The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) touted Tuesday that it has taken nearly 8,000 criminal illegal immigrant gang members off the streets since President Trump took office – figures released after an alleged MS-13 “monster” was sentenced to more than five decades behind bars for his role in two New York City murders.
“DHS has arrested more than 7,800 criminal illegal alien gang members from American communities since President Trump took office,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told The Post.
Bis highlighted the case of Ramiro Gutierrez, who was sentenced on March 11, in defending Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
“This MS-13 gang member participated in two brutal murders while illegally in our country,” the DHS spokeswoman said. “This monster is now facing 55 years in prison for these barbaric murders.”
Gutierrez served as the getaway driver and helped plan the Nov. 4, 2018, murder Victor Alvarenga near his home in Flushing, Queens, according to prosecutors.
Three months later, Gutierrez and three co-defendants followed alleged rival gangmember Abel Mosso onto the 7 train at the Main Street station in Flushing, where Mosso was assaulted inside a subway car, dragged out onto the platform at the 90th Street station in Jackson Heights and then shot multiple times by Gutierrez with his own firearm, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said.
Gutierrez was arrested shortly after the subway slaying. He pleaded guilty last year.
He entered the US illegally at an “unknown place and time,” according to DHS, which noted the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit worked “in close coordination with federal and local law enforcement partners” and “played a pivotal role in the investigation, arrest, and successful prosecution of Gutierrez.”
“MS-13 is one of the most barbaric criminal gangs in the world,” Bis said. “They rape, maim, and murder for sport.
“President Trump is dismantling transnational criminal gangs.”
