US EditionMan ICE Calls 'MS-13 Kingpin’ Admits Illegally Entering US. Caught During Traffic Stop.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, JUL 14 – Melvin Alejandro Varela Perez, linked to multiple homicides and terrorism, was paroled into the U.S. in 2023 despite criminal charges, highlighting alleged border vetting failures, ICE said.
- ICE apprehended 50-year-old Melvin Varela Perez, who is identified as a leading MS-13 figure and ranks among El Salvador’s 100 most wanted fugitives, last Wednesday in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
- Perez crossed into the U.S. without authorization in 2016 and disclosed his involvement with a gang during an interview with U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Sarita, Texas checkpoint shortly after crossing from Mexico.
- The Nebraska Information Analysis Center gathered intelligence on an individual identified as a criminal undocumented immigrant in Omaha and communicated this information to Homeland Security to support enforcement efforts.
- Perez faces Salvadoran charges of aggravated homicide involving five victims, deprivation of liberty, and terrorist organization affiliation, and ICE is coordinating his deportation while he is held in Iowa.
- Perez’s arrest sparked renewed condemnation from former Border Czar Tom Homan, who argued that inadequate vetting processes under the previous administration permitted dangerous offenders to illegally gain entry and live within the United States.
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Man ICE calls ‘MS-13 kingpin’ admits illegally entering US. Caught during traffic stop.
Court documents reveal that one of the arrested MS-13 gang members was previously convicted of entering the country illegally and admitted to being an MS-13 gang member in 2016.
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Man ICE calls 'MS-13 kingpin’ admits illegally entering US. Caught during traffic stop.
Court documents reveal that one of the arrested MS-13 gang members was previously convicted of entering the country illegally and admitted to being an MS-13 gang member in 2016.
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