Federal Law Enforcement and Public Safety

The Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on Wednesday arrested five non‑U.S. citizens with prior convictions for serious violent crimes in Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, Arizona and California. According to DHS, the men — from Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala and Vietnam — had been convicted of offenses including manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter in Dallas County and Mecklenburg County, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child in Cook County, aggravated assault, domestic violence and attempted sexual assault in Phoenix, and armed carjacking in Malibu. Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called them "depraved criminals" who "should never have been in the U.S. in the first place" and urged the public to "thank" ICE officers for removing them. The brief release does not spell out how or when each offender re‑entered or remained in the country after their convictions, an omission that matters in the wider political fight over ignored ICE detainers, local sanctuary limits and the Trump administration’s stepped‑up interior‑enforcement priorities.