Grand Canyon Times

More than 400 illegal aliens were arrested in June 2024 and charged with serious crimes including murder, rape, sex crimes against children, human trafficking, and domestic violence. Over a dozen of them were apprehended in Arizona for crimes including murder and sexual abuse

John R. Modlin, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol's (USBP) Tucson Sector, posted on X that Edy Vasquez-Rabanales, a Guatamalan national, was arrested on June 4 by Three Points Station agents. A former Guatamalan police officer, Vasquez-Rabanales had an INTERPOL warrant out of Guatamala for kidnapping and for murdering a Canadian citizen.

On June 4, Modlin revealed that Mexican national Jose Castro-Ramirez was arrested by USBP agents west of Nogales. According to Modlin, Castro-Ramirez "has multiple felony convictions including rape in the first-degree w/ a weapon, burglary, and possession w/ intent to distribute marijuana." 

On June 6, Modlin posted that Mexican national Juventino Torres-Garcia was arrested by Three Points Station agents after crossing the border illegally. Modlin revealed that Torres-Garcia is a convicted sex offender who had been charged with felony indecency with a child. 

Agents from the USBP and Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested an illegal immigrant on June 8 who had previously been deported. The illegal immigrant had an extraditable warrant out of New Jersey for sexual assault, and he was riding in a stolen vehicle being driven by a U.S. citizen who crashed during pursuit by DPS. Following the incident, the citizen driver and two migrants were arrested.

Modlin also reported about an incident on June 20 when a permanent resident from Mexico was arrested for human smuggling: "USBP agents stopped a vehicle on I-10 near Marana, AZ, and found a hidden smuggled migrant. Agents also seized a firearm, ammunition, personal use marijuana, and paraphernalia."

As Arizona's Family reported, on June 21, illegal alien Emmanuel Garcia Guzman was arrested in Glendale in a sting operation. According to Glendale Police, Guzman trafficked Cuban illegal immigrant women for prostitution. Guzman was jailed on a felony count of transportation for the purpose of prostitution. 

In late June, Tucson Sector Agents arrested two Mexican nationals who are convicted felons. Bernardo Martinez-Gallegos was arrested on June 22 and has aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon convictions, and Hilario Ortega-Solorzano, arrested on June 23, had been convicted of felony aggravated abuse of a minor in Utah. According to Modlin, both men "[faced] prosecution for reentry after deportation of an aggravated felon." 

A joint report from the House Committee on Oversight and the House Committee on Homeland Security, there have been over 8 million migrant encounters nationwide under the Biden-Harris administration. 6.7 million of these encounters occured on the southwest border. Additionally, the report noted that there at 1.7 million known gotaways, or illegal immigrants who evaded border patrol and were not vetted in any way by immigration officials. 

According to polling from American Greatness, 59 percent of Arizona voters don't believe that the Biden-Harris administration is doing enough to secure the southern border and stop the flow of illegal aliens. Polling from the same firm in March found that 72 percent of Arizona voters believed that the federal government is "weak" in securing the border, with 52 percent saying the governments' job performance on the border was "very weak."