Exclusive | ICE has arrested 10,000 migrant gang members so far in Trumps second term, DHS reveals
Federal immigration agents have nabbed more than 10,000 migrant gangbangers since the start of President Trump’s second term, the US Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The milestone, reached just a year and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, includes arrests tied to murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion, according to DHS.“Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe Biden,” said DHS Sec.Markwayne Mullin.
“These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport.” “Thanks to the Secure America Act, ICE is turbocharged to arrest even more gang members and criminals from American neighborhoods,” Mullin added, referring to the $70 billion immigration enforcement funding package passed by Congress earlier this month. The agency’s 10,000th arrest came when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collared Javier Hernandez Rosas, an illegal migrant from Mexico and an alleged member of the terrorist organization MS-13, whose rap sheet included a cocaine possession conviction and arrests for abduction and weapon possession. Among the other most dangerous gang members swept up under the Trump administration were seven additional MS-13 affiliates – including Salvadorian migrant Josue Saul Garcia-Lopez, who was nabbed in Harrisonburg, Virginia, last month. Garcia-Lopez was wanted internationally for his role in extortion and robbery schemes in El Salvador, and had been arrested previously for unlawful firearms possession and disorderly conduct, the department said. Two other MS-13 gang members from El Salvador – Danny Granados-Garcia and David Antonio Aviles Perez – were taken into custody during separate ICE operations in Connecticut in April and California in March, respectively. Both men were wanted for murder in their home country.Granados-Garcia was accused of killi...