The number of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States, including those with criminal backgrounds, has skyrocketed since President Joe Biden took office. Of those arrests, 177 have been convicted sex offenders. The second, who hails from El Salvador, was sentenced to a year in prison in 2012 after a statutory rape conviction.ĬBP has arrested in the 2022 fiscal year nearly 6,000 migrants who have been convicted of one or more crimes in the United States or abroad, according to agency data. The first man, a Mexican national, was convicted of sexual assault in 1998 and sentenced to 17 months in prison. The two men, who had been deported, attempted to cross into the country as part of larger groups of migrants in the Del Rio, Texas, sector of the southern border on the mornings of May 24 and May 25.
Border Patrol agents arrested two illegal aliens in less than 24 hours who have been convicted of sex crimes in the United States, Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday.