Deputies in Campbell County, Virginia, said they arrested an illegal immigrant 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 felony charges related to the sexual assault of a minor.
Agents say Montes is a Venezuelan citizen who has been in the country illegally since September 3 of last year when he crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas.
He was detained and released by the United States Customs and Border Patrol and sent to his destination.
Montes was initially reported to be being held without bail, but is now believed to be 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 a pair of felony charges related to the sexual assault of a minor.
Mendoza is the latest case of an illegal migrant arrested after the atrocious attack on a US citizen
Another illegal Venezuelan immigrant, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was arrested for the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old UGA nursing student, who was found in a wooded area last Thursday afternoon.
Ibarra was charged with felony murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping and concealing the death of another person and was denied bail Saturday morning.
But the serious murder is not his first run-in with the law while illegally in the United States.
Just five months ago, Ibarra was arrested and charged with “acting in a manner to injure a child under the age of 17 and a driver’s license violation,” according to ICE.
The NYPD released him “before an arrest warrant could be issued,” the agency said.
New York City is also a “sanctuary city,” which generally prevents authorities from enforcing ICE detainers.
The high number of violent crimes highlights the enormous immigration problem currently facing the Biden administration ahead of the 2024 election.
Last fiscal year, the Biden presidency saw the highest number of border encounters ever recorded.
At least 2.4 million migrants crossed the southern border of the United States in fiscal year 2023, and that number only represents the encounters that border patrol agents had: there are many who crossed illegally who did not come into contact with agents from DHS.
That 2.4 million figure breaks down to an average of approximately 6,575 encounters per day, some of which inevitably end in violent crimes.
Another illegal Venezuelan immigrant, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was arrested for the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old UGA nursing student, who was found in a wooded area last Thursday afternoon.
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Border Patrol monitors an open-air processing center in Eagle Pass, Texas, US, December 20, 2023.
Migrants after being processed in El Paso, Texas, are loaded onto buses and sent to Denver, Colorado.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent yells at migrants who had gotten into a long line of people waiting to be transported from the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 6, 2023.
Liberal cities like New York and Chicago, where hundreds of thousands of migrants have been bused from border states — an effort led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — are ramping up pressure on the Biden administration to provide emergency aid. .
Several Democratic mayors are now asking for $5 billion in aid, significantly more than the $1.5 billion the White House requested from Congress.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have spent the last few months unsuccessfully fighting among themselves over some kind of border policy that would stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country.
In December, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was recently narrowly impeached in the Republican-led House, defended his efforts at the border: “We have asylum laws. We have refugee laws. “We fulfill our long-standing international obligations.”
Referring to Congress’ legislative efforts, he said: ‘Some of the proposals are reasonable and worthy of discussion. Others, frankly, don’t.