Officers in Campbell County, Virginia said they have arrested an illegal migrant in connection with the sexual assault of a minor.
Last week, the sheriff’s office arrested Renzo Mendoza Montes, a 32-year-old man, on a pair of charges related to the sexual assault of a minor.
Deputies say Montes is a Venezuelan citizen who has been in the country illegally since September 3 last year, when he crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas.
He was detained and released by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and sent on his way.
It was first reported that Montes was being held without bond, but it is believed he is now in ICE custody.
Few other details are currently available about the sexual assault he allegedly committed, but his arrest is the latest in a series of violent crimes against American citizens by illegal immigrants.
Last week, the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office arrested Renzo Mendoza Montes, a 32-year-old man, on one count of sexual assault of a minor.
Mendoza is the latest case of an illegal migrant arrested following the horrific beating of a U.S. citizen
Another illegal immigrant from Venezuela, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, was arrested for the murder of 22-year-old UGA nursing student Laken Riley, who was found in a wooded area last Thursday afternoon.
Ibarra was charged with murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping and concealing the death of another. He was denied bail on Saturday morning.
But the aggravated murder is not the first time he has been in trouble with the law while in the US illegally.
Just five months ago, Ibarra was arrested and charged with “acting in a manner likely to injure a child under 17 years of age and a motorcycle license violation,” according to ICE.
The NYPD released him “before any detainee could be released,” the agency said.
New York City is also a “sanctuary city,” which typically limits law enforcement agencies from enforcing ICE detainees.
The series of violent crimes highlights the massive immigration problem currently facing the Biden administration ahead of the 2024 elections.
Last fiscal year, Biden’s presidency saw the highest number of encounters at the border ever.
At least 2.4 million migrants flooded the U.S. southern border in fiscal year 2023, and that figure only represents the encounters Border Patrol agents had — there are plenty of people crossing illegally who didn’t come into contact with DHS officers.
That 2.4 million number equates to an average of about 6,575 encounters per day, some of which inevitably commit violent crimes.
Another illegal immigrant from Venezuela, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, was arrested for the murder of 22-year-old UGA nursing student Laken Riley, who was found in a wooded area last Thursday afternoon.
The UGA murder victim was killed by “blunt force trauma,” police investigating her death said
Border Patrol monitors an outdoor processing center in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., December 20, 2023
After processing in El Paso, Texas, migrants are loaded onto buses and shipped to Denver, Colorado
A U.S. Border Patrol agent yells at immigrants who were in a long line of people waiting for transportation from the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 6, 2023
Liberal cities like New York and Chicago, which have brought in hundreds of thousands of migrants from border states — an effort led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — are increasing their pressure on the Biden administration to provide emergency aid.
Several Democratic mayors are now asking for $5 billion in aid, a significantly higher amount than the $1.5 billion the White House requested from Congress.
Capitol Hill lawmakers have fought unsuccessfully among themselves in recent months over some kind of border policy that would stem the flow of illegal migrants into the country.
In December, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was recently impeached by a narrow margin in the Republican-led House, defended his efforts at the border: “We do have asylum laws. We do indeed have a refugee law. We adhere to our longstanding international obligations.”
Referring to Congress’ legislative efforts, he said, “Some proposals are reasonable and deserve discussion. Others, quite frankly, are not.”