Donald Trump describes migrant crime as a “new category of crime” that is “going to be worse than any other form of crime.” A National Pulse review of the past week finds illegal aliens have indeed been involved in the worst offenses on the books multiple times.
BABY BEATEN TO DEATH.
Twenty-six-year-old Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez has been arrested in Montgomery County, Texas, accused of inflicting a brutal month on a three-month-old baby. The infant was admitted to hospital but later died.
As of the time of publication, the authorities have released little information on Enriquez. His nationality and manner of entry have not been disclosed, and nor has his connection, if any, to the murdered child. He faces separate charges for strangling the baby’s mother, however.
While some media outlets have chosen to describe him as simply a “Montgomery County man,” other reports confirm he is an illegal alien subject to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request.
RELEASED TO TARGET CHILDREN.
Marvin Dionel Perez Lopez, a 20-year-old Guatemalan illegal, has been arrested for kidnapping an 11-year-old girl from the street in Lake Worth, Florida, and sexually assaulting her. Lopez crossed the southern border illegally in January and presented himself to Border Patrol, but was soon released and given a date to appear before an immigration judge — in 2027.
He is accused of snatching his alleged victim near her home and forcing her into a van, where he began to assault her. Her fate may have been even worse had the girl’s mother not noticed what was going on and rushed over to the vehicle, with the migrant fleeing on foot when she began banging on the door.
“Here’s a Guatemalan, who came into the country illegally, was stopped by the border people, released, and made his way to South Florida. And now he commits a crime where he held an 11-year-old girl against her will and sexually assaulted her,” lamented Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
Josefina Cardona-Cardona has been arrested and faces deportation for attempting to hire a hitman to murder two witnesses against her son, Manuel Marcos Cardona, who was imprisoned for stabbing a teenager to death at a five-year-old’s birthday party in February.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Florida says Cardona-Cardona sought to “solicit someone to murder two cooperating witnesses in her son’s case.” However, the supposed assassins were undercover agents.
“Now, she faces two counts of Solicitation to Commit Murder and will be subject to deportation following the completion of her prosecution,” the office says.
She and Manuel Marcos Cardona’s father are said to have participated in a beating of the teenager he stabbed to death. She also attempted to flee the state with her son following the killing.
We have arrested a mother for attempting to solicit someone to murder two cooperating witnesses in her son’s case. In April, we learned that the mother of Manuel Marcos Cardona was planning a heinous act. Our detectives, along with undercover agents, conducted a thorough… pic.twitter.com/eXZXjX9Y9T
— PBSO (@PBCountySheriff) May 7, 2024
SERIAL PEDOPHILE.
An unnamed Bangladeshi, aged 47, has been arrested by ICE in Litchfield, Connecticut. Connecticut State Police charged him with “multiple counts of commercial sex abuse, illegal sexual contact with a minor, fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to child, and illegal sale of tobacco to a person under 21 years of age” in April, with ICE lodging an immigration detainer against him the same month.
“This unlawfully present individual allegedly brought harm to our Connecticut communities by sexually assaulting several children,” said a deportation officer.
‘SIGNIFICANT SAFETY THREAT.’
A 37-year-old Dominican was arrested by deportation officers in Providence, Rhode Island, after police charged him with two counts of first-degree child molestation, one count of second-degree child molestation, and one count of first-degree sexual assault.
The migrant “unlawfully entered the United States on [an] unknown date at an unknown location without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,” making him a so-called “gotaway.”
“This unlawfully present Dominican national represents a significant safety threat, as he currently faces multiple felony child sexual assault charges,” said an ICE spokesman.
The charges were filed against the illegal in November 2023, but he was released and remained among the public until ICE took him into custody in April.
FUGITIVE RAPIST.
Jairo Arnoldo Matamoros Solorzano, a 47-year-old Costa Rican, has been removed to his native country, where he is wanted for sexual assault and rape.
He first fell foul of the authorities in March 2021, when the U.S. Coast Guard caught him with cocaine and marijuana at sea, resulting in his arrest for possession with intent to distribute. He was imprisoned by ICE and discovered to be wanted for sex crimes in Costa Rica after being transferred to ICE custody at the end of his sentence.
SHORT SENTENCE.
A 55-year-old Guatemalan illegal has been arrested by ICE in Providence, Rhode Island. He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted locally of first-degree child sexual molestation/sexual assault in December 2022, but this was reduced to “six years with 19 years suspended.”
The illegal alien served nothing like six years in custody and was released in April, however, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections contacted ICE to facilitate his arrest by deportation officers. He has been in the U.S. since 2008.
‘NO MORE DISTURBING CRIME.’
Deportation officers have arrested another Guatemalan pedophile, aged 25, in Billerica, Massachusetts. He was arrested and arraigned on two counts of rape of a child and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age in 2021 and sentenced to just two years’ imprisonment in 2022.
“There is no more disturbing crime than sexual assault of a child,” said Todd M. Lyons, a field office director for ICE. “Those who are not lawfully present in this country and who are convicted of such disturbing crimes will be arrested and removed from our neighborhoods,” he claimed.
However, the sheer number of migrants convicted of crimes or facing criminal proceedings that ICE faces is overwhelming. Rep. Glenn Grothman, Chairman of the House National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, puts the number of illegal aliens known to ICE with criminal records or pending criminal charges at 617,000 — greater than the entire population of the State of Wyoming.
"We have a new category of crime. It's called migrant crime, and it's going to be worse than any other form of crime," @realDonaldTrump told Laura Ingraham. pic.twitter.com/FrdQLSFKPB
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) February 23, 2024
Read The National Pulse’s previous migrant crime round-up here.
