ICE's Houston field office deported 174 criminal aliens to Mexico over a two-week period, a group that collectively carried 610 criminal convictions ranging from homicide to driving under the influence. One notable case involved Julian Estrada-Garcia, a Mexican national who had illegally entered the United States 39 separate times. The group included 24 gang members and convictions spanning drug trafficking, sexual assault of children, firearms offenses, and human smuggling.

Enrique Campos-Gomez, 45, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been deported in 2014. He carried a prior Dallas County conviction for sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl, as well as convictions for domestic violence and failure to register as a sex offender. He was sentenced to 35 months in federal prison by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.

Jose Mejia-Carranza, a 37-year-old Honduran national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas for illegally reentering the United States after being deported in October 2023. He was located in Sherman, Texas in August 2024 and now faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.

The United States secured the extraditions of alleged murderers, a child rapist, an MS-13 leader, an alien smuggler, drug traffickers, a cybercriminal, a fraudster, and an immigration scammer through coordination with law enforcement authorities in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Among those extradited was Eswin Mejia, wanted for the 2016 vehicular homicide of 21-year-old Sarah Root in Nebraska, and Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco, an alleged leader of a Guatemala-based alien smuggling organization connected to the deadly June 2022 San Antonio mass casualty incident.

The Department of Justice announced plans to extradite three Tren de Aragua members — Adrian Rafael Gamez Finol, Miguel Oyola Jimenez, and Edgar Javier Benitez Rubio — who illegally entered the United States after allegedly committing crimes in Chile, including extortion, kidnapping resulting in homicide, and kidnapping for ransom. Based on their membership in Tren de Aragua, the three men have been declared Alien Enemies under the Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department stated it will work expeditiously to return these individuals to Chile to face justice.

A U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation effort resulted in Mexico executing arrest warrants against Brian Alan Torres Gonzalez and Soledad Morales Nava, members of a Juarez-based alien smuggling organization with ties to Mexican cartels that operated smuggling corridors in the Anapra, Chihuahua / Santa Teresa, New Mexico area. The organization was responsible for illegally smuggling large numbers of individuals, including children, from Central America into El Paso, Texas, and also allegedly kidnapped aliens and extorted their families before completing smuggling journeys.

A federal jury convicted Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzalez-Ortega for their roles in a June 2022 alien smuggling event in which approximately 66 migrants were loaded into a tractor-trailer lacking functioning air conditioning, resulting in the deaths of 53 people — including children — and injuries to 11 others. A third defendant, Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco, an alleged leader of a Guatemala-based smuggling organization who arranged the travel of migrants who perished in the trailer, was extradited from Guatemala to face charges in the United States.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that 29 defendants wanted in the United States were taken into U.S. custody from Mexico, facing charges including racketeering, drug trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, and money laundering. The defendants include leaders and managers of cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG, Cártel del Noreste, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and the Gulf Cartel. The announcement represented a significant development in U.S.-Mexico cooperation against drug trafficking organizations.

Humberto Yosvany Arriola-Rivero, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and harboring aliens, including for sexually assaulting a migrant at an El Paso stash house. Arriola-Rivero had facilitated the smuggling of hundreds of undocumented individuals. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working with the FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety, arrested Jesus Alberto Escalona-Mujicas, a 47-year-old Venezuelan national and documented Tren de Aragua gang member, during targeted enforcement operations in Bryan, Texas on April 9, 2025. Escalona-Mujicas had illegally entered the country and absconded before his court-ordered removal could be executed in March 2024. He was taken into ICE custody pending removal proceedings.