ICE reviews extra prison migrants arrested as sufferer assist program marks one 12 months

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement introduced on Thursday it had arrested extra alleged unlawful migrants who've been convicted of assorted crimes, which coincides with the one-year anniversary of the company reopening its program to assist victims of migrant crime. The arrests and convictions described by ICE haven't been independently verified.

ICE's Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Workplace was relaunched on April 10, 2025, aiming to supply sources to victims of crimes dedicated by unlawful migrants and the victims' households.

This system was first launched in 2017 beneath President Donald Trump's first administration however was changed in 2021 by the Victims Engagement and Providers Line, a special program beneath the Biden administration earlier than it was relaunched final 12 months after Trump returned to workplace.

ICE mentioned the anniversary of this system's reopening comes simply after a number of arrests have been made on Wednesday of suspected unlawful migrants convicted of crimes resembling damage to a baby, assault and theft. ICE didn't specify whether or not the people have been newly arrested or transferred from native custody following prior convictions, nor did it present dates for the underlying convictions.

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Juan Lorenzo Hurtado-Flores, Vu Nguyen, Omar Alexander Rodriguez-Grande, Oscar Fransisco and Josue Coreas-Chavez. (ICE:Getty Photographs)

"The courageous males and girls of ICE legislation enforcement proceed to focus on prison unlawful aliens in our communities to stop one other American from being raped, maimed, or murdered by an unlawful alien who ought to have NEVER been in our nation. The American victims are [why] we struggle," Division of Homeland Safety Performing Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Lauren Bis mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital.

"Yesterday, ICE arrested a number of violent assailants, together with one wicked monster who injured a CHILD. With each arrest, ICE is making American communities safer. We are going to by no means cease preventing for justice for the victims of unlawful alien crime," Bis continued.

The company supplied a pattern of a number of the arrests. ICE didn't say what number of whole people have been arrested nationwide as a part of this announcement.

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ICE's Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Workplace was relaunched on April 10, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

Juan Lorenzo Hurtado-Flores, from Peru, was convicted of prison obstruction of respiratory or blood circulation and damage to a baby in White Plains, New York, based on ICE.

Vu Nguyen, from Vietnam, was convicted of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in Pasadena, California, the company mentioned.

The company mentioned Omar Alexander Rodriguez-Grande, from El Salvador, was convicted of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon in Harris County, Texas.

Oscar Fransisco, from Guatemala, was convicted of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon in Palm Seashore, Florida, based on the company.

VOICE was first launched beneath President Donald Trump's first administration however was changed in 2021 by one other sufferer companies program beneath the Biden administration. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

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ICE mentioned Josue Coreas-Chavez, from El Salvador, was convicted of theft in Riverhead, New York.

"Unlawful aliens harming Americans is unconscionable. However now, because of President Trump, we're capable of assist individuals victimized by prison aliens via the VOICE Workplace," ICE Performing Director Todd Lyons mentioned when the relaunch of this system was introduced final 12 months. "I am extraordinarily pleased with ICE’s whole workforce — the officers and brokers on the bottom who're imposing immigration legislation pretty, the assist workers who pull these operations collectively and deal with logistics, and those that assist shine a light-weight on those that have suffered hurt at unlawful aliens’ arms."

VOICE was changed in 2021 throughout the Biden administration with the Victims Engagement and Providers Line to "function a extra complete and inclusive sufferer assist system supplied by ICE that may guarantee companies are supplied to all victims no matter immigration standing of the sufferer or perpetrator."

"Offering help to society’s most susceptible is a core American worth. All individuals, no matter their immigration standing, ought to be capable of entry sufferer companies with out concern," then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas mentioned on the time.