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Fox News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Fetterman cheers ICE arrests of illegal alien child sex offenders, Luna calls for death penalty
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., expressed support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's apprehension of illegal alien child sex offenders, while Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., advocated for the individuals to face the death penalty. ICE noted in a Monday press release that it "arrested 214 illegal aliens for immigration offenses in the Houston area in the past six months who have been charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor." "I don't support or agree with all of ICE's tactics or actions. I do fully support moves like these. This makes our nation more secure and all our children safer," Fetterman said in a post on X. Responding to the news about the ICE arrests, Luna said in a post on X, "Skip deportation. Go directly to the death penalty. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200." According to the ICE press release, one of the individuals arrested was "Jose Guadalupe Meza, a 40-year-old, four-time deported criminal alien from Mexico who was arrested June 24 and has been convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child. ICE removed Guadalupe Meza to Mexico June 25." The news comes amid the Trump administration's crackdown on border and immigration enforcement. Fetterman has previously expressed support for ICE's work, describing any calls for the abolition of the agency as "inappropriate" as well as "outrageous." "Bringing together the resources and expertise of the entire federal law enforcement community to confront the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that we saw over the past four years has resulted in the arrest and removal of historic numbers of violent criminal aliens, transnational gang members and child sex offenders," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston acting field office director Paul McBride noted, according to the press release.
Fox News
4 days ago
- Fox News
ICE arrests over 200 illegal alien child sex offenders in Houston area in past 6 months
More than 200 child sex offenders have been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Houston area in the last six months. The 214 illegal immigrants arrested for immigration offenses by ICE "have been charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor," according to a media release. The number tops the 211 arrested "during the entire 2024 fiscal year." ICE says the rise in arrests "is a direct result of a whole-of-government approach implemented under the current administration that led to the establishment of multiagency targeting teams in each area of responsibility." "Bringing together the resources and expertise of the entire federal law enforcement community to confront the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that we saw over the past four years has resulted in the arrest and removal of historic numbers of violent criminal aliens, transnational gang members and child sex offenders," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston acting Field Office Director Paul McBride said in a statement. Of the 214, ICE highlighted five arrests of individuals who had been previously deported: Jorge Zebra, 48, was arrested on March 21. The Mexican national "has been convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor and sexual indecency with a minor," ICE said. He was sent back to Mexico on March 24. Jesus Gutierrez Mireles, 67, was arrested on March 28. The Mexican national "has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and driving while intoxicated," ICE said. Mireles has been deported three times and was sent back to Mexico from the U.S. on April 4. Jose Guadalupe Meza, 40, was arrested on June 24 and "has been convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child," ICE said. He has been deported four times, and was sent back to Mexico on June 25. Sergio Rolando Galvan Guerrero, 45, was arrested on July 12 "and has been convicted of DWI and aggravated sexual assault of a child," ICE said. He has been deported three times, and sent back to Mexico on July 14. Manuel Antonio Castro-Juarez, 37, was arrested on July 18 "and has been convicted of sexual assault of a minor and twice for illegal reentry," ICE said. He has been deported twice before and "remains in ICE custody pending his third removal to El Salvador." "While we still have a long way to go to truly get this crisis under control, the strides we have made in just six months to make our local communities safer are substantial, and our officers continue to work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the worst criminal aliens out of Southeast Texas to return our communities to places we can all enjoy," McBride said.
News.com.au
03-07-2025
- News.com.au
Why men should not work in childcare
I'm sympathetic to the good men in childcare. I really am. I've seen their work first hand. But they might need to be collateral damage here. Aussie children — those so small they can't yet talk, let alone advocate for themselves — are being put at risk because we're too afraid to offend some men. I am aware that this is an emotional subject. I don't know another parent who read the news this week about the alleged abuse of children in Melbourne childcare centres and didn't have that sinking feeling in their stomach. The details, still emerging, are truly sickening. But I am not making an emotional argument. Mine is borne out in facts. Most people don't know that between 2 and 4 per cent of those who choose childcare as their occupation in Australia are men. Many also would not know that the staggeringly overwhelming majority of sexual offences perpetrated against children in non-school educational premises is carried out by men. In NSW, for example, there were 142 horrific, unthinkable acts against our most vulnerable children in the year to March 2025. Do you know how many of those offenders were not men? Just two. It makes sense given what we know about men being responsible for the vast majority of sexual offences carried out against children. A study published by the Australian Institute of Criminology shows that men account for 98.3 per cent of child sex offenders in this country. 'Men sexually abuse children far more frequently than do women and some child sex offenders go to great lengths to have access to large numbers of children to abuse and in some cases even choose their employment based on this,' the study reads. 'It is clear that although women have far more opportunities than men to abuse children — as primary carers of children in the home and in child-centred occupations such as childcare and teaching — these opportunities are rarely acted on.' Offences against children are the most heinous. But offenders are not all equal. In childcare settings, particularly under the broken system that exists in Australia, offenders have the opportunity to abuse far greater numbers of children than in the home. The AIC study showed that 'men who molested out of home female children averaged 20 victims' and 'men who molested out of home male children were even more active . . . averaging 150 victims each'. Joshua Brown, 26, worked across 20 childcare centres around Melbourne before he was charged with more than 70 offences. The Point Cook man was arrested and charged after police allegedly discovered child abuse material. He is accused of sexual penetration of a child under 12, sex assault of a child under 16 and production of child abuse material. Eight alleged victims were from the Creative Gardens Early Learning Centre in Point Cook where he worked between 2022 and 2023. He remains before the courts, and has not entered any pleas. As reported exclusively on Wednesday, he is also accused of contaminating the food of the children in his care with 'bodily fluids'. He will appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on September 15. The alleged crimes have sent a shockwave across the country and forced Victoria to undertake an urgent review of the childcare sector. Premier Jacinta Allan said Victoria would build its own register for childcare workers and institute a ban on childcare workers bringing phones to work from September 26. If a provider does not sign up, they face fines of up to $50,000. It is cold comfort for the horrified families of 1200 children who were told their tiny children should be tested for sexually transmitted diseases in the wake of Brown's arrest. The current checks and balances — including the the Working with Children Check — have proven ineffective in the past. A study in the Journal of Sexual Aggression in 2004 found that 15 per cent of professional perpetrators of sexual abuse against children — that is those who carried out the offending at work — 'chose their occupation (eg clergy, teaching, childcare) exclusively so they could sexually abuse children'. There are good men in childcare. But we cannot ignore the reality that evil men will target the profession as long as they are allowed to slip through the cracks.
