U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested five Mexican nationals across multiple cities for prior violent crime convictions, three of whom had been convicted of sexual offenses against children, with the others facing convictions for assault and family violence. ICE data from September 2024 indicated that over 425,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions were present in the country. The arrests were highlighted by ICE as part of ongoing targeted enforcement operations.

ICE agents arrested Carlos Ambriz, a 53-year-old Mexican national, near his residence in Catoosa, Oklahoma on March 25, after he had re-entered the country following a 2006 deportation. Ambriz had been convicted in Montana of deliberately killing his own child and received a 40-year prison sentence. He remains in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Ramiro Guevara, a 46-year-old Mexican national, on March 26 in connection with a 2014 vehicle accident that killed a 13-year-old girl, for which he was never charged despite being wanted at the time for driving without a license. Guevara had remained at large despite a deportation order dating to 2017. He was taken into ICE custody following his arrest.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with assistance from federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, arrested 72 illegal aliens — including 61 criminal aliens and two documented gang members — during a targeted enforcement operation conducted from March 16 to 22 in the Rio Grande Valley area. Those arrested included individuals charged or convicted of offenses ranging from aggravated assault and sex crimes against minors to drug trafficking, alien smuggling, and DWI. The operation was aimed at bolstering public safety, national security, and border security in the region.

Three illegal immigrants have been charged in connection with a deadly drunk-driving crash on a highway in Arlington, Texas, after 25-year-old Cesar Ramirez Castro swerved his Ford F-150 onto the shoulder of I-20, slamming into a parked vehicle that then collided with a concrete barrier and burst into flames. A 22-year-old man was found dead inside the burning vehicle when the fire was extinguished. Ramirez Castro was charged with intoxication manslaughter and collision involving death, while two passengers — both also with immigration holds — were charged with public intoxication.

As many Democratic-run cities across America resist the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push, law enforcement agencies in Texas' two largest cities — Houston and San Antonio — are now alerting ICE whenever they encounter illegal immigrants with federal administrative warrants. Houston Police Department officers are directed to contact ICE upon detecting such individuals and to discuss options for transferring them to federal custody; San Antonio police are following a similar policy, with officers directed via internal email to contact ICE's Law Enforcement Service Center and request an officer come to the scene to make an arrest.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Orbelin Benitez-Carbajal, a 49-year-old previously deported criminal alien convicted of manslaughter, to Mexico on March 17. Benitez-Carbajal had been convicted of multiple offenses while illegally present in the U.S., including manslaughter in Travis County in 2010, assault in 2006, DWI in 2023, and illegal re-entry in 2024 — having previously been deported to Mexico in December 2014. ICE's Houston Field Office Director stated that despite serving prison time and a prior deportation, Benitez-Carbajal illegally re-entered the country and continued to commit crimes.

Jacqueline Medina drove 13 hours from Nevada to Texas to face her daughter's alleged murderer in court for the first time on February 6. Rafael Govea Romero, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, is accused of breaking into Medina's former Edna, Texas apartment and fatally stabbing her 16-year-old daughter Lizbeth — who was getting ready for school — and leaving her body in a bathtub. At the hearing in Jackson County, a judge found Romero competent to stand trial and set a tentative trial date for August.

Francisco Oropeza, 38, a Mexican national who had been deported four times between 2009 and 2016, pleaded guilty to capital murder of multiple persons and will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole, avoiding a potential death sentence. Oropeza stormed into his neighbor's home in Cleveland, Texas on April 28, 2023, after being asked to stop firing his AR-style rifle late at night, killing five people — including an eight-year-old boy — all of whom were from Honduras. San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said Oropeza "will stay in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice until he breathes his last breath."

ICE agents in Philadelphia arrested Gora Tourie Fall, a 34-year-old Senegalese national wanted for murder in Brazil, during a targeted enforcement operation on December 10. Fall had been caught and released by the Biden-Harris administration's Border Patrol in Eagle Pass, Texas in April 2021, was issued a notice to appear before an immigration judge, and then released on parole. ICE says it became aware of Fall's outstanding murder warrant in Brazil in May and he is now being held in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.