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Not stopping:
Multiple sex offenders and gang members
arrested by U.S. Border Patrol last week


February 2, 2022



EDINBURG, TX
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested three migrants with prior
convictions for sexual crimes and eight gang members, according to a release issued by
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday.







CBP reported that Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol (RGV) agents apprehended a group of 18
migrants in the brush attempting to circumvent the checkpoint near Sarita, Texas.

One of the migrants was found to be a Salvadoran national with a prior arrest for aggravated
sexual assault of a child less than 13-year-old in 2017.

The arrest was made by Lindenwold Police Department (LPD) in New Jersey. The Salvadoran
national was convicted of the crime and sentenced to five years confinement.

Shocking as the convict’s capture re-entering the country is, it was not an isolated incident.
On Wednesday morning, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents conducted record checks on a
Salvadoran national, who was apprehended with a group of 10 migrants in Hidalgo, Texas.

The records check determined this Salvadoran was a convicted sex offender, convicted in
2018 of lewd acts with a child under 14 years old in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to
three years in prison.







Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Brownsville Border Patrol (BRP) agents arrested a male national
from Uruguay illegally entering the United States.

Through records checks, BRP agents identified the subject as a sex offender with a prior arrest in
2007 for Loitering for Sex Under 18-years-old, by the Gwinnett County Police Department in Georgia.

He was subsequently sentenced to 12 months’ probation.

Sex offenders are only one of a myriad of criminals being apprehended re-entering the United States
across the porous southern border. CBP Press Officer Thomas Gresback wrote:

“Also, this week, RGV agents arrested eight foreign nationals that have been identified as
members of trans-national criminal organizations.

“The migrants are nationals from Romania, El Salvador, and Honduras. One of the Romanian
nationals has an active full extradition warrant out of Fort Collins, Colorado for Larceny.”







These migrants are some of the latest arrests of migrants with criminal convictions arrested by
CBP entering the country this year. This builds on the 10, 763 arrests of migrant with criminal
convictions in 2021, 2438 in 2020, and 4,269 on 2019.

Of the arrests in 2021, 488 of those were sex offenders, up from 156 in 2020 and 57 in 2019,
according to records examined by Fox News.

Border crossings have surged at the southern border since President Joe Biden took office in
January 2021. Lax immigration enforcement policies and public calls for leniency for border
crossers have fueled the border rush.

The Biden administration is also ferrying illegal immigrants to the interior United States on private
airlines late night, clandestine flights that have riled Republican governors like Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis, who threatened to block state funds from companies who assist with the transport
of such migrants inside his country.