Pro-illegal-alien rioters in Los Angeles, California, didn’t attack Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents because they were deporting a poor, helpless “migrant” dad just trying to earn a living to support his family.
Rather, border czar Tom Homan told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo, they attacked when agents raided a business that imported almost $100 million in goods and didn’t pay import tariffs. And that business, he said, is linked to south-of-the-border terror-gang cartels. Agents arrested not only more than three dozen illegals, but also several dangerous illegal-alien criminals, including a Filipino child rapist and a Vietnamese double murderer.
The “protesters” tried to block ICE from arresting those thugs and goons. So the anarchists and communists sided with a murderer and other illegal-alien criminals.
The Operation
Homan called the claim that ICE was stoking “fear” in the community for no reason a “false narrative.”
“We served three criminal search warrants” in cases that involved “money laundering, tax evasion, and customs fraud,” he said:
We got a company that brought in over $87 million of goods … underdeclared, and they failed to pay $17 million in tariff taxes. And it’s part of a bigger overarching investigation [about] how some of the money of these companies is being funneled to Mexico and Colombia to fund cartel activity.
Thus did ICE serve criminal warrants, with agents arresting 40 illegal aliens that worked for the company. Same day, teams on the streets rounded up other criminals, including the murderer, “several child sexual predators,” and a thrice-convicted domestic abuser.
“We took a lot of bad people off the street that day,” Homan told Cuomo.
Protesters didn’t care, and didn’t ask officials what they were doing. Nor did the media cover the material ICE distributed to explain it, the border czar said.
Instead, protesters “blocked the agents from leaving safely with the people we had in our custody … and the evidence we had in our custody.” When ICE called cops for help, Mayor Karen Bass “told them to stand down,” Homan explained.
Thus, Homan backed President Trump’s decision to federalize the National Guard.
As for what ICE plans for the future, Homan said the enforcement will continue, protests regardless.
“We got over 100 teams out there today,” Homan said:
We’ll have over 100 teams tomorrow. We’re going to do this every day across this nation. We got a job to do and we’re going to do it.
Homan has no problem with those who protest ICE peacefully. But they cannot, he said, interfere with agents who are enforcing the law. “Do not put hands on an ICE officer,” he warned. “Do not throw Molotov cocktails. … Don’t destroy what the taxpayers paid for.”
Homan noted that he doesn’t like “raids” being used to describe “targeted enforcement operations.” ICE agents know who they are supposed to arrest.
As well, he continued, there are 1.4 million illegals “who had due process at great taxpayer expense. They’ve been ordered removed. So a judge issued an order; they must leave this country.”
The Criminals Arrested
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) helpfully published a list of the illegal-alien criminals ICE arrested.
Tops among them is Cuong Chanh Phan. In 1994, “Phan and his gang member associates were asked to leave a high school graduation party following a dispute,” DHS reported:
They returned with semiautomatic weapons and fired shots at 30 partygoers. Dennis Buan, 18, of South Pasadena and David Hang, 15, of San Marino, California were killed, and seven others were wounded.
Following the shooting, more than 120 sheriff’s deputies and police officers launched a manhunt that resulted in the arrests of Phan and eight other alleged gang members linked to the murders and shootout.
Some of others were these cultural enrichers, illegal aliens all, DHS reported:
- Filipino Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, 55, burglary, sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape;
- Ecuadoran Jose Gregorio Medranda Ortiz, 42, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine;
- Peruvian Jose Cristobal Hernandez-Buitron, 43, robbery; and
- Honduran Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, 32, distribution of heroin and cocaine and domestic violence.
There were also six Mexicans:
- Lionel Sanchez-Laguna, 55, discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling and vehicle, spousal battery, cruelty to a child, driving while intoxicated, assault with a semi-automatic firearm;
- Armando Ordaz, 44, sexual battery, receiving stolen property, petty theft;
- Francisco Sanchez-Arguello, 38, grand larceny, possession of a prohibited weapon;
- Victor Mendoza-Aguilar, 32, possessing unlawful paraphernalia, possessing controlled substances, assault with a deadly weapon: not firearm, obstructing a public officer;
- Delfino Aguilar-Martinez, 51, assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury; and
- Jesus Alan Hernandez-Morales, 26, conspiracy to transport an illegal alien.
DHS called the motley crew of thugs and goons the “worst illegal alien criminals in Los Angeles.”
And those are just a handful of the dangerous illegals on the loose. As The New American reported in September, citing ICE data through July and released to GOP Representative Tony Gonzales, more than 660,000 illegal aliens either convicted of a crime or facing criminal charges were then running wild and free.
Included in that number were more than 13,000 convicted of homicide and more than 25,000 convicted of sex crimes.
