Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials arrested an illegal alien gang leader in New York on Wednesday who is accused of murdering 23 people in Peru.
ICE, which announced the arrest Thursday evening, said that 38-year-old Gianfranco Torres-Navarro was arrested in Endicott, about a 150 miles northwest of New York City.
Torres-Navarro was released into the U.S. by the Biden-Harris administration on May 16 at the Texas-Mexico border after illegally entering the country, the AP reported.
“It should alarm every American that a Peruvian gang leader, who has murdered 23 people, crossed our border and was released into the country,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “The Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policies are terrorizing our communities.”
Peru confirmed to the AP that it sought international help tracking down and capturing Torres-Navarro on July 3….
