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.

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.