542 Percent Increase in Convicted Sex Offenders Arrested at Border

[IceWizard]

542 Percent Increase in Convicted Sex Offenders
Arrested at Border




Border Patrol agents apprehend an illegal immigrant in Penitas, Texas,
on March 11. 2021.
(Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)


BY CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON
June 27, 2021
Updated: June 28, 2021



DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related
criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior
convictions for crimes involving a minor.

In the same period in fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 55 criminal sex offenders, and
58 total in all of fiscal 2019.

The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem
with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population
of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol.

Border Patrol has detected more than 250,000 illegal aliens who have evaded capture
so far this year, according to the newly-appointed Acting Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz
on June 24. It’s impossible to estimate how many have evaded Border Patrol without detection.

“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t read a paper or a report from my agents that
talks about criminal aliens, sexual offenders that they’ve apprehended out there,” Ortiz said
during an event in Del Rio, Texas.

“Those folks aren’t getting released in these communities. Guess what happens to them?
They go to jail. When they get out of jail, they go back to their country of origin.”

According to reports by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), many of the criminals being
caught have already been deported, sometimes on multiple occasions.

On June 24, agents in Rio Grande City, Texas, arrested convicted sex offender, Benito Gomez-Lopez,
from Mexico. Gomez-Lopez was arrested in May 2020 by the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department
in North Dakota for possession of certain prohibited materials and promoting a sexual performance
by a minor, according to CBP.

He pleaded guilty to both counts and was sentenced to three years confinement, but was
repatriated to Mexico in July 2020.

On June 14, a Peruvian child rapist was arrested by Border Patrol after he entered the United States
illegally near Roma, Texas, according to CBP. Pedro Asuncion ORE-Quispe, 43, had been deported
in 2020 after serving over five years for felony rape of a child in Idaho.

On June 20, Mexican national Isidro Efrain Gallardo-Rangel was apprehended as part of a group
of 24 illegal aliens near Laredo. Gallardo-Rangel is a registered sex offender with an extensive
criminal history and a conviction for indecency with a child in 2018 in Dallas, Texas, according to CBP.




U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz at a community meeting in
Del Rio, Texas, on June 24, 2021.
(Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)



Del Rio Sector

Once a relatively quiet region for illegal border crossings, the Del Rio Sector in Texas is
now the second busiest, after the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas.

“We’ve seen a tremendous increase. So far this year, this fiscal year, today, we’ve caught
144,000 people in the Del Rio sector,” said sector chief Austin Skero on June 24.

“We’ve gone through this before—we’ve seen these increases, these surges, for the last
30 or 40 years. It’s never been this bad. I’ll tell you that straight up, I’ve never seen it this bad.”

Skero said the sector has seen a 1,400 percent increase in the number of sex offenders
arrested by Border Patrol agents.




A photo from a game camera that caught illegal aliens walking through private
ranch land in Jim Hogg County, Texas, on March 25, 2021.
(Courtesy of Susan Kibbe)



A Del Rio resident said that prior to January he had seen two illegal aliens pass
through his backyard.

Now, he said, it’s hundreds a day.

“I have four daughters—does it concern me when you say there’s a 1,400 percent increase
in sex offenders? Yes, it concerns me,” the resident said during a border update on June 24.

“I’m concerned about the single men who are running through my backyard, sneaking.
And I’m about a 50 percent  success rate on whether or not I get an agent to come out
to my place when I call. And when they do, it’s awesome, they bring helicopters,
they bring support.

“Otherwise, I’m sitting there unarmed and there’s a guy soaking wet in my backyard screaming
at me in Spanish. I don’t know what to do with this guy.”

The resident asked Border Patrol if they could provide some type of training to citizens
to prepare them for such encounters.

Skero suggested for residents to not engage with illegal aliens who are on their property
and to call Border Patrol.

“We’re going to come just as soon as we can. Sometimes it will be immediate, sometimes
it might take us an hour.”

But, he said, if an illegal immigrant is endangering a resident’s family, or is being assaultive, call 911.




Del Rio Border Patrol Sector Chief Austin Skero at a press conference in
Del Rio, Texas, on June 24, 2021.
(Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)



State Response

At the behest of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) started
surging extra law enforcement resources to the border beginning in March.

In the three months from March 4 through June 3, DPS has arrested 1,489 criminals.

In addition, State Troopers have been involved in 340 vehicle pursuits along the border
and have dealt with 630 vehicle bailouts. A bailout occurs when a vehicle being pulled by
law enforcement stops and the illegal immigrant occupants scatter and flee to avoid capture.

Abbott issued a state of disaster declaration on June 10, highlighting 34 border counties
that are struggling with cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

“We’re going to start making arrests, sending a message to anyone thinking about coming here:
You’re not getting a free pass. You’re getting a straight pass to a jail cell,” Abbott said.

Last week a prison unit in Dilley, Texas, was being emptied in preparation for illegal alien criminals.

Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also issued a call for help to other governors on June 10.

“With your help, we can apprehend more of these perpetrators of state and federal crimes,
before they can cause problems in your state,” Abbott and Ducey, both Republicans,
wrote in a letter.

So far, several Republican governors have pledged support by way of sending law
enforcement personnel or National Guard troops.

[Charon]

God help those children tossed over. They are victims waiting to happen.

I just remember on the first debate i believe it was, that Former President Trump kept asking Biden: Who built the walls Joe? Who built the walls Joe?

Our children are being turned into wee communists in the school systems nowadays. Give em everything for free and then u have control over them. So far, it is working damned well.

They tried that in my son's grammar school. "They" wanted to bring in a religious movement which claimed we are smarter than we were. We do not need God in schools anymore. It also stated that children would have to fill out questionnaires daily about their home life. What their parents talk about. How they speak. If your brother stuck his tongue at you, tell the children and SOCIAL SERVICES, CPS, would take over the case. Parents lost rights to give lunches to kids. To make decisions for their child.

So, being whom I am, I had to fight that BS. We don't say yes to CPS coming into our homes cuz some arse in the public school system figured they could gain access to all student/parent situations. And would get Child protective involved STAT. I wrote up letters and let the other parents understand what they were agreeing to.

Yeah, it did not pass. Turns out it was my deceased husband's boss' wife whom brought it to this school. OOPS. But I had to do it.

We gotta get our country back to some semblance of actual democracy. Just without these democrats. Without fear. Without unfair mandates.

Or we all start home schooling.

I get tempted to get a few to cut California outta the US. It wants to be so free? Have at it. But leave the USA out of it.

These idiots have no idea how serious Texans are. How patriotic Texans are. And how good they handle this border nonsense.

Good luck Texas. Get er done.

[coffeedude22]

What a truly depressing situation. And it's only going to get worse.