A Mexican national with a record of serious sex crimes against children has been deported, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday.

Miguel Saldivar-Moran, 45, was removed from the United States to Mexico on April 29. ICE officials said Saldivar had entered the country illegally in 1997, crossing from Mexico into Arizona without inspection or parole.

🚨JUST IN: ICE agents in Buffalo, NY removed an illegal alien with convictions for "acting in a course of sexual conduct against a child" and "criminal sex act."

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Saldivar had a lengthy criminal history in the U.S., including convictions between 2003 and 2013 for three DWIs and one count of endangering the welfare of a child, resulting in probation and fines. On May 14, 2019, Suffolk County Court in Long Island, New York convicted him of multiple sex crimes. These included first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree criminal sex act, acting in course of sexual conduct against a child, and acting in a manner to injure a child.

“ICE will not tolerate criminal aliens who violate innocent children in our communities,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Acting Deputy Field Office Director Philip Rhoney. “We will pursue these vile predators with utmost urgency and effect their removal from the United States.”

An immigration judge first ordered Saldivar removed from the U.S. on September 7, 2016. He appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied his case on June 30, 2017.

ICE officials in Buffalo arrested Saldivar on April 10 following his release from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in Attica, New York.

In another recent case, Authorities in Florida reported the arrest of another illegal immigrant with a troubling history. Samuel Cobos-Carmona, 20, a Mexican national who had previously been deported, was taken into custody on April 21 in Charlotte County. He faces charges of lewd or lascivious battery for allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a 13-year-old boy, according to jail records.

Cobos-Carmona, who had been working as a lawn mower, reportedly approached the victim in the backyard of the boy’s home. Investigators said the child had been playing hide-and-seek with his brother and was hiding in the woods when Cobos-Carmona allegedly asked if he could touch his genitals, to which the child said no.