The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of the United States published a strong message this Saturday on its official X account, stating that undocumented immigrants have no place in the country and announced the deportation of individuals with serious criminal records.
"Illegal immigrants do not belong to our nation, and we are deporting them. Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE, these murderers, drunk drivers, sexual offenders, and gun traffickers have been deported," stated the DHS in the post.
The article detailed two specific cases. Ramón Gregorio Herrera-Ruiz, a Guatemalan citizen deported on August 4, has convictions for homicide, three charges of driving under the influence, and driving without a license, as well as arrests for obstructing the police.
The second case is that of Jorge Martínez-Guerrero, a Mexican citizen also deported on August 4, with convictions for involuntary manslaughter and illegal reentry into the United States.
The statement is part of the "Make America Safe Again" campaign that the DHS, led by Secretary Kristi Noem, has maintained since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
The strategy includes weekly publications with names, photographs, and details of the crimes committed by deportees, as well as the public platform WOW.DHS.gov, which now has over 40,000 profiles of irregular immigrants with criminal backgrounds.
Two days earlier, on August 13, the DHS had published a statement on deportations of criminals that included individuals convicted of voluntary manslaughter, attempted murder, and assault, under the slogan "deporting illegal immigrants saves lives."
Global figures support the scale of the operation. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported 356,389 people in the fiscal year 2026 through the end of July, nearing the record high of 438,421 deportations recorded in 2013.
60% of those currently in ICE detention have criminal records.
In June, ICE recorded its highest number of arrests since the beginning of the second Trump administration: 39,563 detentions solely by ICE, and 43,138 in combination with the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) office.
Since January 2025, the administration has carried out approximately 3,000 deportation flights and expelled nearly 900,000 immigrants.
In the case of Cubans, the situation is especially critical: more than 42,000 have final deportation orders pending in the United States, and at least 29,000 have criminal records.
Only in June 2026, more than 1,600 Cubans received new deportation orders.
ICE aims to deport one million people during the current fiscal year and the next, more than double the approximately 442,000 deportations from the previous period.
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