Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal immigrant who was accused of killing 23 people in Peru.
The noncitizen, 38-year-old Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, was arrested 145 miles northwest of New York City.
Torres-Navarro, the leader of the “Los Killers” gang, entered the United States on May 16, according to the Associated Press.
Col. Franco Moreno, head of Peru’s High Complexity Crime Investigations Division, told the outlet that the illegal immigrant is a “highly dangerous criminal who believed he was untouchable and responsible for 23 murders, including other gang leaders who ended up dead along with their families, all in order to increase his criminal leadership.”
Thomas Brophy, the director of enforcement removal operations for ICE’s Buffalo field office, similarly said that Torres-Navarro posed a “significant threat to our communities, and we won’t allow New York to be a safe haven for dangerous noncitizens.”
“It should alarm every American that a Peruvian gang leader, who has murdered 23 people, crossed our border and was released into the country,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote on X. “The Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policies are terrorizing our communities.”
Last week, ICE arrested 50 illegal immigrants with felony charges.
Several of those taken into custody included a 43-year-old who had been convicted of child sex abuse, a 38-year-old who had sexually assaulted a child, a 51-year-old who committed first-degree murder, and a 36-year-old who possessed a fraud document, indecent exposure, carrying a pistol without a license, and a 30-year-old who committed aggravated battery.