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Border Patrol arrests gang members, migrant with child sex crime conviction in groups crossing into US
2022-01-07
[FoxNews] So far there have been 110 gang members apprehended in FY 2022.

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector have nabbed two gang members and a migrant with a child sex crime conviction coming across the border as part of separate groups of migrants entering the U.S.

On Wednesday, agents arrested a Salvadoran national and registered sex offender who had been arrested in Texas in 2018 for indecency with a child by sexual conduct. He was convicted but not deported, and instead was sentenced to five years probation.

Just a year later he was arrested in Houston for stalking and child abuse, and this time was deported. He also has an outstanding warrant. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release says that the group he was traveling in included a 7-year-old girl traveling with her mother.

On Tuesday, agents in La Joya encountered a group of six migrants trying to avoid them. During processing, they discovered one woman was an 18th Street gang member with multiple removals – including as recently as August.

Then on Wednesday, a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member was arrested in a group of three in McAllen. He also has been deported before.

Agents have nabbed a number of sex offenders in the holiday period. Officials announced this week they arrested an Ecuadorian national with previous convictions for aggravated sodomy, child molestation and rape from Atlanta, Georgia. He had served 12 years for the convictions.

Tucson Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent John Modlin announced this week that agents had arrested a Mexican citizen who is also a registered sex offender previously convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Illinois.

In Fiscal Year 2021, there were 488 convicted sexual offenders among migrants coming across the border, up dramatically from 156 in FY2020 and 58 in FY2019. So far in FY2022, which began in October, there have been at least 64 sex-related convicted criminals among migrants.

Meanwhile, there have been 110 gang members apprehended at the border so far in FY2022. In FY2021, there were 348 gang members apprehended, down slightly from the 363 encountered in FY2020 and significantly from 976 in FY2019 – which has led some Republicans to fear they are sneaking past an overwhelmed Border Patrol.
Related:
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Rio Grande Valley Sector: 2021-12-02 East African, Middle Eastern Migrants Apprehended in Texas near Border
Rio Grande Valley Sector: 2021-11-29 Large Migrant Group Rushes Border in West Texas
Related:
Tucson Sector: 2021-08-10 Nearly 300 migrant children traveling alone are arrested after crossing into Arizona as flood of unaccompanied kids continues to swamp the border
Tucson Sector: 2021-05-21 Border Patrol nabs 32 Mexican nationals dressed in camo in Arizona
Tucson Sector: 2021-05-15 Tucson Border Patrol agents prepare for busy summer as record numbers of migrant encounters continue upward
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Posted by: Tom   2022-01-07 14:36  

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