While Democrats spring to the aid of criminal illegal immigrants, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents continue to clear the nation’s streets of the “worst of the worst.”
Over the weekend, ICE officers arrested some very violent illegal immigrants, including “pedophiles, drug traffickers, abusers, and other violent thugs,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official told The Federalist in a statement.
From Parole to Deportation
The list of the apprehended includes Jung Choi, a 53-year-old California resident and South Korean national convicted in 2020 of voluntary manslaughter, according to Department of Homeland Security documents exclusively provided to The Federalist. In 2017, Choi assisted a male companion, Sang Ji, who murdered his wife, Yoon “Clara” Ji, according to the criminal case. Yoon Ji died “as the result of head injuries caused by blunt trauma suffered from repeated blows by an object.” The woman’s body was discovered in a ravine near San Juan Bautista, California.
“Ji and Choi were arrested in December 2017, four days after one of Ji’s daughters filed a missing person’s report for their mother,” San Benito Live reported. “The daughter contacted the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office after becoming suspicious of Ji’s claim that his wife had gone to South Korea to care for her ailing mother.”
Sang Ji was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in California state prison.
Choi was paroled on Friday. ICE agents were waiting for her. She’ll be heading back to South Korea.
“We are not going to allow this murderer and criminal illegal alien to remain in our country,” the DHS official told The Federalist.
More from the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Files
Also arrested:
› Marion Andres Gomez-Arenas, 41. The criminal illegal alien from Colombia has a long rap sheet that includes 23 criminal arrests and 18 convictions in the state of Georgia, according to DHS. Gomez-Arenas’ record includes charges of fraud, forgery, shoplifting, driving under the influence, obstruction of a law enforcement officer, possession of tools for commission of a crime, false identification documents, and a probation violation.
› Arturo Serrano-Zeferino, a foreign national from Mexico. He’s been convicted on charges of felony stalking, domestic violence, and a protection order violation in Wake County, North Carolina, according to DHS.
› Zoilo Holguin-Tavarez, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic. According to DHS, he has been convicted of possession of illegal substances with intent to deliver and carrying a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
› Kelin Henriquez-Ruiz, a Nicaraguan foreign national convicted of assault causing bodily injury in Austin, Texas, DHS reports.
› Rigoberto Morales Hernandez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted of alien smuggling in Albany, N.Y., according to Homeland Security.
› Miguel Martinez. DHS says the criminal illegal alien from Mexico has been convicted on charges of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and disseminating obscenity to a minor in Washington County, North Carolina.
› Xaykham Mannavong, a foreign national from Laos. He was convicted on charges of aggravated assault with a gun in Los Angeles, according to DHS.
› Madai Perez-Perez, a 33-year-old criminal illegal alien from Guatemala. DHS reports that Perez was convicted on a charge of willful poisoning of food on a person in Placer County, California.
› Long Duc Tran, an illegal immigrant from Vietnam. Tran, according to DHS, was convicted on charges of assault in Montgomery County, Maryland, and for aggravated malicious wounding with a firearm in Arlington, Virginia.
“Day after day, ICE is going after the worst of the worst because under President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem DHS will always put AMERICANS first,” the senior DHS official said in the statement.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
