Immigration officials in Houston deported 25 child predators in October alone, including repeat sex offenders who were previously deported and later sneaked back home.
The undocumented pedophiles to whom ICE sent the packages include two known gang members and a Mexican national, both of whom have been deported for sex crimes with minors. The department announced that.
“The 25 non-citizens that ERO Houston removed last month entered the country illegally and have continued to prey on the innocence and vulnerability of children ever since,” said Brett Bradford, ICE Enforcement and Removal Office (ERO) Houston Field Director. .
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they were all “convicted of at least one child sex crime while in the country illegally.”
ICE's Houston ERO agency oversees 52 counties in Southwest Texas.
The sick local deportees also included Mexican nationals with “convicted lewd acts against children” and members of the Paisas prison gang, authorities said.
The Mexican wearing the other boots was a member of the Colonia Durango gang and had two prior convictions for theft, as well as aggravated sexual assault of a minor and child molestation. .
In addition to sex crimes, the Salvadoran deportee was also convicted of assaulting a government official.
Another Salvadoran was arrested on charges of “installing an imaging device for the purpose of sexual arousal with the intent to harm a child under 17 years of age.”
The agency sentenced a Mexican national to deportation for the third consecutive year. His rap sheet included cocaine trafficking, two DUI convictions, assault, illegal possession of a weapon, and sexual molestation of a child.
Of the approximately 13,500 illegal immigrants ERO Houston deported in fiscal year 2023, more than half had prior convictions or pending criminal convictions, the agency reported.
Migrant predators often prey on unaccompanied migrant children who are crossing the border in record numbers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will encounter more than 130,000 unaccompanied minors in fiscal year 2023, putting them at extreme risk of “pregnancy, sexual and physical assault, and sexually transmitted diseases.” According to the report, study Published in the American Journal of Public Health.
From October to April 2022, the Department of Homeland Security identified and/or assisted more than 2,600 child exploitation victims and arrested more than 6,100 people for child sex crimes.
