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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers captured the “worst of the worst” legal unlawful aliens in Los Angeles throughout operations on Friday, together with murderers, intercourse offenders and different violent criminals, the company stated on Sunday.
ICE brokers carried out operations at companies throughout Los Angeles on Friday, which sparked protests and clashes outdoors a number of areas, leading to authorities throwing flash bangs to disperse the gang.
About 45 folks had been arrested throughout a number of areas, together with two Residence Depot shops, a retailer within the trend district and a doughnut store.
Federal immigration officers detained 45 folks throughout Los Angeles companies with convictions for homicide and sexual assault, prompting protests and criticism from DHS officers. (Getty Photographs)
“Why do Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care extra about violent murderers and intercourse offenders than they do about defending their very own residents?” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin requested. “These rioters in Los Angeles are preventing to maintain rapists, murderers, and different violent criminals unfastened on Los Angeles streets. As a substitute of rioting, they need to be thanking ICE officers each single day who get up and make our communities safer.”
Amongst these arrested was 49-year-old Cuong Chanh Phan, an illegal alien from Vietnam with a legal historical past that features a conviction for second-degree homicide.
Phan was convicted of capturing up a highschool commencement get together after a dispute, killing an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old. Seven others had been injured within the incident, in response to DHS.
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ICE arrested a few of the most harmful legal unlawful immigrants whereas conducting operations in Los Angeles on Friday, together with, from left to proper: Cuong Chanh Phan, Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, Armando Ordaz and Francisco Sanchez-Arguello. (Mugshots: Division of Homeland Safety)
ICE additionally arrested Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, a 55-year-old unlawful alien from the Philippines who was convicted of housebreaking, sexual penetration with a overseas object and assault with intent to commit rape.
Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, a 55-year-old Mexican nationwide, was arrested by ICE on Friday. His legal historical past contains discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and car, battery on partner or cohabitant, willful cruelty to little one, driving underneath the affect, assault with a semi-automatic firearm and private use of a firearm.
One other unlawful immigrant who was arrested was 44-year-old Armando Ordaz, of Mexico.
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Regulation enforcement detain a protester on the U.S. Division of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons after federal immigration authorities performed an operation on Friday, June 6, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photograph/Jae C. Hong)
DHS stated Ordaz’s legal historical past contains sexual battery, receiving recognized or stolen property and petty theft.
Francisco Sanchez-Arguello, 38, of Mexico was arrested on Friday and had beforehand been arrested for grand theft larceny and possession of a prohibited weapon, DHS stated.
Authorities arrested 42-year-old Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, an Ecuadorian nationwide who had beforehand been arrested and convicted of conspiracy to own 5 kilograms or extra of cocaine with distribution intent whereas on a vessel in Tampa, Florida.
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ICE performed operations in Los Angeles on Friday, focusing on unlawful immigrants they are saying are the worst of the worst. Of these arrested had been the next: Prime left to proper: Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, and Victor Mendoza-Aguilar. Backside left to proper: Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, and Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales. (Background: Getty Photographs / Mugshots: Division of Homeland Safety)
ICE arrested Victor Mendoza-Aguilar, 32, of Mexico, who had additionally beforehand been convicted of crimes, together with possession of illegal paraphernalia, possession of managed substances, assault with a lethal weapon and obstruction of a public officer.
Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, 51, of Mexico, was arrested Friday and had beforehand been charged and convicted with assault with a lethal weapon with nice bodily damage, DHS stated.
DHS additionally shared that 43-year-old Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, an unlawful alien from Peru, was a kind of arrested Friday and had been beforehand convicted of theft.
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Honduran nationwide Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, 32, was additionally arrested through the operation. He was beforehand convicted of distributing narcotics and home violence.
And at last, DHS stated 26-year-old Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, a Mexican nationwide, was arrested and had beforehand been convicted of conspiring to move an unlawful alien into the U.S.
