ICE ramps up arrests of convicted criminals as riots rage in blue city: 'You will not stop us'

The Department of Homeland Security announced that respective convicted criminals who are successful the United States illegally were arrested arsenic portion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations successful Los Angeles connected Monday and Tuesday.

The ICE operations successful Los Angeles triggered protests and riots successful parts of the city, and President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to support the national migration officers portion they continued arrests.

"Murderers, pedophiles, and cause traffickers. These are the types of transgression amerciable aliens that rioters are warring to protect. How overmuch longer volition Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass proceed to prioritize these transgression amerciable aliens implicit their ain citizens?" Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection connected Wednesday. 

CALIFORNIA SHERIFF SAYS NEWSOM ‘ENCOURAGED’ LA RIOTS AS ICE ARRESTS VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIENS

A rioter waves a Mexican nationalist emblem adjacent to a car connected occurrence during a protestation pursuing national migration operations, successful the Compton vicinity of Los Angeles, California connected Jun. 7, 2025 (Getty Images)

"Secretary Noem has a connection to the LA rioters: you volition not halt america oregon dilatory america down. ICE volition proceed to enforce the instrumentality and apprehension transgression amerciable aliens," McLaughlin added.

DHS highlighted 9 arrests – each of whom the bureau says are successful the state illegally.

Mexican nationalist Gerardo Antonio-Palacios had been deported earlier but was antecedently convicted of burglary and homicide. Cambodian nationalist Mab Khleb, 53, was convicted of transporting and possession of a controlled substance, battery, and "lewd enactment with a child," according to DHS.

Laotian Sang Louangprasert was criminally convicted of "lewd oregon lascivious acts with a kid nether 14" and "inflicting corporal injury, spouse oregon cohabitant."

DOZENS OF ANTI-ICE RIOTERS ARRESTED IN LA AS TRUMP SENDS IN NATIONAL GUARD TO QUELL VIOLENCE

President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to support the national migration officers portion they continued arrests successful Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

Mexican nationalist Antonio Benitez-Ugarte was convicted connected cause trafficking charges, and Alberto Morales-Mejia, besides from Mexico, was convicted for amphetamine production.

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Honduran nationalist Carlos Alberto Escobar-Flores was besides arrested, and helium was antecedently convicted of expansive theft. Another Honduran national, Jose Jimenez-Alvarado, was besides arrested aft a anterior condemnation of "two counts of theft." Mexican nationalist Jesus Romero-Retana, 52, had anterior convictions of "threatening transgression with intent to terrorize and battery."

Another Mexican national, Raul Teran-Guillen, was antecedently arrested for "human smuggling and wealth laundering" earlier his ICE apprehension this week.

ICE ARRESTS 'WORST OF THE WORST' ILLEGAL ALIENS IN LOS ANGELES WHILE PROTESTERS ADVOCATE FOR CRIMINALS: DHS

California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks astir the aboriginal UCLA Research Park, California's caller planetary hub for innovation, being built astatine the erstwhile Westside Pavilion successful Los Angeles connected Jan. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

The Trump medication has a extremity of 3,000 ICE arrests regular successful hopes of fulfilling the run way committedness of wide deportations pursuing millions of radical being fto successful during the Biden administration. The ICE efforts person received scrutiny from Democrats successful California and nationwide, and saying that Trump’s determination to deploy the defender and behaviour ICE sweeps is instigating.

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"Donald Trump's authorities isn't protecting our communities. They're traumatizing our communities," Gov. Gavin Newsom said successful a little code connected Tuesday night.

"Angelenos are trying to unrecorded their lives—going to work, caring for their families—while facing the changeless menace of abrupt migration crackdowns," Mayor Karen Bass posted to X connected Wednesday morning. "This fearfulness paralyzes communities. We saw it before: kids excessively frightened to spell to school, families torn isolated without warning. Let’s not unreal this is astir nationalist safety. It’s governmental retribution—plain and simple."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Newsom and Bass for comment, but they did not instantly respond.