An illegal immigrant with multiple previous convictions, including one for raping a young child, was arrested by Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday. Arrested by agent. officials and reports said.
Vargas Mendoza, a 33-year-old Mexican national, was arrested near the southern border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Yuma station agents, Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem announced Thursday..
According to Clem, Mendoza's previous convictions also included possession of a controlled lethal substance, possession of marijuana for sale, and willful cruelty to children. It was
Fox News reported that Mendoza was in the United States illegally.
No other information about his arrest was immediately available.
CBP statisticsshow that his CBP agent has had a criminal record so far this year amid a surge in border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. arrested 9,381 immigrants.
So far this year he has reported that more than 2 million migrants have crossed the US border and an estimated 500,000 more have escaped his CBP agents, Fox News reported.
Just last month, four sex offenders — including a rapist and a man convicted of sex crimes against children — were arrested across Texas' southern border.
Among those arrested was a Guatemalan national who was forcibly charged with lewd conduct against a child under the age of 14. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Texas investigators also arrested a Salvadoran citizen convicted of lewd exposure with a child in Houston in 2016 and were sentenced to 10 years' probation.
