{"id":21037,"date":"2026-02-27T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/ice-picks-up-mexican-illegal-convicted-of-murder-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:13:52","slug":"ice-picks-up-mexican-illegal-convicted-of-murder-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/ice-picks-up-mexican-illegal-convicted-of-murder-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Picks Up Mexican Illegal Convicted Of Murder In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien from Mexico on Thursday convicted of first-degree murder in California, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The man, Luis Padilla-Tapia, was also convicted of threatening crime with intent to terrorize and corporal injury to spouse\/cohabitant in Bakersfield. Padilla-Tapia was one of the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d illegal aliens picked up on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security highlighted in a release to The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cYesterday, ICE arrested criminal illegal alien murderers, pedophiles and drug traffickers,\u201d said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. \u201cThese are the types of thugs our officers are arresting and removing from American neighborhoods. While sanctuary politicians demonize ICE law enforcement, our officers continue to risk their lives to arrest public safety threats. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, we are putting the safety of American citizens FIRST.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">According to DHS, others arrested included:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">-Benjamin Perez-Pena, an illegal alien from Mexico and registered sex offender convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child in Santa Ana, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">-David Cac-Choc, an illegal alien from Guatemala convicted of indecent assault on a person less than 13 years old and endangering the welfare of children in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">-Jhoshua Herbert Quichiz-Sagarvinaga, an illegal alien from Peru convicted of proposed sex act by communication systems with a victim under 15 years old and possession of child pornography in Leesburg, Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">-Francisco Hernandez-Alonso, an illegal alien from Mexico convicted of attempted trafficking in opium or heroin in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1051065\" style=\"width:2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051065\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051065\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-27-Feb-2026-02-36-PM-9209-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto,  (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1051065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perez-Pena\/Quichiz-Sagarvinaga: DHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Anti-ICE protests have continued to rage across the country with leftist organizers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mexican-restaurants-and-hotel-protests-heres-how-anti-ice-protesters-are-spending-their-week?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Eat+First.+Then+Smash+The+State.%E2%80%99+Inside+The+Anti-ICE+Weeklong+Plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">currently staging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> a \u201cweek of action\u201d in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. These protesters have called for amnesty for all illegal aliens and for the abolition of ICE and prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Documents <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/investigations\/a-minnesota-melt-the-ice-week-of-action-includes-a-scheduled-student-walkout-and-sit-in-school-patrols-and-a-training-session-on-sanctuary-schools-facilitated-by-rank-and-file-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">reviewed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> by The Daily Wire show the detailed coordination and planning that goes into a week of anti-law enforcement protests collectively called \u201cBring the Heat! Melt the ICE!\u201d From February 25 to March 1, anti-ICE organizers are demonstrating at the state Capitol, at hotels where federal agents are staying, and hosting training sessions at local churches. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ice-picks-up-mexican-illegal-convicted-of-murder-in-california\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien from Mexico on Thursday convicted of first-degree murder in California, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. The man, Luis Padilla-Tapia, was also convicted of threatening crime with intent to terrorize and corporal injury to spouse\/cohabitant in Bakersfield. Padilla-Tapia was one of the \u201cworst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}