JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On daily basis, federal regulation enforcement officers make arrests and deport people who’re within the U.S. illegally.
A few of these arrested are going through costs for intercourse crimes or have not too long ago been convicted of such offenses, which factors to an even bigger challenge regarding information that exhibits the variety of unlawful immigrants convicted of intercourse crimes.
Nassau County Sheriff Invoice Leeper introduced the arrest of a person who was within the nation illegally and is accused of utilizing the web to lure a 14-year-old woman for intercourse.
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Throughout an operation that led to multiple arrests of individuals accused of attempting to satisfy with teenagers for intercourse, one of many arrested suspects was 29-year-old Javier Eduardo Melindez-Serrano from Honduras.
Leeper acknowledged, “He was on the app known as Skip the Video games and communicated with what he thought was a 14-year-old. He despatched nude images of himself and mentioned he would pay her $150 for intercourse. Oh, by the way in which, he was within the nation illegally.”
Based on information from U.S. Customs and Border Safety paperwork, felony convictions of unlawful immigrants throughout the U.S. detailing particular crimes from 2017 to February of this yr.
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In 2017, there have been 137 intercourse crime convictions. The next two years noticed the quantity drop under 100. In 2020, the quantity rose to 156, and in 2021, convictions spiked to 488.
In 2022, the quantity dropped to 365, however the next two years noticed convictions stay above 200. As of February 2025, 68 unlawful immigrants have been convicted of intercourse crimes.
Not too long ago, ICE released arrest photos of unlawful immigrants going through sexual assault costs or not too long ago convicted of intercourse crimes. Most of those people come from Mexico and Central America, with others from Central Africa and West Asia. Those that commit violent intercourse crimes could discover themselves deported to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) jail in Venezuela.
In current weeks, tons of of people deemed violent offenders have been deported to that facility.
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