The Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty (DHS) says it has in re­cent days de­tained the “worst of the worst” crim­i­nals, in­clud­ing those con­vict­ed of sex­u­al as­sault of a child, as­sault, and hu­man traf­fick­ing.

DHS As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary, Tri­cia McLaugh­lin, said pae­dophiles, vi­o­lent thugs, and hu­man traf­fick­ers have been re­moved from Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties.

McLaugh­lin said the ar­rests in­clud­ed Ja­maicans—Du­ane Alan­do Spence con­vict­ed for ag­gra­vat­ed bat­tery-great bod­i­ly harm in Mi­a­mi and Mar­vin Mc­Gre­gor, con­vict­ed of third-de­gree mur­der, firearms pos­ses­sion, and reck­less­ly en­dan­ger­ing an­oth­er per­son in Philadel­phia Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia; as well as Brett Archer, a Bar­ba­di­an na­tion­al con­vict­ed of as­sault in Brook­lyn, New York.

She said oth­ers ar­rest­ed in­clud­ed Ran­dol­fo Agus­to Di­az-Cabr­era, a Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic na­tion­al con­vict­ed of sec­ond-de­gree sex­u­al con­duct against a child in Kings Coun­ty, New York; Deside­rio Marte Var­gas, an­oth­er Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic na­tion­al, con­vict­ed of at­tempt­ed mur­der and un­law­ful pos­ses­sion of a weapon in Pa­ter­son, New Jer­sey.

Cubans Duniesky Eu­ge­nio Del­ga­do-Gazo, con­vict­ed for ag­gra­vat­ed as­sault in Pen­saco­la, Flori­da and Yus­ney Figueroa Ar­guelles, con­vict­ed of rob­bery with a firearm in Or­lan­do, Flori­da, al­so have been de­tained.

McLaugh­lin said un­der Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Sec­re­tary of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Kristi Noem, the Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) is tar­get­ing and re­mov­ing “the worst of the worst crim­i­nal il­le­gal aliens ter­ror­is­ing Amer­i­can fam­i­lies”.

McLaugh­lin said 70 per cent of ICE ar­rests are of crim­i­nal il­le­gal im­mi­grants with charges or con­vic­tions in the Unit­ed States.

“In 2026, with a 120 per cent in­crease in man­pow­er, ICE is un­leashed to ar­rest even more crim­i­nal il­le­gal aliens and get them out of our coun­try,” she said. —WASH­ING­TON (CMC)