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A single Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Texas recently deported more than two dozen child sex predators who were illegally in the U.S.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston removed 25 “unlawfully present noncitizens” in the month of October alone.
In a press release issued on Monday, ICE explained that at least two of the deportees were gang members, and another had been deported after sexually assaulting a child before reentering the U.S. and repeating his heinous behavior.
Many of the foreign offenders possessed extensive criminal histories and had been previously removed from the country on at least one occasion.
ICE listed some of the deportees, including the following:
- Oct. 2: A 27-year-old Salvadoran national with convictions for sexual assault of a child, resisting arrest, and providing false information to law enforcement
- Oct. 2: A 58-year-old twice-deported Salvadoran national with convictions for aggravated sexual assault of a child and illegal reentry
- Oct. 16: A 37-year-old twice-deported Mexican national who is a documented Paisas gang member with prior criminal convictions for committing lewd acts against a child under the age of 14 and illegal re-entry
- Oct. 17: A 50-year-old three-time deported Mexican national with convictions for sexual indecency with a child, cocaine trafficking, DWI (twice), assault, unlawful carrying a weapon, and illegal re-entry
- Oct. 18: A 44-year-old Mexican national who is a documented Colonia Durango gang member with prior criminal convictions for aggravated sexual assault of a minor, sexual indecency with a child, and larceny (twice)
- Oct. 22: A 33-year-old twice-deported Ecuadorian national with convictions for unlawful surveillance / installing an imaging device for sexual arousal in a manner to injure a child under the age of 17, and illegal reentry
- Oct. 23: A 52-year-old twice-deported Salvadoran national with convictions for indecent liberties with a child, DWI, assault of a government employee, assault, and illegal reentry
- Oct. 28: A 30-year-old twice-deported Guatemalan national with convictions for incest with a minor under the age of 13 and illegal reentry
“The 25 noncitizens that ERO Houston removed last month illegally entered the country and then proceeded to prey on the innocence and vulnerability of our children,” ERO Houston Field Office Director Bret A. Bradford said in a statement.
“Unconscionably, one of the noncitizens that we removed was convicted of a child sex offense and deported and then he illegally reentered the country and committed a second child sex offense.”