Anti-ICE activists help migrant child rapist escape arrest in Colorado: officials

Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activists successful Denver, Colorado, managed to thwart agents trying to apprehension an amerciable migrant wanted successful Italy for kid rape. 

ICE Colorado said connected Friday their agents were trying to detain Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a criminal alien from El Salvador who was convicted of kid rape successful Italy, erstwhile members of a section anti-ICE radical alerted him to their presence. 

ICE said the group, Colorado Rapid Response, posted connected societal media that ICE was successful the area, allowing him clip to flee. 

Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, right, is wanted for kid rape successful Italy. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images; ICE)

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"During our surveillance of Leon, members of Colorado Rapid Response arrived connected country and alerted him to instrumentality enforcement’s presence, which allowed him to flight arrest," ICE Colorado said. "Groups similar this interfere with ICE’s quality to support communities safe."

ICE shared a Facebook station from the group, written successful English and Spanish, alerting its followers to ICE's beingness successful the country and the benignant of conveyance agents were using. 

ICE has asked the nationalist to study Leon-Deras to national authorities if they spot the migrant but warned the nationalist not to attack him. 

A protester waves the Mexican emblem successful beforehand of a burning Waymo conveyance during an anti-ICE protestation successful downtown Los Angeles, California, connected June 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston antecedently vowed to presumption constabulary officers to artifact ICE agents from carrying retired deportations, and a study showed that the metropolis has spent implicit $356 cardinal successful payer dollars connected services for migrants. A 2017 Denver ordinance limits officials from cooperating with ICE.

Anti-ICE protests and enactment person grown since President Donald Trump returned to bureau and vowed to transportation retired the largest deportation ngo successful U.S. history.

In Portland, Colorado, connected Wednesday, anti-ICE activists tried to artifact the entranceway of an ICE deportation installation successful Portland and past launched fireworks and shined lasers astatine instrumentality enforcement, Department of Homeland Security adjunct caput Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.  

Two weeks ago, a mob of anti-ICE protesters acceptable occurrence to cars successful Los Angeles, damaged spot and threw rocks astatine instrumentality enforcement, forcing Trump to activate the National Guard. 

Federal agents utilized non-lethal munitions to unopen down a ample radical of protesters who tried to artifact instrumentality enforcement vehicles from entering and exiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) installation successful Portland, Oregon, connected Wednesday night. (X/@choeshow/@frontlinesTPUSA)

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The "No Kings" protests crossed the state past week were successful portion fueled by absorption to wide deportations. 

On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that 75% of the amerciable aliens arrested nether the Trump medication person been charged with oregon convicted of a crime.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin contributed to this report.