ICE Has Arrested 10,000 Migrant Gang Members So Far in Trump’s Second Term, DHS Reveals

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The milestone, reached just a year and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, includes arrests tied to murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion, according to DHS.

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The agency’s 10,000th arrest came when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collared Javier Hernandez Rosas, an illegal migrant from Mexico and an alleged member of the terrorist organization MS-13, whose rap sheet included a cocaine possession conviction and arrests for abduction and weapon possession.

Among the other most dangerous gang members swept up under the Trump administration were seven additional MS-13 affiliates – including Salvadorian migrant Josue Saul Garcia-Lopez, who was nabbed in Harrisonburg, Virginia, last month.

Garcia-Lopez was wanted internationally for his role in extortion and robbery schemes in El Salvador, and had been arrested previously for unlawful firearms possession and disorderly conduct, the department said.

Two other MS-13 gang members from El Salvador – Danny Granados-Garcia and David Antonio Aviles Perez — were taken into custody during separate ICE operations in Connecticut in April and California in March, respectively.

Both men were wanted for murder in their home country. Granados-Garcia was accused of killing a pastor. Perez, meanwhile, had prior arrests in California for assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance and petty theft.

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The worst of the worst MS-13 members arrested by ICE in recent months also include Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, who was wanted in his home country of Honduras for a quadruple homicide; Ismael Enrique Mendoza Flores, who committed aggravated homicide in El Salvador and had a prior arrest for unauthorized use of a vehicle in the US; and Nelson Vladimir Amaya-Benitez, whose criminal history included armed robbery, theft and malicious second-degree burning, according to DHS.

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