Nearly Twice as Many Illegal Alien Child Sex Offenders Arrested under Trump Compared to Biden

In yet another noteworthy immigration enforcement accomplishment ignored by establishment media, the Trump administration nearly doubled the number of illegal alien child sex offenders arrested during Biden’s last year in a U.S. city known to be a cesspool of undocumented criminals. In Trump’s first year back in the White House, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended 414 criminal alien child predators in Houston, Texas compared to just 211 under the last administration’s final year in office. The recently arrested criminal aliens accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525 other serious crimes ranging from homicide to robbery, according to an announcement issued this week by ICE, the 20,000-employee Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency created after 9/11 to enforce immigration laws and preserve national security.

The latest roundup of child predators comes on the heels of two separate operations in Houston less than a year ago in which more than 1,000 dangerous criminal aliens were apprehended in the area, which is estimated to be home to more than half a million illegal immigrants. In the first effort ICE arrested over 350 gang members with 1,700 criminal convictions who entered the U.S. illegally more than 1,400 times. Most belonged to violent gangs, including the renowned Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Tren de Aragua, Latin Kings,15th Street Gang, Sureños, Paisas and Tango Blast and were convicted of serious crimes including homicide, sexual assault of a child, drug and sex trafficking and unlawful possession of a firearm. A few weeks later, in a separate Houston crackdown, federal authorities nabbed another 822 illegal immigrant offenders with convictions for murder, sexual assault, domestic violence and driving while intoxicated among other crimes. The figures spoke loudly about the Biden administration’s catastrophic open border policies that welcomed a record-breaking 7.6 million illegal aliens, including hundreds of thousands with serious criminal records and more than 1.7 million from countries that DHS determined pose a national security threat to the U.S.

There has been incredible progress in a little over a year under this administration despite serious resistance from local sanctuary governments that protect illegal immigrants, an increasingly powerful leftist movement, and its allies in the mainstream media. “While elected officials and media pundits across the country were zealously trying to manipulate the American public with fake news stories about ICE’s public safety mission, the brave men and women of ICE were quietly going about their business to arrest and remove more than 400 dangerous child predators from our local communities,” said the director of ICE’s Houston field office, Gabriel Martinez, this week. “Thanks to their tireless efforts, parents across Southeast Texas can sleep a little better tonight knowing that these pedophiles and child rapists are no longer a threat to their children.” The ICE Houston field office is responsible for immigration enforcement operations in 58 southeastern Texas counties situated in the state’s gulf coast from Beaumont to Corpus Christi and the Houston/Galveston area out to Waco. The busy ICE office reveals that this operation was a team effort assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), U.S. Marshals Service and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Among the child sex offenders rounded up in Houston in the last year are Alex Samuel Lara Diaz, a 35-year-old previously deported Honduran wanted in his native country for homicide and convicted in the U.S. of aggravated sexual assault of a minor. Gabriel Julio Lopez-Velazquez, a 25-year-old Mexican who entered the U.S. illegally four times has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a minor, aggravated assault, and illegal entry and twice for felony illegal reentry. Another Mexican, 48-year-old Juan Leonardo Garcia Ibarra, illegally entered the U.S. a dozen times and has been convicted of sexual indecency with a child, aggravated assault, cruelty toward a child and driving under the influence. Milton Alexander Magana Fuentes, a 32-year-old from El Salvador, entered the U.S. illegally four times and has been convicted of sexual indecency with a minor and failure to register as a sex offender. Luis Mario Monsalve Chaux, a 52-year-old Colombian, has convictions for possession of child sexual abuse material, four burglaries, and twice for larceny. The list is extensive and includes mug shots of the perpetrators.