ICE officers in Houston arrested 735 criminal illegal aliens last month who collectively racked up more than 1,700 criminal convictions—proof that the open border isn't just a policy dispute, but a direct threat to American safety.
While the mainstream media and elected officials routinely frame illegal immigration as a story of harmless economic migrants seeking a better life, the data tells a darker story about who is actually slipping through the cracks and settling into American communities. The cost is paid by citizens who never asked to be collateral damage in Washington's reckless border experiment.
According to ICE officials, nearly 1,200 of the 1,711 convictions—roughly 70 percent—were for violent crimes or threats to public safety. The May arrests included murderers, rapists, child predators, arsonists, and drug traffickers. Twenty-five of those arrested were confirmed members of violent transnational gangs like MS-13, Surenos 13, 18th Street, and Tango Blast.
The conviction breakdown is staggering. Among the 735 arrestees: five homicides and one attempted capital murder of a police officer; 38 sex offenses, including 13 child sex offenses; 12 sex trafficking convictions; 224 aggravated assault, assault, and battery convictions; and 30 weapons offenses. The data also reveals 495 DWI convictions, with multiple repeat offenders—three aliens had six DWIs each, and dozens more had three or more. These are not people who stumbled into a bad decision. These are chronic violators.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston acting Field Office Director Gabriel Martinez made clear this is the new normal, not an outlier.
“We’re releasing this data not because it stands out from any other month, but because this is a snapshot of who we’re arresting every single month, as a result of the reckless immigration policies enacted by prior administrations that allowed gang members, murderers, child rapists and other violent criminal illegal aliens to flood into the country unvetted,” Martinez said. “The public needs to know that the aliens we’re targeting aren’t the harmless economic migrants that the mainstream media and elected officials try to portray. These are violent criminals who repeatedly violate our laws, and there’s no doubt if we don’t arrest and deport them from the U.S., they will continue to commit crimes, and more Americans will be victimized as a result.”
The press will bury these numbers. They will spin the arrests as targeting “undocumented workers” or paint enforcement as cruelty. They will not mention the 13 child sex offenses, the attempted murder of a cop, or the sex trafficking convictions. They will not ask who the victims are or how many Americans are dead or traumatized because the political class refused to secure the border.
If 735 criminals with 1,700 convictions can be rounded up in a single month in a single city, the question isn't whether the border crisis is real—it's how many thousands more are still out there, and how many more Americans will be victimized before Washington is forced to do its job.
