U.S. Border Patrol arrested five child sex offenders in five different areas over the weekend, officials said.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said USBP officers in the Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley areas arrested five child sex offenders.
Their criminal histories included sexual assault of a 15-year-old and aggravated sexual assault of a child, Owens said.
Two of five sex offenders were arrested after crossing the southern border over the weekend. (USBP)
Their arrests highlight concerns about the roughly 1.8 million “runaways” at the southern border since the beginning of fiscal year 2021. A “fugitive” is a person who is found to have entered the United States illegally and is not apprehended or turned away.
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The arrests of five sex offenders at the border came as the FBI warned Monday of a “wide range” of dangerous threats coming from the U.S. border, including drug trafficking, gangs and smugglers with ties to ISIS.
Asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to comment on these threats during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Wray said there are dangerous individuals coming in from the southern border.
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“From an FBI perspective, we see a wide range of extremely dangerous threats emanating from our borders, including everything from drug trafficking. “We’ve seized enough fentanyl to kill a person, and that’s what’s happening right now on the fentanyl side,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
