Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 10,000 gang members since President Donald Trump returned to office. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the arrests include alleged members of MS-13 and the Tren de Aragua gang, along with suspects wanted in their home countries for alleged crimes ranging from murder and extortion to racketeering and drug trafficking.
Border Patrol has now gone 13 straight months without releasing a single illegal immigrant into the interior after apprehension at the southwest border. In May, agents recorded 9,998 apprehensions, a figure DHS says is 94 percent below the monthly average during the Biden administration. During the surge in December 2023, Border Patrol was processing nearly that many illegal crossings in a single day.
Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe Biden.
— Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS) June 24, 2026
Under @POTUS Trump’s leadership and thanks to the Secure America Act, @ICEgov is turbocharged to arrest even more gang members and criminals from American neighborhoods. https://t.co/L8OC0Dj2hz
According to DHS, the 10,000th arrest was Javier Hernandez Rosas, an alleged MS-13 member from Mexico whose criminal history includes a cocaine possession conviction and prior arrests for abduction and weapons possession.
Josue Saul Garcia-Lopez, arrested in Virginia, is wanted in El Salvador on robbery and extortion charges. Danny Granados-Garcia is wanted there for the murder of a pastor. David Antonio Aviles Perez is wanted for aggravated murder and has previously accumulated arrests in California for assault with a deadly weapon, controlled substance possession, and petty theft. Edwin Antonio Hernandez Hernandez, according to DHS, confessed to five murders in El Salvador before entering the United States.
One case already familiar to RedState readers also appeared on DHS's list.
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Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, an alleged Tren de Aragua member, was arrested after investigators found him allegedly living on property owned by former New Mexico Judge Joel Cano. Ortega-Lopez later pleaded guilty to federal firearms and conspiracy to destroy evidence charges. Cano and his wife were separately charged with evidence tampering. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited that case as an example of the type of offender ICE is now prioritizing through interior enforcement operations.
DHS argues the decline in illegal crossings has changed how the agency can use its personnel. Instead of committing large numbers of agents to processing migrants after apprehension, the department says ICE has been able to devote additional resources to locating gang members and other criminal offenders already inside the country. Congress's recently approved Secure America Act is expected to further expand those efforts.
DHS says nationwide drug seizures in May increased 32 percent compared with the same month last year, while fentanyl seizures rose 72 percent from April. Overall, drug seizures this fiscal year are running well ahead of last year's pace. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott credited the administration's broader enforcement strategy.
"This milestone, coupled with historically low illegal crossings, demonstrates our unwavering commitment to securing our nation. Our robust enforcement policies are working, and we are delivering unprecedented results in border security, drug interdiction, and trade enforcement."
The administration has also deported nearly 900,000 illegal immigrants since Trump's inauguration, another figure it has pointed to as enforcement continues to expand.
Democrats spent years saying this wasn't possible. That mass releases were unavoidable. That the system couldn't handle it. Ten thousand arrests later, the argument is over. The people ICE is pulling out of American communities were alleged murderers, cartel members, and gangbangers who got in, got released, and got left alone. They aren't hard to find. ICE just had to be allowed to look.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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