An illegal immigrant from Honduras has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Iowa, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
This is the latest case of a crime allegedly being committed illegally in the country.
According to Iowa court documents obtained by Fox, 18-year-old Manuel Dubon Benitez has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse in an incident that occurred in February and allegedly involved the “sexual abuse of a 12-year-old Jane Doe.”
The documents were first reported by the Washington Examiner, which reported that Benitez pleaded guilty on May 14 in Black Hawk County District Court in Iowa.
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Migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border are processed by US Border Patrol near Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego on June 13, 2024. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Fox News Digital that Duvon Benitez is a Honduran national who entered the country illegally through Hidalgo, Texas, in April 2022. ICE said it issued a detention order to the prison, requesting that upon his release, he be turned over to the agency for removal proceedings.
The charges come amid an ongoing crisis at the southern border that has become one of the biggest political issues in the country due to a number of high-profile crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants.
Two illegal Venezuelan immigrants have been charged with murder in the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston last month. The authorities She was “lured” under a bridge in Houston, then tied up and murdered.
The arrest came in the same week that an Ecuadorian national was illegally arrested in the United States. Sexual assault in broad daylight A man with a machete raped a 13-year-old girl in a New York City park, police say.
Police also announced the arrest of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador for the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five who lives in Maryland, part of a string of crimes committed by illegal immigrants across the United States.
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ICE agents conducted enforcement operations in the interior of the United States on June 2, 2022. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
The issue also came up during last week’s presidential debate, with former President Trump accusing President Biden of criminal responsibility.
“They’re killing our people in New York, they’re killing our people in California, they’re killing our people in every state in this union, because there are no borders anymore. Every state is a border now,” Trump said. “Because of his ridiculous, insane, very stupid policies, people are coming in and killing our people at levels we’ve never seen before.”
“We’re calling this immigration crime. I’m calling it Biden immigration crime. They’re killing our people at a level we’ve never seen before.”
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Biden fired back, accusing Trump of sabotaging bipartisan reform efforts for political purposes.
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“This bipartisan agreement was to get more fentanyl machines that can detect drugs, more agents, more people on the border. And when this agreement was reached, he called his Republican colleagues and said, ‘Don’t do this. It will be politically damaging.’ He never argued that this bill is not good. It’s a really good bill.”
