Federal authorities nabbed more than 900 illegal migrants Wednesday as a part of President Trump’s mass deportation offensive — including 22 Tren de Aragua gangbangers and a convicted child rapist, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Homeland Security agents in Washington, DC, cuffed Luis Felipe Duran-Hernandez, a dangerous Honduran migrant who had previously been convicted of the rape of a minor under the age of 13 and for possessing a firearm as a felon.
Duran-Hernandez had already been deported from the US four times, sources told The Post, but continued to sneak back over the besieged southern border.
It is unclear when the brute was convicted in the disturbing attack on the child and what his sentence was. He is now in the custody of the US Marshals Service with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer.
The feds also collared almost two dozen members of Tren de Aragua, the vicious Venezuelan prison gang that has wreaked havoc across the country.
Homeland Security agents nabbed one of the gangbangers who had engaged in “alleged criminal gang activity” in sanctuary city Chicago. The unidentified migrant already possessed a deportation order, according to sources.
In total, Wednesday’s operations yielded 962 illegal migrant arrests, including 20 more gang members outside of Tren de Aragua.
“President Trump promised to make America safe. And this is the first wave of those promises, where ICE agents are going out and making arrests of criminal illegal aliens that have caused chaos and destruction in this country,” said John Fabbricatore, the former chief of ICE’s Denver office.
In Ventura, California, ICE and US Marshals officers arrested a suspected member of the Mexican criminal syndicate “Guerreros Unidos” who had been deported eight times before and has two DUI convictions.
The identity of the migrant outlaw was not revealed.
In addition to the mass arrests, federal authorities deported 794 illegal migrants Wednesday and lodged 860 detainers with local authorities, requesting the transfer of illegal migrant criminals into ICE custody for deportation.
Roughly 5,850 feds have been mobilized to assist in President Trump’s crackdown that has so far resulted in the arrests of nearly 6,500 illegal migrants since the operation kicked off.
ICE sources told The Post that the tough-on-immigration Republican president has imposed a daily quota of at least 75 arrests from each of the agency’s 25 offices across the country.
The White House had also asked that agents work seven days a week.
Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan has said the immigration raids are focused on the estimated 700,000 “worst of the worst” illegal migrant criminals roaming the country.
The feds have already nabbed hundreds of them, including 50 other Tren de Aragua gangbangers who were partying at a makeshift nightclub in Denver, Colorado, Sunday.
Some of the hard-partying illegal migrants were living in the nearby suburb of Aurora, which has been terrorized by the Venezuelan prison gang, and had previous scuffles with cops there, federal law enforcement sources said.
A Tren de Aragua member Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, was also busted in New York City earlier this week after he fled Aurora, where he was seen in surveillance video among the heavily armed suspects forcing their way into an apartment in the Denver suburb in August.
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