for indecent liberties with a child in Alamance County, North Carolina.
Jose Antonio Rodas-Ortes (Honduras): Convicted for sex offense—third degree in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Ernesto Espinosa-Hernandez (Mexico): Convicted for sexual abuse in Bronx, New York.
Rodrigo Roman Basantes (Ecuador): Convicted for sexual assault of a victim less than 13 and endangering the welfare of a child in Hudson County, New Jersey.
Roberto Guerrero-Lopez (Mexico): Convicted for abandoning or endangering a child in Burnet, Texas.
Geilond Vido-Romero (Venezuela): Tren de Aragua gang member convicted for escape of a prisoner.
Edward Roberts (Jamaica): Convicted for aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder in Chisago County, Minnesota.
Son Kim Lam (Vietnam): Convicted for robbery in Los Angeles, California.
Fernando Menocal-Rosado (Cuba): Convicted for drug trafficking, cocaine smuggling, and burglary in Miami, Florida.
Oscar Carrete (Mexico): Convicted for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in Navarro County, Texas.
Ge Her (Laos): Convicted for sex conduct third degree with force or coercion in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
Luis Alfredo Valero-Salinas (Honduras): Convicted for voyeurism in Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
Dennies Gutierrez (Cuba): Convicted for cocaine sale, manufacture, delivery, possession with intent, larceny, and burglary in Miami, Florida.
German Oswaldo Secaida (Guatemala): Convicted for sexual exploitation of a minor in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What Democrats Are Saying
Democrat politicians claim ICE is arresting innocent people. They claim ICE is conducting racial profiling. They claim ICE is separating families who just want to work.
The arrests this week prove them wrong.
These aren’t workers. These are child predators. These are drug dealers. These are murderers.
The Statistics
Here’s what DHS wants you to understand: 70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the United States.
Seven out of every ten people ICE arrests have committed crimes. That doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, gang members, terrorists, and human rights abusers.
ICE isn’t rounding up innocent immigrants. ICE is targeting dangerous criminals.
The New Website
DHS launched a new website: wow.dhs.gov (Worst of the Worst). Americans can now search the database and see for themselves who ICE is arresting, what crimes they committed, and what communities they were removed from.
No more debate. No more speculation. Just facts.
Here are the criminals ICE is removing. Here’s what they did. Here’s where they were arrested.
Why This Matters
When a Democrat politician says “ICE is targeting innocent people,” they’re claiming these pedophiles and murderers are innocent. They’re saying child predators and drug traffickers deserve to stay in America.
That’s what they’re actually arguing.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said it directly: “As Democrat politicians try to bamboozle the American public and assert DHS law enforcement is not targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, our brave ICE law enforcement are putting their lives on the line to remove pedophiles, drug traffickers, and other violent thugs from American neighborhoods.”
She’s right. Every single day, ICE is arresting people convicted of heinous crimes.
The Cost to ICE Officers
While making these arrests, ICE officers face:
- A 1,000% increase in assaults against them
- An 8,000% increase in death threats
- Being called Nazis
- Being compared to secret police
- Physical attacks
- Organized protests at their homes
And they keep showing up. They keep making arrests. They keep removing dangerous criminals.
The Bottom Line
This week, ICE arrested 20+ criminal illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes, drug trafficking, murder, and violence. These are documented criminals with convictions.
When Democrats say ICE targets innocent people, they’re wrong. Dead wrong.
The arrests speak for themselves. Visit wow.dhs.gov and see it for yourself.
These are the people ICE is removing from American communities. These are the criminals being taken off the streets. These are the dangers being eliminated.
That’s what law enforcement looks like when it actually works.
As Democrat politicians deny DHS is targeting and removing the worst of the worst, below are more examples of arrests ICE made across the country yesterday:
