In some huge news out of the city of Houston, Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested well over 200 illegal aliens who have been charged or convicted of committing sex offenses involving minors. The move comes amidst ICE’s big push to sweep across major metropolitan areas and arrest large numbers of illegal aliens while encouraging even more to flee and self-deport.
For reference, ICE’s big announcement on the arrests of particularly heinous illegal aliens in the Houston area comes in the context of the Trump Administration’s larger, and increasingly successful, push against illegal immigration generally. For example, the former sanctuary city of Louisville, Kentucky, changed course and is now working with ICE after being threatened into doing so by the administration and DOJ.
In any case, ICE announced its recent win in a press release put out on Monday, July 28. Beginning the press release, it highlighted how it has succeeded dramatically in the first few months under Trump compared to Biden, saying, “214 illegal aliens for immigration offenses in the Houston area in the past six months who have been charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor. The 214 arrests were more than the Houston field office arrested during the entire 2024 fiscal year, when officers there arrested 211 illegal aliens charged or convicted of child sex offenses.”
Continuing, it explained part of the reason for its newfound success, noting that the Trump Administration established new teams that take this particular, awful crime on directly. It said, “The surge in arrests of illegal aliens charged with or convicted of child sex offenses is a direct result of a whole-of-government approach implemented under the current administration that led to the establishment of multiagency targeting teams in each area of responsibility.”
And, explaining what that has led to in Houston, the press release stated, “These teams conduct daily enhanced immigration enforcement operations targeting the ‘worst of the worst’ criminal aliens for arrest and removal. In Southeast Texas, those efforts have resulted in an increase in arrests of all dangerous criminal aliens, leading to safer communities, stronger national security and enhanced border security.”
Further, the press release gave some examples of the awful illegal aliens who were caught in this sweep and deported. One such individual was “Jesus Gutierrez Mireles, a 67-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico, who was arrested March 28 and has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and driving while intoxicated. ICE removed Gutierrez Mireles to Mexico April 4.”
Another named illegal caught in this operation is “Manuel Antonio Castro-Juarez, a 37-year-old, twice-deported criminal alien from El Salvador who was arrested July 18 and has been convicted of sexual assault of a minor and twice for illegal reentry. Castro-Juarez remains in ICE custody pending his third removal to El Salvador.”
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More recently, ICE caught and deported Sergio Rolando Galvan Guerrero, a 45-year-old, three-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested July 12 and has been convicted of DWI and aggravated sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Galvan Guerrero to Mexico July 14.”
Paul McBride, the acting Field Office Director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division in Houston, was quoted in the press release as saying, “Bringing together the resources and expertise of the entire federal law enforcement community to confront the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that we saw over the past four years has resulted in the arrest and removal of historic numbers of violent criminal aliens, transnational gang members and child sex offenders.”
McBride added, “While we still have a long way to go to truly get this crisis under control, the strides we have made in just six months to make our local communities safer are substantial, and our officers continue to work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the worst criminal aliens out of Southeast Texas to return our communities to places we can all enjoy.”
Watch local media’s report on the ICE victory here:
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