5,000 More Criminal Illegal Immigrants Added to DHS ‘Worst of the Worst’ Website

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added another 5,000 people to its “Worst of the Worst” website, a portal that indexes profiles of alleged criminal illegal immigrants who have been arrested across the United States.

The latest update brings the total number of people featured on the website to more than 35,000, DHS said in a June 1 statement.

“The criminal histories of those arrested include homicide, sex offenses against children, driving under the influence, aggravated assault, hit and run, drug possession, and arson,” the department said.

Additions include a Honduran illegal immigrant with a criminal history of homicide, a Cuban national with a history of sex offense against a child, an illegal immifrant from Guatemala accused of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor, a Vietnamese national with a history of aggravated assault with a weapon, and an illegal immigrant from El Salvador accused of drug possession.

Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary at the DHS’s Office of Public Affairs, said, “If you see an ICE law enforcement officer, thank them for removing these thugs from your neighborhoods.”

The arrests are part of the Trump administration’s wider push to deport illegal immigrants from the United States and to deter further unlawful entry.

In a Jan. 20 statement, DHS said it had removed more than 670,000 illegal immigrants, including pedophiles, rapists, murderers, terrorists, and gang members, from American communities in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. In addition, around 2 million people have self-deported.

“DHS is committed to continuing to remove dangerous illegal aliens from American communities,” former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said at the time. “70 percent of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens who have been convicted or charged with a crime in the U.S. We will not rest until American communities are free of the scourge of illegal alien crime.”

Some groups are challenging measures targeting foreign criminals operating in the United States.

In a June 2 statement, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) said it has submitted a statement to the House Judiciary Committee opposing the Deport Alien Gang Members Act or H.R.175.

Introduced in March last year, the Act makes non-Americans associated with criminal gangs inadmissible into the United States and deportable from the country.

The act also establishes procedures for designating groups as criminal gangs. A foreigner will be deemed inadmissible if certain agencies or officers deem the individual to be linked to a criminal gang.

A criminal gang is defined in the bill as an “ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons that has as 1 of its primary purposes the commission of 1 or more of the offenses described in this paragraph and the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past 5 years, in a continuing series of such offenses, or that has been designated as a criminal gang by the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, as meeting these criteria.”

In its comments to the House Judiciary Committee, AILA said that “vague terms and overly broad drafting” of the bill will lead to immigration agencies targeting people who have no links to gangs or pose no threat to public safety.

AILA alleged that the bill encourages immigration agencies to engage in “racial or other impermissible profiling.”

“As a result of its overbreadth, the bill could wrongly block access to all forms of immigration status, including asylum, relief under the Convention Against Torture, and other humanitarian protection for people who legitimately qualify and have no criminal history,” AILA said.

“Congress must ensure the American public is safe and protected. However, H.R.175 is not the answer. It will not advance the enforcement of immigration law and will lead to more dangerous practices that violate due process and cause grave harm to communities.”

The FBI is dismantling violent gangs in the United States at a “historic rate,” the agency’s director, Kash Patel, said in a May 22 post on X.

A video shared with the post stated that 1,800 localized street gangs were eliminated last year, 45,500 violent thugs have been arrested, violent crime arrests are up by 184 percent, and more than 175 Safe Streets Task Forces are operating nationwide.