Illegal who conspired to bludgeon teen to death with baseball bat among latest ICE roundups

An illegal alien convicted of a conspiracy to murder a teen using a baseball bat is among some of the “worst of the worst" criminal illegals arrested by ICE recently, the agency says.

Shown here are five of those whom ICE considers the "worst of the worst" illegal aliens arrested in July 2025. Top row left to right: Bou Khathavong, Santiago Geovany Garcia-Rosales, Hector Bonaparte-Contreras. Bottom left to right: Julio Armando Gomez-Fernandez and Manuel Loja.  (ICE)

ICE also arrested Hector Bonaparte-Contreras, a 42-year-old criminal illegal alien from from Mexico, on July 24. Bonaparte-Contreras was convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault on a child less than 13 years old in Chicago. 

Another alien, Julio Armando Gomez-Fernandez, was arrested by ICE on July 27 in Dallas. Also an illegal from Mexico, Gomez-Fernandez was previously convicted in Colorado of meth possession with intent to distribute as well as unlawful re-entry.

Manuel Loja, a criminal alien and sex offender from Ecuador, was arrested by ICE Newark on July 24. Loja has been convicted of cruelty and neglect of children in New Jersey.

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DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blamed Biden-era policies for allowing dangerous criminal aliens into the U.S., praising renewed ICE enforcement under Trump. (Getty Images)

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"President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to arrest these criminal illegal aliens," said McLaughlin, adding, "From pedophiles to drug traffickers, ICE is prioritizing arresting the worst of the worst. We will not allow criminal illegals to terrorize American communities." 

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

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