Two lawmakers in both chambers and from opposing parties reacted to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrests of illegal alien child sex offenders.
While Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) supported ICE in making “all our children safer,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) wants the perpetrators to face the death penalty, Fox News reported.
ICE announced Monday it “arrested 214 illegal aliens for immigration offenses in the Houston area in the past six months who have been charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor.”
Both lawmakers took to social after the announcement.
“I don’t support or agree with all of ICE’s tactics or actions. I do fully support moves like these. This makes our nation more secure and all our children safer,” Fetterman said on X.
Luna wrote about the death penalty on X.
“Skip deportation. Go directly to the death penalty. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200,” she posted.
In its press release, ICE wrote about one individual who was arrested.
“Jose Guadalupe Meza, a 40-year-old, four-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested June 24 and has been convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Guadalupe Meza to Mexico June 25,” per the release.
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to crack down on border and immigration enforcement.
“Bringing together the resources and expertise of the entire federal law enforcement community to confront the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that we saw over the past four years has resulted in the arrest and removal of historic numbers of violent criminal aliens, transnational gang members and child sex offenders,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston acting field office director Paul McBride said, per the release.
