Scores of Violent Criminal Aliens Arrested in Minnesota as Media Focuses on Anti-ICE Protests

In just a few weeks Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested around 2,000 dangerous criminal aliens in Minnesota, including murderers, pedophiles, rapists and gangbangers though you would never know it based on mainstream media coverage. That is because most news outlets are focusing exclusively on the ICE agent shooting of a woman who interfered with the federal deportation operation and the subsequent anti-ICE protests over the incident, which occurred last week in Minneapolis. “Anti-ICE Protests Spread Nationwide,” reads the headline of a major national newspaper story that says, “mounting outrage over an ICE agent’s killing of a woman in Minneapolis spilled into streets across the country on Saturday, as crowds of protesters mobilized against what they called the excesses of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.” Another national news network claims that outrage has grown following the woman’s death with more an 1,000 demonstrations planned across the U.S. Minnesota’s largest newspaper reports that thousands marched in south Minneapolis to protest the state’s ongoing immigration operation.

Buried deep in some of these stories, though not all, is a quote from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official saying that thousands of illegal immigrants (most omit the word “criminal”) have been arrested during the Minneapolis crackdown, which began in December and is officially known as Operation Metro Surge. The pertinent information is portrayed as questionable in virtually all establishment media coverage and fails to elaborate on the alarming criminal histories of some of the apprehended illegal aliens even though DHS makes the information easily available. Instead, as has been the case with other immigration crackdown operations throughout the nation, media coverage has centered on victimizing the perpetrators. One national news network writes that an escalation of federal agents to Minneapolis is “sparking fear in the city’s immigrant communities.” It has also created “strong opposition among activists who are pushing back loudly against enforcement,” the piece states. Many outlets describe the activist shot by ICE as a mother and poet who represented freedom, love and peace while the Trump administration confirms she was a professional agitator engaged in an act of terrorism when the ICE agent shot her.

DHS says violent rioters and Minnesota politicians are actively trying to protect some of the world’s worst criminal offenders. “While ICE fights to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota—including child rapists, murderers, and more—violent rioters and agitators are actively trying to protect these vicious criminals by interfering and obstructing ICE operations,” the agency writes in a statement issued a few days ago. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are encouraging this behavior with their rhetoric of lawlessness while their sanctuary policies ensure that criminal aliens flock to their state to escape justice, according to DHS. ICE Director Todd M. Lyons says some of the criminal aliens recently arrested in Minneapolis have had removal orders for 30 years but have been free to “terrorize Minnesotans.” The arrests prevent recidivism and make communities safer, the ICE chief assures.

Here is a small sample of the violent offenders that have been rounded up by ICE in the last few weeks in Minneapolis as the city’s lawmakers and activists continue impeding the agency’s critical operations. Mexican national Hernan Cortes-Valencia, with a removal order that dates back to 2016, and convictions for sexual assault against a child and four DUIs. A Laos illegal immigrant, Sriudorn Phaivan, ordered deported in 2018 with convictions for strongarm sodomy of a boy, strongarm sodomy of a girl, aggravated sex, nine counts of larceny, four counts of fraud, vehicle theft, two counts of drug possession, obstructing justice, possession of stolen property, receiving stolen property, burglary and check forgery. Another Laos national, Ge Yang, deported from the U.S. in 2012, who benefitted from Minnesota’s sanctuary protections, with convictions for strongarm rape, aggravated assault, domestic violence and other sex offenses. Mexican Aldrin Guerrero Munoz, removed back in 2015, with homicide and assault convictions and Gilberto Salguero Landaverde of El Salvador, who has been convicted of three counts of homicide and was ordered deported over the summer. This is just a snippet as the list of serious offenders apprehended in Minnesota recently as the list is extensive and readily available with mug shots on the DHS website.

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