Halloween weekend sweep nets convicted sex offenders, killers, kidnappers

FIRST ON FOX: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its crackdown on “worst of the worst” dangerous illegal immigrants over Halloween weekend, arresting criminals convicted of underage sex, sexual assault, kidnapping, murder and other serious crimes.

According to a statement made to Fox News Digital, the Department of Homeland Security emphasized that 70 percent of ICE arrests consist of illegal criminals accused or convicted of a crime in the United States.

Sisawang Khambounheuang, a Laotian vigilante, was arrested by ICE after being convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in San Diego. Just north, another criminal illegal alien, Milton Rene Mendez-Arevalo of Guatemala, was arrested after being convicted of kidnapping in Los Angeles.

In Houston, where ICE arrested more than 120 illegal immigrants over the weekend, the agency captured Honduran fugitive Hector Eugenio Ramirez-Martinez, who was convicted of child sexual indecency in Harris County. Another, Francisco Nava-Garcia of Mexico, was arrested in Houston after being convicted of assault on a family/household member.

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Elsewhere in Texas, ICE arrested Kunal Chhetri, an illegal alien from India who was convicted of alien smuggling in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

ICE also continued its crackdown in Florida, arresting Lazaro Mateo Ruiz, a Cuban man convicted of murder, assault and robbery in Miami-Dade County. ICE arrested Juan Gomez-Gutierrez, a Colombian man convicted of conspiring to distribute five kilograms of cocaine while aboard a ship in Tampa, Florida’s gulf coast.

Another drug distributor, Juan Brito-Rios of Mexico, was arrested by ICE after his conviction in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee for possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five kilograms or more of cocaine, and money laundering.

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ICE and several other federal officers during an immigration enforcement operation in the Houston, Texas area. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

In Illinois, a sanctuary state that has resisted pressure from the Trump administration, ICE arrested Brigidio Ovido Gomez Garcia, a Guatemalan man convicted of aggravated domestic battery/strangulation, domestic battery and driving under the influence in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago.

Commenting on the arrests, DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin noted that despite objections from pro-sanctuary politicians, 70 percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens who have been charged or convicted of a crime in the United States.

“President Trump and Secretary Noem have unleashed ICE to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American communities,” McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.

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Minister Donald Trump He recently said he believes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids “do not go far enough” when asked about the federal agency’s tactics that have led to protests and lawsuits. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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“Despite the Democrats’ government shutdown, ICE continues to arrest criminal illegal aliens across the country,” he continued. “While Americans were enjoying their weekends, ICE was hard at work removing the worst from our streets, including pedophiles, murderers, and kidnappers.”