U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office successfully removed 25 illegal immigrants from the United States in October who were convicted of child sex offenses while residing illegally in the country.
Among the individuals removed in October, two were documented gang members and one had been deported previously for a child sex offense, only to re-enter the U.S. illegally and commit another such crime.
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“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,” said ERO Houston Field Office Director Bret A. Bradford. “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. Our immigration officers live and raise families in this community, and they take their mission to protect the residents of southeast Texas from dangerous criminal noncitizens like this personally. Last month’s results are just another example of their unyielding commitment to apprehend and remove threats to public safety to protect our communities from harm and restore integrity to our nation’s immigration system.”
The removed individuals include:
- A 37-year-old Mexican national, a documented Paisas gang member with prior convictions for lewd acts against a child and illegal re-entry.
- A 50-year-old Mexican national, a three-time deportee with convictions for sexual indecency with a child, drug trafficking, and multiple other offenses.
- A 44-year-old Mexican national, a documented Colonia Durango gang member with convictions for aggravated sexual assault of a minor and sexual indecency with a child.
- A 37-year-old Mexican national, a twice-deported individual with convictions for sexual indecency with a child and sexual assault of a child.
- A 27-year-old Salvadoran national with convictions for sexual assault of a child, resisting arrest, and providing false information to law enforcement.
- A 58-year-old Salvadoran national, a twice-deported individual with convictions for indecent liberties with a child, DWI, assault, and illegal re-entry.
- A 33-year-old Ecuadorian national, a twice-deported individual with convictions for unlawful surveillance of a child and illegal re-entry.
- A 20-year-old Guatemalan national with a conviction for sexual indecency with a child.
- A 30-year-old Guatemalan national, a twice-deported individual with convictions for incest with a minor and illegal re-entry.
- A 52-year-old Salvadoran national, a twice-deported individual with convictions for indecent liberties with a child, DWI, assault, and illegal re-entry.
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ERO Houston Field Office is responsible for immigration enforcement in 52 counties in east Texas. In fiscal year 2023, the office arrested 13,595 non-citizens and removed 13,488, including a significant number with criminal convictions.
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