The Illegal Alien Crime Spree in Just One Month

One of Joe Biden’s first acts in office was opening the border to appease his radical activist allies. He told border agents to go soft on illegal aliens—and the result is an unprecedented crime wave. That’s Biden’s gift to America.

Thanks to Biden Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies allowing criminal illegal aliens to roam free with no consequences, Americans are paying the price in every corner of the nation.

Biden wants to fire Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents if they try to deport illegal aliens who have been arrested for a DUI.

When the boss speaks, employees listen: Since Biden took office in 2021, illegal alien DUI arrests have dropped by 71 percent and criminal deportations have fallen by 67 percent. That’s not a drop in criminal activity; that’s this administration’s lawlessness in action.

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Return to Sender

While the far-left media doesn’t report the harmful impacts of illegals crossing the border, we have found some eye-opening examples of the deadly impacts of Biden’s open border policies. Just a single month, February 2024, was filled with violent crime by illegal aliens—including atrocities against children.

Restoration News has documented numerous such crimes here:

  • Feb. 1, Franklin NY—Rep. Elise Stefanik (R–NY) announced that an illegal from the Dominican Republic had been arrested on murder charges.
  • Feb 1, Huachuca AZ —Milton Javier Ahumada-Torres, an illegal migrant, was arrested after a high-speed police chase for possession of a stolen vehicle, endangerment, and resisting arrest. He had a loaded handgun in the car and was previously arrested for illegal entry into the U.S.
  • Feb. 1, Zavala County TX—A Mexican illegal alien was pulled over for a traffic stop and tried to flee from the police. He was apprehended and turned over to Border Patrol agents.
  • Feb. 2, Baltimore MD—ICE announced the arrest of an MS-13 gang member illegally in the country from El Salvador. Law enforcement called him a “significant threat to the residents” of Maryland. He had been arrested multiple times in the past and released.
  • Feb. 5, New York City—A 15-year-old violent Venezuelan, Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, was arrested after a manhunt in New York City. He robbed a store, fired a gun at a security guard—the bullets missed the security guard but hit a Brazilian tourist—he then fired at a police officer twice. He was apprehended and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and is also a suspect in a January armed robbery in the Bronx.
  • Feb. 5, New York City—After a sting operation in which 5 “migrant” arrests were made for a variety of crimes involving 62 victims, New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban announced that a “wave of migrant crime has washed over our city.” He also admitted they don’t check immigration status.
  • Feb. 6, Boston MA—Federal officials in Boston arrested an illegal Guatemalan on charges of child sexual assault. He had previously been released by a Rhode Island prison despite an ICE detainer.
  • Feb. 6, Columbia SC—An illegal teen from Honduras was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting.
  • Feb. 6, Loredo TX—Border Patrol agents arrested a child predator from Mexico.
  • Feb. 12, Ontario OR—An illegal alien couple in Oregon were sentenced to federal prison for being ring leaders in a large drug trafficking organization.
  • Feb. 13, Denver CO—An illegal from Mexico was arrested by ICE. Edgar Pando-Carpio had previously been convicted of a felony for soliciting child prostitution.
  • Feb. 17 weekend, El Paso TX—Border Patrol agents arrested 8 illegals from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico who are violent cartel and gang members.
  • Feb. 20, Escambia County FL—An illegal man wanted by ICE was arrested after he killed a 21-year-old man in a vehicle accident.
  • Feb. 21, Gloucester MA —ICE agents arrested a 34-year-old Guatemalan who had been convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14 but was released back into the community despite an ICE detainer against him.
  • Feb. 21, Phoenix AZ—3 illegal aliens from Chile were arrested for being a part of a South American criminal gang operating a vast home theft ring.
  • Feb. 21, Ysleta TX—Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national who is a member of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel.
  • Feb. 22, El Paso TX—Border Patrol agents arrested a Columbian national who has a criminal history that includes firearms trafficking and homicide.
  • Feb. 22, Athens GA—Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal from Venezuela who had previously been arrested in New York.
  • Feb. 22, Campbell County VA—An illegal, 32-year-old Renzo Montes from Venezuela, was arrested for sexual assault against a 14-year-old. He had been detained and released by Border Patrol in September 2023.
  • Feb. 25, Englewood FL— An illegal alien was arrested for raping a woman in her hotel room.
  • Feb. 25, Kenner LA—A 19-year-old Honduran man was arrested after he terrorized a Louisiana community for 25 days. He was charged with first-degree rape (of a 14-year-old girl), aggravated assault, and armed robbery among other crimes.
  • Feb. 25 week, TX—Texas Border Patrol arrested 11 illegals with violent criminal histories of rape, murder, trafficking of firearms, and child molestation.
  • Feb. 26, Towns County GA—A Mexican was arrested for felony drug possession with the intent to distribute. He had previously been deported.
  • Feb. 26, Langley Park MD—A 25-year-old Salvadoran national, Nilson Trejo-Granados, who had been arrested multiple times in 2023 by the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland, was arrested again, this time for the murder of a 2-year-old child. In 2022, Trejo-Granados had been ordered to be removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge in Newark, New Jersey.
  • Feb. 26, Provo UT—A Guatemalan, Jonathan Estuardo Ruano Garcia (age 26), was arrested for raping an 11-year-old little girl. Garcia also had a fake Social Security card.
  • Feb. 27, El Paso TX—Border Patrol arrested 3 illegal aliens from Ecuador and the Dominican Republic who had long rap sheets and ties to gangs.

Bragging About the Damage

Despite this train of abuses, Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has boasted “we have rescinded so many Trump immigration policies, it would take so much time to list them.”

Republican Rep. Bob Good, who represents Campbell County, Virginia, believes that Biden has “intentionally caused the border crisis by reversing President Trump’s policies.”

Biden Democrats want you to believe crime is down and that the solution is to make a quick path to citizenship for these criminal illegal aliens. At least that is what the former “border czar” Kamala Harris believed was the answer.

Remember when President Biden said, “I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this,” referring to Vice-President Harris solving the border issue? Her big solution to the growing problem was to spend money to create jobs in Central America instead of here at home. Rather than spending money on Americans jobs, she passed it along to countries like Venezuela who were releasing their criminals from prison and sending them to the United States.

Americans know that Joe Biden and his Democrat allies are responsible for the February crime spree by illegals. This carnage is only getting worse, and Democrats must be held accountable at the ballot box in November.

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Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News and author of "Behind the Wall of Government Schools." She served 8 years as an elected school board member with a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse and mother to her reporting.

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