DHS officer pushes back on NBC report about illegal immigrant arrest
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pushed back Wednesday over a local NBC News affiliate report about an illegal immigrant arrested in California.
on saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that federal agents arrested Gerardo, 42, as he was driving to work in San Jose.
“According to the family’s Ring video, Gerardo was in his black truck at 7:45 a.m., about to leave for a construction job when multiple individuals who appeared to be federal officers approached his truck and yelled at him to get out,” the report said.
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NBC Bay Area reported that a 42-year-old illegal immigrant was arrested outside his home on Saturday. (ICE)
The statement continued as follows: “His wife, Idalia, who said she was a US citizen, ran to the truck to stop the arrest. He said that a woman who was not in uniform hit her 22-year-old daughter with a baton, but the incident is not shown in the camera records.”
But DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in X that the local unit did not report full details about the arrested suspect.
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“Of course @NBCNews refuses to tell the American public that this illegal alien from Mexico has a criminal record: lewd and lascivious acts towards a CHILD, battery on a spouse, domestic battery, prostitution restitution, felony re-entry after deportation,” McLaughlin wrote. wrote McLaughlin.
In a longer statement to Fox News Digital, McLaughlin confirmed that ICE officers arrested Gerardo Rojas-Leyva, an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a history of battery. Rojas-Leyva did not provide identification and resisted arrest, forcing the officer to deploy his stun gun and handcuff him, McLaughlin said.
Department of Homeland Security deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin left and told Fox News Digital that Gerardo Rojas-Leyva had a criminal history. (DHS; ICE)
“Rojas-Leyva’s criminal history includes lewd and lascivious acts against a 14-15 year old child, battery on a spouse, bodily harm to a spouse/cohabitant, and proof of damages for prostitution,” McLaughlin said. he said. “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to NBC for comment.
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McLaughlin has repeatedly called out mainstream media reports about ICE arrests. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
McLaughlin previously attacked NBC over a report that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents used a 5-year-old girl with autism to pressure her father, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, into surrendering. He called the report a “disgusting slander” of ICE agents.
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“Remember that these men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers and they are sons and daughters. These are people who just want to go home to their families at night and serve our great nation,” McLaughlin said on “Fox & Friends.”
