The Department of Homeland Security asserted that ICE operations targeting dangerous criminals will continue uninterrupted during any government funding lapse, emphasizing the agency's focus on apprehending individuals convicted of pedophilia, murder, and human trafficking.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced enforcement actions targeting individuals with serious criminal convictions. The operation focused on apprehending foreign nationals convicted of violent crimes, drug trafficking, sexual conduct with a minor, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations arrested Dennis Costa, 66, a lawful permanent resident and registered sex offender previously convicted of child rape and abuse in Massachusetts. Costa, a Portuguese citizen who entered the U.S. in 1969, faces immigration proceedings before a judge while in ICE custody.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 65 individuals during a four-day Connecticut operation called Operation Broken Trust, targeting transnational organized crime members and gang associates. Among those apprehended, 29 had prior convictions or charges for serious crimes including kidnapping, assault, drug offenses, weapons violations, and sex crimes.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE placed a detainer on Lorenzo Lopez Alcario, a 30-year-old Guatemalan national accused of sexually assaulting a child. Alcario had been deported in 2017 for drug possession but re-entered the U.S. in June 2022 and was subsequently released by the Biden administration.
A 44-year-old Salvadoran national pleaded guilty to unlawful reentry after being arrested by ICE Boston in March 2024. Arsenio Valladares had been previously deported in 2008 and possessed convictions for violent crimes including assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer. He faces up to 10 years in prison and mandatory deportation upon sentencing.
Two members of MS-13 were sentenced following an investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations New England. The defendants were responsible for a previously unsolved 2010 murder in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where a 28-year-old victim was fatally stabbed multiple times.
A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after being deported twice previously. Manuel Ruiz-Luis, 52, was arrested in New Bedford in March 2025 and faces up to two years in prison at his September sentencing.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Victor Vasquez Cordova, a 54-year-old El Salvadorian national and Level 1 registered sex offender, in Everett, Massachusetts for immigration violations. Cordova had been convicted in 2022 of possessing child sexual abuse material and was sentenced to probation with mandatory sex offender registration.
ICE Boston arrested a 53-year-old Dominican national on charges of unlawfully reentering the U.S. after deportation. The suspect, with prior convictions for weapons and drug offenses, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
