Federal immigration brokers have nabbed greater than 10,000 migrant gangbangers because the begin of President Trump’s second time period, the US Division of Homeland Safety introduced Wednesday.
The milestone, reached only a 12 months and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, contains arrests tied to homicide, assault with a lethal weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, theft and extortion, in accordance with DHS.
“Many of those gang members have been launched into our nation by Joe Biden,” mentioned DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin. “These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized harmless People for sport.”
“Due to the Safe America Act, ICE is turbocharged to arrest much more gang members and criminals from American neighborhoods,” Mullin added, referring to the $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package deal handed by Congress earlier this month.
The company’s 10,000th arrest got here when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers collared Javier Hernandez Rosas, an unlawful migrant from Mexico and an alleged member of the terrorist group MS-13, whose rap sheet included a cocaine possession conviction and arrests for abduction and weapon possession.
Among the many different most harmful gang members swept up below the Trump administration have been seven further MS-13 associates – together with Salvadorian migrant Josue Saul Garcia-Lopez, who was nabbed in Harrisonburg, Virginia, final month.
Garcia-Lopez was wished internationally for his position in extortion and theft schemes in El Salvador, and had been arrested beforehand for illegal firearms possession and disorderly conduct, the division mentioned.
Two different MS-13 gang members from El Salvador – Danny Granados-Garcia and David Antonio Aviles Perez – have been taken into custody throughout separate ICE operations in Connecticut in April and California in March, respectively.
Each males have been wished for homicide of their house nation. Granados-Garcia was accused of killing a pastor. Perez, in the meantime, had prior arrests in California for assault with a lethal weapon, possession of a managed substance and petty theft.
Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, one other MS-13 gangbanger from El Salvador, was nabbed in Virginia in February.
Hernandez confessed to 5 savage murders in his house nation – together with the dwell dismemberment of 1 sufferer, Assistant DHS Sec. Tricia McLaughlin mentioned on the time of his arrest.
The worst of the worst MS-13 members arrested by ICE in current months additionally embody Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, who was wished in his house nation of Honduras for a quadruple murder; Ismael Enrique Mendoza Flores, who dedicated aggravated murder in El Salvador and had a previous arrest for unauthorized use of a automobile within the US; and Nelson Vladimir Amaya-Benitez, whose legal historical past included armed theft, theft and malicious second-degree burning, in accordance with DHS.
The division has additionally taken quite a few members of the vicious Venezuelan jail gang Tren de Aragua off the streets – together with Venezuelan nationwide Yorvis Michel Carrascal Campo, who was charged with homicide, racketeering and drug trafficking earlier than he was nabbed in Colorado in January.
Recognized TdA member Jesus Ruben Lopez Garcia – whose prolonged rap sheet contains theft, assault, legal possession of a firearm and obstructing regulation enforcement – was additionally collared in Oregon in February.
Christhian Ortega-Lopez — a suspected member of TdA — was dwelling with ex-New Mexico choose Jose “Joel” Cano after they have been each taken into custody in February 2025.
The disgraced choose and his spouse have been slapped with federal expenses associated to alleged proof tampering whereas harboring the unlawful migrant. Ortega-Lopez pleaded responsible to illegally possessing firearms and conspiracy to destroy proof after his arrest.
Gangbangers aren’t the one ones getting the boot.
As of final week, the federal government had deported practically 900,000 unlawful immigrants from US soil since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.
