Minnesota ICE operation continues, netting 10 killers, violent child rapists

I did a little digging. Apparently, these violent criminals were not in custody at the time ICE nabbed them.

If ICE would still to rounding up bad guys people would be much more sympathetic to their mission.

Minnesota ICE operation continues, netting 10 killers, violent child rapists — but lefty pols want agents out

By Chris Nesi, NY Post

Published Jan. 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m. ET

The Trump administration has arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens since kicking off the largest immigration enforcement operation ever deployed in Minneapolis — including monsters convicted of heinous crimes like murder, sodomy, and raping children.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced the latest round-up of what it called “the worst criminal offenders in the world” while blasting local officials for upholding policies that have made the Twin Cities a magnet for vicious predators.

“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are encouraging this behavior with their rhetoric of lawlessness, while their sanctuary policies continue to ensure that the worst of the worst criminal alien offenders flock to their state in a vain attempt to escape justice,” ICE wrote in a statement.

The agency — which sent over 2,000 officers to Minneapolis in the last week alone — also hit out at “violent rioters and agitators” for trying to protect such criminals by “interfering and obstructing” ICE operations.

• Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian national convicted of strongarm sodomy of a boy and strongarm sodomy of a girl, as well as another aggravated sex offense, nine counts of larceny, four counts of fraud and a spate of other burglary, drug and theft offenses;

• Tou Vang, a criminal illegal alien from Laos who has been convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under the age of 13 and procuring a child for prostitution;

• Chong Vue, also from Laos, with convictions for strongarm rape of a 12-year-old girl, kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her and vehicle theft;

• Gabriel Figueroa Gama, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who was previously removed from the US in 2002 and later convicted of homicide, battery, assault and amphetamine possession;

• Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somali national convicted of homicide;

• Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, a criminal illegal alien from Somalia convicted of two counts of negligent manslaughter with a vehicle, two counts of DUI, larceny and damage to property;

• Gilberto Salguero Landaverde, a Salvadoran national and illegal immigrant who has been convicted of homicide three times;

• Mariama Sia Kanu, of Sierra Leone, who has been convicted of two counts of homicide, four DUIs, three counts of larceny and burglary; and

• Thai Lor, a criminal illegal alien from Laos with a final order of removal from June 15, 2009, who has been convicted of two counts of homicide.

“Arresting and deporting these people is absolutely critical to national security. National Democrats are going to get our law enforcement killed if they don’t stop lying about this issue and the people working to keep us safe,” Vice President JD Vance said in a statement Saturday night.

Walz and Frey have been vocal opponents of ICE operations in the state, even when the offenders being rounded up have numerous convictions for horrific, violent crimes.

Frey puffed up his chest and told ICE to “get the f–k out of Minneapolis” in an expletive-filled press conference after protester Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent when she veered her SUV into the path of an officer last week.

Walz has called immigration enforcement efforts in the state “reckless” and has compared ICE agents to the “Gestapo.”

Good, along with many others in her community, received training with a so-called “ICE Watch” group to learn tactics for disrupting agents’ work.

“We need to enforce the law and arrest these bad guys. We’ve already arrested over 1,000 people in [Minnesota] and we’re going to continue to do exactly what Congress has allowed us to do, and what the law allows us to do,” Homan told host Shannon Bream.