Border Czar Homan: ICE Arrests Have Included At Least One Suspected Terrorist
Charlie Kirk Staff
01/24/2025

Border Czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, in collaboration with law enforcement partners, have made approximately 1,300 arrests during deportation operations since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
According to a report published Friday by the New York Post, those arrested include known pedophiles, gang members, and at least one suspected terrorist residing in New York.
Homan discussed the ongoing operations with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, explaining that over 1,000 of the individuals arrested had committed crimes beyond entering the United States illegally or overstaying a visa.
“What I can tell you right now, Chris, is we’ve arrested 1300 people, over a thousand of them are criminals,” Homan began. “Who are the other ones? They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals.”
Homan further explained that “collaterals” refer to undocumented immigrants who may not have committed crimes beyond entering the country illegally but were apprehended during operations targeting others. Those individuals were often encountered when ICE agents arrested individuals who should have been detained by local authorities but were not, due to their residing in “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
“Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table,” Homan added. “If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem. But we are concentrating on public safety threats first. That just makes sense.”
The Post reported that ICE New York had released a statement announcing the capture of “Gokhan Adriguzel, a 30-year-old Turkish national who is a ‘known or suspected terrorist.’”
“Juan Francisco Sanchez Contreras, 22, an El Salvador national, is an MS-13 gang member and was illegally living in the United States until today,” the statement also said.
ICE agents in Buffalo announced the apprehension of “Pedro Julio Meja, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was previously convicted of sexual conduct against a child,” along with “Luis Alberto Espinoza-Boconsaca, an Ecuadorian who was convicted of rape.”
A third arrest in Buffalo was Canadian citizen Albert Mills, who was previously convicted of “endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of stolen property.”
ICE conducted arrests in cities across the United States, including two Chinese nationals in St. Louis, Missouri; 24-year-old Venezuelan and known Tren de Aragua gang member Yoswaldo Jose Mata-Ribice in San Antonio, Texas; and 42-year-old Mexican national and Barrio Azteca gang member Jesus Alberto Barron-Lavin in El Paso, Texas.
In Boston, a violent Haitian gang member with 18 criminal convictions in recent years was among several individuals apprehended during a raid that was captured in real-time by Fox News.
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