The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has unleashed a crime wave throughout the interior states that shows no signs of abating, with new reports of murder, robbery, and rape at the hands of illegal aliens surfacing almost daily.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Guatemalan illegal alien recently convicted of sexually assaulting a child after he was released by a Massachusetts court.
ICE said the Guatemalan national illegally entered the U.S. in April 2011 at an unknown location, without being inspected or admitted by immigration officials.
The 34-year-old Guatemalan was convicted in January of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14, and a separate offense of assault in battery, in Gloucester District Court, ICE said.
The unlawfully present Guatemalan was ordered by the court to register as a sex offender with the Massachusetts sex offender registry, and was released back into the community — despite ICE lodging an immigration detainer against him.
Immigration detainers are lodged by ICE against individuals who have been arrested on criminal charges in the U.S., and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable non-citizens.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested the 34-year-old Guatemalan sex offender without incident on Feb. 21 in Gloucester.
“This individual represented a dire threat to the residents of Massachusetts,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons.
Elsewhere in the country, crimes committed by foreign nationals present in the U.S. illegally have stoked national outrage over a federal immigration policy that appears to prioritize transnational migration over the well-being of American taxpayers.
On Feb. 24, Georgia media reported on the death of a University of Athen’s nursing student, Laken Hope Riley, who was allegedly murdered by 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra.
A judge denied Ibarra bail, in part because he is an illegal alien from Venezuela. According to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, Ibarra entered the U.S. illegally near El Paso, Texas on Sept. 8, 2022 and was released into the interior of the country by immigration authorities.
Six days later, Ibarra was arrested by New York Police for illegally operating a motor vehicle and endangering a minor child. The New York Police Dept. released him before Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could place a detainer on him, though it’s doubtful whether that detainer would have been honored.
Separately, Ibarra’s brother — also an illegal alien from Venezuela — faces charges for presenting a fraudulent green card to law enforcement.
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On the same day that Riley was found dead, 32-year-old Renzo Mendoza Montes was arrested in Virginia for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
According to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Montes had been detained by Border Patrol in Texas when he entered the country in September 2023, before being released into the country.
On Monday, 25-year-old Santo Felix Cruz-Ramos, a man from Honduras whose immigration status was unclear, was arrested in Charlotte County, Fla. on suspicion of sexual battery.
In Kenner, La., on Tuesday, local media reported the alleged knife-point raping of a 14-year-old-girl by Angel Matias Castellanos-Orellana, a Honduran man whom police said was present in the U.S. illegally.
Five days after the alleged rape, Castellanos-Orellana was apprehended after he reportedly stabbed a local man several times in the face and back at 3:15 a.m. Sunday morning.
Also this week, police arrested a fifth suspect in the brutal murder of 2-year-old Jeremy Poou Caceres. According to police in Maryland, Nilson Trejo-Granados, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was ordered removed from the country in Nov. 2022 by an immigration judge.
ICE records Granados was arrested again in March 2023 and charged with theft. Despite an additional ICE detainer placed on Granados, the Montgomery County Detention Center (MCDC) released him into the community that same month.
Granados was arrested again in Sept. 2023 and charged with theft, again, but MCDC again ignored an ICE detainer lodged against him.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources have said Granados is a known member of the infamous Salvadoran MS-13 gang who first entered the U.S. in 2014.
According to the U.S. Border Protection Chief, who once served as the commander of the Houlton CBP office, USBP agents on the southern border have this week apprehended 11 individuals with violent criminal histories, including child molestation, aggravated assault, rape, murder, and manufacture/trafficking of firearms.
At the same time violent criminals are entering the country illegally in droves, vast quantities of lethal narcotics are being trafficked across the border, with only some of them being intercepted by law enforcement.
The illegal alien crime wave has been spurred on in part by President Joe Biden’s intentional decision to rescind the border policies of his predecessor, former Republican President Joe Biden.
In February 2021, just days after taking office, President Biden issued a series of Executive Orders that effectively revoked Trump’s border protection policies.
The consequences of Biden’s open border policies are evident in the number of illegal aliens encountered and released at the southern border in comparison to previous administrations.
Although the vast majority of criminal illegal aliens have entered the U.S.-Mexico border, attempted illegal crossings have also surged at the northern border, including in Maine.
This week, three Chinese foreign nationals were arrested attempting to enter Maine without authorization from Canada, along with a fourth Chinese illegal alien who was an apparent getaway driver.
In Dec., CBP agents caught 20 Romanian illegal aliens attempting to storm the U.S.-Canada border in Houlton, including two with known ties to transnational criminal organizations.
According to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R), 18 of those Romanian foreign nationals were released into the community despite having no legal authorization.
While Republican leaders and conservative media commentators have branded the immigration crisis an invasion and a national security threat, the Biden administration and national Democrats, with few exceptions, have been unwilling to acknowledge the severity of the crisis.
Biden’s U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the lack of effective enforcement at the southern border, one of many factors that led U.S. House Republicans to vote for his impeachment this month.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), who is facing a tough reelection in a Trump-friendly district where Biden is wildly unpopular, has recently made national media appearances in an attempt to usher in a border security bill that is tied to taxpayer-funded payments to foreign countries.
Though Rep. Golden has backed limited increases in border security measures, he has maintained his position that border security must come with billions in foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Golden has also maintained that the border crisis can only be addressed through additional legislation, despite Biden’s clear authority under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to crack down on illegal entries at the border.
Golden’s claim that only further congressional action can stem the crisis is part of broader Democratic Party messaging in advance of the November elections to shift blame for the border catastrophe from the Biden White House and Democratic officials.
As illegal immigration has increasingly become a losing issue for Democrats, Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine), has unveiled plans this year to establish an Office of New Americans (ONA).
Economic development plans released by the Mills Administration have laid out the goal of enticing tens of thousands of unskilled laborers to Maine.
The proposed ONA would help the mostly jobless, homeless migrants who arrive in Maine, often later claiming asylum status, access taxpayer-funded welfare and housing benefits.
The plan defines New American as “Any individual born outside of the United States who is currently residing in the U.S.,” but makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.
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So why are political hacks such as Rep. Dhlac, Gov. Mills and other Dems pushing for an “Office of New Mainers”? We all know why, more cultural enrichment and future votes.
Now all of a sudden…it is here in Maine.
How soon until we as a border state ,will become another Texas ..