It is a tale as old as time: a criminal identified for arrest and prison does everything possible to avoid contact with authorities. In recent years, many wanted criminals have fled their home country, destination: United States. On former President Joe Biden’s watch, fugitives from justice illegally entered and found sanctuary in the U.S., where many continued their criminal ways.
They are unworthy of our hospitality, yet leftist activists are in court trying to protect literal murderers and rapists from being deported.
When the Department of Homeland Security last week deported 238 illegal aliens and alleged members of Tren De Aragua, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador, the anti-American ACLU and the far-left lawfare firm Democracy Forward went to court to stop the deportations. Activist Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. ordered the Trump administration not to remove any violent illegal aliens for 14 days, but the airplanes carrying them were already on their way.
While court actions are ongoing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to remove wanted criminals still in the U.S. every day.
Like Miguel Antonio Verdugo-Garcia, 49, who is wanted in Mexico for homicide. Sporting a white cable-knit cardigan sweater adorned with Scottie dogs, Verdugo-Garcia was removed from Arizona by ICE officials on March 13. He had been arrested for assault by Glendale Police Department, and the Avondale Police Department arrested him for false report to law enforcement before he was deported. He had previously been removed from the U.S. three times in 2019, according to ICE.
As the Biden administration’s flights full of illegal aliens scattered them off unannounced all over the U.S., the mantra of the right became “Every state is a border state.” Evidence of that truth is in the arrests ICE is now making of violent criminals in nearly every state.
Julio Cesar Henao, 38, is a citizen of Colombia, but he is wanted in Panama for the Sept. 2020 aggravated rape of a child. ICE arrested him outside his home in State College, Pennsylvania on March 14. Cesar Henao was picked up by U.S. Border Patrol near Eagle Pass, Texas for entering the United States without permission by an immigration official on May 26, 2022, according to ICE. The next day he was enrolled the “alternatives to detention program” and released into the U.S., eventually making his way to Pennsylvania. He lived freely for several years. Normally, sex offenders must register on Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law website so neighbors can be informed of their presence. Cesar Henao did not put himself on Megan’s List.
Roshan Tamang (ICE)
Neither did another sex offender arrested by ICE Cincinnati, Ohio. Roshan Tamang of Bhutan was arrested March 11 for being in the U.S. illegally. According to ICE, Tamang has been convicted of gross sexual imposition, interfering with an arresting officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal mischief, and criminal trespass.
ICE officials in Minnesota don’t know when Alexander Cruz Rodriguez, 29, entered the U.S., but they found he was present illegally and wanted in El Salvador for rape of a minor. He was sent back to El Salvador Feb. 14.
Alexander Cruz Rodriguez (ICE)
ICE has removed Manuel Tellez from Dallas, Texas, but not before he killed a man on April 3, 2022. Tellez, 48, is a citizen of Mexico, and according to ICE he stabbed a man seven times, killing him, then went to get gasoline and used it to burn the victim’s body.
“Tellez was initially charged with homicide but pled guilty to the lesser offense of manslaughter. He received no prison time for this conviction and was placed back into the community with community supervision for eight years,” according to a March 11 ICE statement. “ICE and federal law enforcement partners from the FBI and CBP assisted in the arrest of Tellez after locating him within the community. Tellez remains in ICE custody pending immigration removal proceedings.”
Manuel Tellez (ICE)
With loose immigration rules, criminally reentering the U.S. multiple times after deportation is a common theme among those ICE is now rounding up.
In 2018, Elmer Edin Chavarria-Morales, 32, of Honduras was convicted of rape in Indiana. He was deported after his conviction, but reentered the U.S. twice and was deported each of those times, once in 2021 and again in 2022. He came back to the U.S. a third time and was again arrested, this time in Florida, on April 2, 2024, by Daytona Beach Police Department. Through that arrest, he was convicted for domestic violence on April 16, 2024, according to ICE. After his arrest, authorities realized he was again in the U.S. illegally. It was not until February 2025 that he was sentenced to prison in the U.S. for three years and 10 months.
While activist judges interfere with Trump’s policies to remove illegal thugs from the U.S., new victims are still being hurt.
Gedion Masunsu (ICE)
Gedion Masunsu, 28, was charged Jan. 25 in Waltham, Massachusetts with two counts of assault and battery on a pregnant woman and destruction of property. An illegal alien from Uganda, he should not have been in the U.S. to commit this crime.
“Masunsu attempted to enter the United States at Boston Logan International Airport April 14, 2021, using an expired visa. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued Masunsu an order of expedited removal and paroled him into the U.S.,” according to ICE. That means Biden’s policies allowed Masunsu to roam the country, which he did for years, until Waltham Police Department arrested him on Jan. 6. “ICE lodged an immigration detainer later that day against Masunsu with the Waltham District Court, which failed to honor the detainer and released Masunsu from custody.” Some U.S. prisons and courts are refusing to do custody exchanges with ICE. Instead of a tidy handoff from one agency to another, the court or prison releases the person when they are done locally, and ICE has to find them and rearrest them.
During Biden’s term, illegal aliens living in the U.S. were, “convicted of more than 66,000 crimes, including murder, manslaughter, assault, battery, domestic violence, burglary, robbery, larceny, theft, fraud, driving under the influence, illicit drug possession and trafficking, illegal possession of weaponry, and a slew of sexual offenses like rape,” reported The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd.
Biden said it would take an act of Congress to stem the flow at the border, but it didn’t. With Trump’s new immigration policies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that it is reducing the number of “soft-sided facilities” along the U.S./Mexico border, “after President Trump issued executive orders on Jan. 20 that led to historically low apprehensions, saving between $5 [million] and $30 million per month for each facility,” a CBP statement said. These processing facilities are where illegal aliens have been held, but they are no longer needed because illegal aliens are now being quickly removed instead of being released into the U.S. as they were under Biden.
The left bristles at the honest label “illegal alien,” because it underscores this population’s first act in the U.S. was to break the law by entering illegally. Many did that because they would not have been accepted through legal means. Whether they were running from the law in their home country or hoping to better their standard of living, all who have broken entry laws should be removed. Criminals should be at the front of the line. When Biden invited unvetted people to be “paroled” into our communities he invited a culture of crime that should disgust every thinking person.
Any Democrat activist group or judge working to keep illegal alien criminals in the U.S. cares nothing about the safety of law abiding U.S. citizens.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
