DHS: ICE Continuing Minnesota Operations Targeting ‘Worst of the Worst’ Offenders

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – In a press release issued by Homeland Security earlier in January, the agency highlighted the ongoing efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota to apprehend the “worst of the worst” despite the “horrific smears” coming from local elected officials.

On January 23rd, Homeland Security announced an update to the ongoing Minnesota-based ICE immigration enforcement effort known as Operation Metro Surge, with the agency highlighting the arrests of eight criminal illegal aliens who were apprehended the day prior to the press release.

According to Homeland Security, the criminal illegal aliens in question hosted a vast array of criminal convictions ranging from sex offenses against children to drug trafficking. The arrestees are as follows:
 

• Jose Eliborio Ocampo-Leon, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was previously convicted of criminal sexual conduct-victim under the age of 16.
• Rudy Alexander Pineda-Aguilar, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, was previously convicted of criminal sexual conduct.
• Gerardo Sanchez-Acuna, a criminal illegal alien, was previously convicted of drug trafficking.
• Jeffrey Alexander Roman-Rabanales, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, was previously convicted of assault, domestic assault, and damage to property.
• Salvador Salazar-Rivera, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was previously convicted of domestic assault and inflicting corporal injury on spouse.
• Ayro Ariel Mimbrera-Fernandez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, had an outstanding federal arrest warrant for the sale of amphetamines and previous convictions of theft and driving while intoxicated.
• Maria Fernanda Velasco-Hurtado, a criminal illegal alien from Ecuador, was previously convicted of theft.
• Lleymi Sanchez-Valenzuela, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was previously convicted of theft.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issued a statement along with the press release, emphasizing the hardships ICE agents are actively enduring via radical activists and politicians while still executing their mission.

“DHS law enforcement continues to remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the streets of Minnesota. Just yesterday they arrested pedophiles, sexual predators, and drug traffickers in Minnesota,” Assistant Secretary McLaughlin stated, adding, “Many of these public safety threats were released from Minnesota jails. We are calling on Governor Walz and Mayor Frey to honor the more than 1,360 detainers of the illegal aliens in Minnesota jails. Despite horrific smears and violent assaults against them, our officers continue to put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”