Facts Over Feelings: Documented Violent Crime and Illegal Immigration

In recent years, federal enforcement officials and local law enforcement have identified and charged several individuals living in the U.S. without legal status who were accused or convicted of serious violent crimes. The following are documented cases that have been reported by Fox News Digital and law enforcement sources. These are individual criminal cases, not a comment on immigration status generally, and each person named has been charged or convicted in a court of law.

1. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez

• Convicted of the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother who was killed while jogging in Maryland. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and related charges.

  
  

2. Franklin Jose Peña Ramos

• Charged, along with another suspect, in the rape and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas. Prosecutors also allege a prior sexual assault in Costa Rica involving an American woman.

  
  

3. Johan Jose Rangel Martinez

• Co-defendant with Peña Ramos in the Jocelyn Nungaray case, facing charges related to the rape and murder of the child.

  
  

4. Gildardo Amandor-Martinez

• Arrested in Kentucky on charges including murder, first-degree assault, and attempted rape, after authorities say he attacked a woman and her teenage son.

  
  

5. Hector David Sagastume Rivas

• A Honduran immigrant charged in Georgia with capital murder, rape, aggravated sexual battery and related counts in the killing of a mother of five.

  
  

6. Ronald Joseph

• Pleaded guilty to aggravated rape of his own teenage daughter in a Massachusetts shelter, resulting in the child’s pregnancy.

  
  

7. Ge Yang

• Convicted of strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation, according to ICE records of criminal illegal immigrants.

  
  

8. Pao Choua Xiong

• Convicted of rape and child fondling, and subject to a long-standing deportation order.

  
  

9. Kou Lor

• Convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault, also under a deportation order.

  
  

10. Hernan Cortes-Valencia

• Convicted of sexual assault of a child and multiple DUIs.

  

11. Gilberto Salguero Landaverde

• Convicted of three counts of homicide, according to ICE reporting.

  
  

12. Gabriel Figueroa Gama

• Convicted of homicide and previously deported before re-entry.

  
  

13. Mongong Kual Maniang Deng

• Convicted of attempted homicide, weapon possession, and DUI.

  
  

14. Aler Gomez Lucas

• Convicted of negligent homicide with a vehicle and DUI.

  
  

15. Shwe Htoo

• Convicted of negligent homicide with a weapon.

  
  

16. Miguel Angel Salmeron-Granados

• Convicted of first-degree sexual abuse involving contact with a child under 11.

  
  

17. Guadalupe Cuevas-Sotelo

• Criminal history that includes sexual abuse of a child and attempted rape.

  
  

Context Around These Cases

• Many of these individuals were subject to deportation orders or removal proceedings at the time of arrest or conviction.

  
  

• Law enforcement agencies such as ICE and DHS describe these cases as part of broader efforts to remove people in the U.S. illegally who have been convicted of violent crimes.