Over 350 Convicted Illegal Alien Gangbangers with Multiple Convictions Arrested in Texas

The Biden administration’s destructive open borders policy has lasting repercussions. Fortunately, the Trump administration is taking action to clean up this disaster, as our Corruption Chronicles blog explains:

In yet another important immigration story ignored by the mainstream media, federal authorities in Texas arrested more than 350 gang members with a distressing 1,700 criminal convictions who entered the United States illegally over 1,400 times. The unbelievable figures speak 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 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determined pose a national security threat to the U.S. Fortunately, the Trump administration is working to clean up the mess by cracking down on criminal aliens with an aggressive nationwide initiative known as Operation Take Back America that aims to repel the invasion of illegal immigration and protect American communities from perpetrators of violent crimes.

The administration assures it is targeting the “worst of the worst,”criminal aliens for arrest and removal even as most media outlets spin the narrative to focus exclusively on heartless polices that separate families and victimize hard-working migrants. In this recent Texas case, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a six-month operation that nabbed hundreds of illegal aliens convicted of a “wide variety of offenses,” including homicide, sexual assault of a child, promotion of child pornography, burglary, drug and sex trafficking, arson, unlawful possession of a firearm and domestic violence, among other crimes. Most are members of violent gangs, including the renowned Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Tren de Aragua, Latin Kings, 15th Street Gang, Sureños, Paisas and Tango Blast. “Despite attempts by some to undermine the courageous work being done by our officers, the brave men and women of ICE continue to put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent transnational gang members, foreign fugitives and dangerous criminal aliens,” said Gabriel Martinez, the acting director of ICEs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston. Martinez added that in the past couple of years gang members in Houston brutally raped and murdered a 12-year-old girl on her way to the store. “Our officers know their efforts can help prevent atrocities like that from every occurring again and they won’t rest until they’re all gone,” the Houston ICE ERO director said.

Federal authorities are providing mug shots and detailed criminal histories of the worst offenders, making it easy to report this critical story that clearly illustrates the urgency to enforce immigration laws after four years of devastating open border policies. Among those rounded up in the recent Houston operation is Milton Alexander Magana Fuentes, a 31-year-old child predator from El Salvador and member of the Paisas gang convicted of sexual indecency with a child, failure to register as a sex offender and illegal reentry into the U.S. Ronald Alberto Rivas-Aguilar, a 28-year-old MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, has been convicted of homicide yet illegally entered the U.S. twice. A 45-year-old Paisas gang member (Humberto Romero Avila), who entered the U.S. illegally 10 times, has four convictions for driving while intoxicated (DWI) as well as convictions for larceny and is wanted in his native Mexico for homicide. A 35-year-old Mexican Paisas gangbanger, Juan Pablo Hernandez Ramos, has convictions for possessing and promoting child pornography, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.

The disturbing list goes on and on with another Mexican Paisas gang member, 39-year-old Jose Angel Martinez, convicted of sexual indecency with a minor, aggravated assault and burglary and a 43-year-old Tango Blast gang member from Mexico with four DWI convictions, two hit-and-run convictions, burglary, drug possession, assault and larceny. Other members of dangerous gangs recently deported have convictions for drug possession and trafficking, aggravated assault, DWI, domestic violence, unlawful possession of a firearm and an array of other felonies. Many of the alien criminals illegally entered the U.S. a multitude of times and kept coming back through the formerly porous southwest border, ICE figures show. Among them is a Mexican Paisas gang member who entered the country illegally a whopping 40 times, a Mexican Sureños gangbanger who sneaked in 29 times and a Mexican Paisas gang member who managed to enter illegally 26 times.

HHS to Provide Illegal Alien Minors with ‘High-Quality’ Residential Services

Judicial Watch has covered our border disaster like no one else, and the crisis isn’t going away. While dangerous illegal alien truck drivers dominate the news, thousands of children who came across the border under the Biden administration’s careless management are still at great risk of abuse. Some have simply disappeared. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the latest:

Illegal immigration may be at an all-time low, but American taxpayers are still getting stuck with the exorbitant cost of caring for the hundreds of thousands of alien minors that entered the country under the Biden administration. The government calls them Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), though the overwhelming majority are not really children but rather young adults in their teens and some have criminal histories.

Under U.S. law the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is responsible for caring for UAC, which are overwhelmingly males over the age of 14, according to government figures. They come from Guatemala (32%), Honduras (20%), Mexico (20%), El Salvador (8%), and “other” (19%). More than half a million entered the country during the Biden administration and Uncle Sam has spent a fortune to provide them with housing, food, an education, medical care, and recreational activities before and after they are released to sponsors throughout the nation.

The expenses will evidently continue for years to come. This month, HHS announced that it is awarding up to $500 million in grants to provide “high-quality” residential services for UAC throughout the United States. The cash will go to group homes that specialize in caring for specific populations such as teen mothers, shelters that provide a child-friendly setting for kids of all ages and transitional foster care for those under the age of 13, including sibling groups, pregnant or parenting teens and children with specific individualized needs. The UAC will receive educational and clinical services as well as medical care, recreation, and individual counseling. Grant recipients must provide private spaces for meetings with attorneys and a separate bedroom for isolation or quarantine for those infected with a communicable disease. “Ideally, there should be at least one isolation-capable bedroom, for every 25 children, equipped with a door that closes while allowing line-of-sight through a small window,” according to the recently published grant announcement, which describes the “distinct illnesses” of this population to include varicella and influenza.

On a positive note, HHS is requiring that grant recipients properly screen and train staff on sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behavior as well as procedures for reporting knowledge or suspicion of sexual abuse. That is because sexual and physical abuse at UAC shelters has been a huge problem for years. In fact, back in 2021 Judicial Watch obtained records from HHS documenting 33 incidents of physical and sexual abuse during a one-month period at one UAC shelter. Last summer the Biden administration sued the government’s largest housing provider for illegal immigrant minors, which has received billions of dollars from American taxpayers, for raping, sexually abusing and harassing the children Uncle Sam paid it to shelter. The Texas-based nonprofit that has raked in enormous amounts of public funds is called Southwest Key and it once operated 29 shelters that provided temporary housing for migrants under the age of 18. The Trump administration dropped the lawsuit against Southwest Key, but also said the government would no longer use its services.

The UAC program has also been rocked by another big scandal, the government’s failure to monitor hundreds of thousands of the underage migrants, many of which were placed with dangerous sponsors where they were victims of abuse and forced labor. Tens of thousands of UAC have simply vanished from the government’s radar, according to a federal audit. Earlier this year the Trump administration announced a plan to locate the young migrants to, among other things, prevent them from being trafficked or exploited. The administration has reportedly ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to sort UAC into three groups—risk, public safety, and border security—with officers told to prioritize flight risk minors, which include those with deportation orders for failing to appear in court hearings. Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components to provide records of communications about the plan, titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” to find UAC who have been released with no follow up by the feds as is required by law.

Until next week,