A homeless illegal alien, Jose Leonardo Marquez-Marquez, 23, was arrested by police last week on US Capitol grounds while carrying a machete and a butcher knife. Initially charged with carrying a dangerous weapon and possessing a prohibited weapon, the next day he was arrested by ICE on immigration charges and transferred to the custody of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations for Washington, DC, where he remains.
Marquez had been encountered by the Border Patrol on August 21, 2022, after illegally crossing the border near El Paso. On October 5, 2023 (or 2022, accounts differ), he checked in with DC deportation officers, when he was finally issued an official immigration court summons. That summons should have been issued when he was initially encountered, but the CBP has been essentially waving illegals through due to the overwhelming numbers of migrants crossing (combined with a lack of real incentive on the part of the Biden administration).
Marquez is said now to be facing “removal procedures.”
No one knows how many crimes in the U.S. are being committed by illegal aliens, but the State of Texas keeps a database for criminal illegals in that state. That database shows that between June 1, 2011, and November 30, 2023, over 294,000 illegals were booked into Texas jails, charged with more than 504,000 criminal offenses. Those offenses included arrests for “937 homicide charges; 63,357 assault charges; 9,176 burglary charges; 59,517 drug charges; 1122 kidnapping charges; 25,049 theft charges; 39,339 obstructing police charges; 2,870 robbery charges; 6,365 sexual assault charges; 7,367 sexual offense charges; and 6,112 weapon charges.” In addition, a 2021 DOJ report revealed that fully 64 percent of all federal arrests in 2018 involved aliens.
For more, see the Washington Times.