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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is detailing cases in which anti-ICE agitators actively helped criminal illegal immigrants evade federal arrest, including suspects accused of child rape, domestic abuse and gang-related violence.
The cases point to a growing pattern of organized interference with federal immigration enforcement during recent ICE operations.
“These are the monsters that agitators and sanctuary politicians are protecting,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. “We remind the public that obstructing law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime.”
FROM PROTEST TO FELONY: THE LINES MINNESOTA ANTI-ICE AGITATORS MAY BE CROSSING
Protesters, using whistles to alert neighborhoods to ICE activity, face off with Minneapolis police officers in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, on Jan. 24, 2026. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)
According to DHS, members of the anti-ICE Colorado Rapid Response Network, alerted Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a convicted child rapist, of ICE’s presence on June 20, 2025. A Facebook post by the anti-ICE group, accused by DHS of facilitating Leon-Deras’ evasion on June 20, indicates members affiliated with the anti-ICE group used a bullhorn that day to alert potential targets of ICE. The post suggested that police left without serving any warrants, while noting that agents returned the following days as well.
Per DHS, federal agents finally arrested Leon-Deras on June 27, and he was issued a final order of removal on Oct. 30 amid the Trump administration’s ongoing operations in Colorado.
In a separate situation in Minneapolis, an apartment manager allegedly prevented federal immigration agents from entering a building where a criminal foreign national from Somalia, convicted of violent sex crimes and previously arrested for a high-level assault, was located.
DHS accused the apartment manager of actively protecting a sex offender,…
