President Donald Trump's vow to put an end to illegal immigration has led to the arrests and deportations of thousands of people with violent criminal backgrounds, including many who have repeatedly returned to the government of Joe Biden but illegally returned.
New data from the Department of Homeland Security data showed that 37,660 people were deported during the first month in Trump's office, slightly below the average of 57,000 that were deleted and returned in the last full year at the Biden office.
One of the most striking deportations so far took place on 13 February when Ice Agents Humberto Romero removed, a 45-year-old Paisas-Bendel member who has crossed the border illegally 10 times.
Romero, who is said to have killed Geovany Prado, 22, on December 2, 2007 in Celaya, Guanajuato, was handed over to the Mexican authorities.
During his time in the United States, the murder suspect was convicted four times for driving while they were intoxicated and had convictions for Larceny, illegal access and illegal return while he is illegal in the US, according to the immigration agency.
Ice enforcement and removal activities [ERO] Bret Bradford, director of Houston Field, said in a statement that he had not encountered a more gross perpetrator in more than three decades or a better example of why immigration enforcement is so crucial for maintaining public safety. “
Nestor Flores, 58, who is being sought in Veracruz, Mexico for alleged rape of a child, made three border crossings attempts for a period of six days in February 2022 and was voluntarily returned to Mexico.
He then returned on an unknown date and he was not detected until August 23, 2024, when Houston Eo's office placed him under arrest after he received a tip that he lived in the Houston region and was confronted with a rape in Mexico.
Humberto Romero was deported 10 times before he was arrested in August 2024 by Ice Agents in Houston. The 45-year-old was deported and transferred to the Mexican authorities on 12 February. He is accused of killing 22-year-old Geovany Prado on December 2, 2007 in Celaya, Guanajuato
David Gonzalez-Martinez was deported three times between 2001 and 2015. He was arrested by Ice and the Harris County Sheriff's Office on February 5. The 52-year-old had four convictions, including voluntary manslaughter
Nestor Rochaguayo, from Mexico, was deported on December 24, a week after he had been guilty of a drug application in a court in Utah. As part of his agreement, he was placed in custody and removed from the US, but he went back to the country and reportedly killed his ex-girlfriend, whose body was found on January 4 in Tooele County near Salt Lake City
ICE said an immigration judge granted him a voluntary departure on December 19, 2024.
Only three days after Trump's return to the office, ice officers met their Mexican counterparts at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas and Romero placed in their detention.
Another repeated perpetrator, David González-Martínez, was cut in Houston on 5 February.
The 52-year-old Mexican national was deported three times September 2001, July 2008 and April 2015 and had four convictions, including for voluntary manslaughter.
Immediately after his arrest, ICE placed an immigration retention with the prison of Harris County-de Petition that the prison informs Ice if González-Martínez is about to be released. Ice officers can then place him in their detention.
Bradford called it an 'indispensable tool' for the desk.
'They enable our officers to take direct custody of criminal strangers in the safe boundaries of the prison, which improves the safety of all involved, and helps to eliminate unnecessary expenses that would otherwise be needed to look for them in the community. '
Despite removals from the United States, immigrants without papers with a criminal background have found ways to return to the country
Nestor Flores, 58, who is being sought in Veracruz, Mexico for alleged rape of a child, made three border crossings attempts for a period of six days in February 2022 and was voluntarily returned to Mexico. He later returned to the United States and was arrested in Houston in August 2024 and was deported in January
Talian Bewward (Left) was found dead in Tooele County, near Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 4 after she was reportedly killed by her ex-boyfriend Nestor Rochaguayo (right), who returned to the United States After he was deported after he was deported to Mexico on December 24, 2024
In the meantime, the Mexican National Nestor Rochaguayo reportedly killed his ex-girlfriend, Talian Benward, 31, in Utah a week after he was deported.
Rochaguayo argued guilty of a drug application on December 16, 2024, and as part of the deal with officers of justice was released to Ice, who deported him on December 24.
He finally went back to the United States on an unknown date and later contacted Benward to let her know that he was in the state.
She met him on January 1 in the local store in West -Jordan and was found dead on January 4 in a remote area of TOOLE County.
Rochaaguayo got into a bus for Mexico the next day and was arrested by American Marshals.
