{"id":41869,"date":"2025-11-09T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41869\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:09:30","slug":"twice-deported-illegal-immigrant-pedo-severely-injures-ice-officer-during-houston-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41869\/","title":{"rendered":"Twice-deported illegal immigrant pedo severely injures ICE officer during Houston arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While resisting arrest, a pedophile<\/a>, twice-removed\u00a0illegal immigrant in Houston,<\/a> assaulted an ICE officer, resulting in a severe laceration and burns on his face, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

DHS said that during an operation on Monday in Houston, a Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez \u201cbrutally beat\u201d an ICE officer with a metal coffee cup, resulting in the injuries.<\/p>\n

The agency said the officer suffered<\/a> burns to the side of his face and a severe laceration to his mouth, resulting in 13 stitches.<\/p>\n

This comes as\u00a0Homeland Security<\/a>\u00a0law enforcement officers are facing a 1,000% increase in assaults in the line of duty, according to the agency.<\/p>\n

According to DHS, Perez Rodriguez first entered the U.S. at an unknown date and location without inspection over 15 years ago. An immigration judge issued a removal order against Perez Rodriguez on June 11, 2013, and he was removed that same month. However, he re-entered the country illegally at an unknown time and was again removed by ICE on Feb. 24, 2020.<\/p>\n

Besides repeat illegal re-entry, which is a felony, DHS said that Perez Rodriguez has a criminal record that includes a conviction for a sexual assault of a child under 17 years old, child fondling and multiple DUIs.<\/p>\n

Mugshot of Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez. DHS<\/p>\n

The ICE officer who was assaulted by Rodriguez had a severe laceration and burns on his face. DHS<\/p>\n

The agency said he is now in ICE custody and \u201ccan no longer pose a threat to Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the incident, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that \u201cThis repeated criminal illegal alien is about to find out the hard way that there\u2019s a new sheriff in town\u2014and under President Trump and Secretary Noem, anyone who lays a hand on our ICE officers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS said that during an operation on Monday in Houston, a Salvadoran illegal immigrant named Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez \u201cbrutally beat\u201d an ICE officer with a metal coffee cup, resulting in the injuries. ICE<\/p>\n

She decried the rise in assaults against federal law enforcement, saying, \u201cOur brave ICE officers are facing record-high assaults\u201d as \u201cthey lock up pedophiles and other depraved criminals to keep American families safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This comes shortly after ICE and other federal and Texas officials carried out a\u00a0massive 10-day operation in Houston\u00a0that resulted in over 1,500 arrests, including of aggravated felons, gang members, sexual predators, a murderer and others.<\/p>\n

This comes shortly after ICE and other federal and Texas officials carried out a\u00a0massive 10-day operation in Houston\u00a0that resulted in over 1,500 arrests. ICE<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday statement, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Office Director Bret Bradford announced that \u201cdespite the conditions becoming increasingly dangerous for our officers as a result of the spread of violent political rhetoric and intentionally false information,\u201d agents arrested 1,505 illegal aliens in a southeast Texas operation that ran Oct. 22-31.<\/p>\n

Bradford said the\u00a0arrests of gang members, child predators\u00a0<\/a>and other violent criminals \u201cprevented countless Houstonians from having to suffer from the nightmares and PTSD that come with being a victim of violent crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency said the officer suffered burns to the side of his face and a severe laceration to his mouth, resulting in 13 stitches. DHS<\/p>\n

In total, the October operation resulted in the arrests of 17 documented gang members, 40 aggravated felons, one convicted murderer and 13 sexual predators, according to the ICE statement. Offenses committed by those arrested included 115 aggravated assaults, 142 DWIs, 55 drug offenses and 31 weapons offenses. The agency also said that 255 of those arrested had been\u00a0previously deported from the U.S.\u00a0at least once.<\/p>\n

Nearly one-third of those arrested have been ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge, according to ICE.<\/p>\n

ICE has carried out several large-scale enforcement operations in the Houston area this year, including one in August that resulted in 822 arrests and another in February and March that led to 543 arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While resisting arrest, a pedophile, twice-removed\u00a0illegal immigrant in Houston, assaulted an ICE officer, resulting in a severe laceration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4028,2458,4092,16609,56,58,57,1829,7770,25260,25261,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-41869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","11":"tag-deportation","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-ice","16":"tag-illegal-immigrants","17":"tag-pedophiles","18":"tag-sexual-predators","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}