Did Protestors Belie ICE Focus in L.A.?

Tom Holman - White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, in a televised interview Monday morning, 6/9/25, clarified the ICE presence in Los Angeles this weekend:

• "ICE was serving criminal warrants in a serious investigation into money transfers to Mexican cartels as part of an overall conspiracy. 
• ICE was arresting bad people and following up on a criminal investigation into car-theft financing.
• ICE took dangerous people off the street that day. 
• We arrested someone with an armed-robbery conviction; we made L.A. safer." May - June YTD arrests & indictments by the U.S. Dept of Justice Central District, of foreign nationals violating U.S. laws include:

• Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Acting at the Direction of North Korea to Export Firearms, Ammo, and Technology to North Korea | United States Department of Justice
  • June 9th "An illegal alien from China pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departed from the Port of Long Beach, and for committing this crime at the direction of North Korean government officials, who wired him approximately $2 million for his efforts.
    Shenghua Wen, 42, of Ontario, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and one count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
    Wen has been in federal custody since his arrest in December 2024.
    According to his plea agreement, Wen is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China who entered the United States in 2012 on a student visa and remained in the U.S. illegally after his student visa expired in December 2013"

•  British and Chinese Nationals Indicted for Alleged Plot to Silence U.S. Dissident and Smuggle U.S. Military Technology to China | United States Department of Justice
  • May 30th "Federal grand juries in Los Angeles and Milwaukee each have returned indictments charging two foreign nationals, Cui Guanghai, 43, of China, and John Miller, 63, of the United Kingdom and a U.S. lawful permanent resident, with interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit interstate stalking (Los Angeles) and conspiracy, smuggling, and violations of the Arms Export Control Act (Milwaukee), the Justice Department announced today."

• Freight Forwarding Company Executive Arrested on Federal Indictment Alleging Massive Scheme to Avoid Customs Duties Payments | United States Department of Justice
  • May 28th The chief financial officer (CFO) at a Downtown Los Angeles-based shipping company has been arrested on a 22-count federal grand jury indictment charging him and the company’s CEO with using fraudulent documents, shell companies, bribes to public officials, and kickbacks to Mexican drug cartels to smuggle billions of dollars’ worth of goods from the United States into Mexico, repeatedly lying to U.S. customs officials and defrauding Mexico out of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of duties owed, the Justice Department announced today.
    Ralph Olarte, 55, of Glendale, the CFO of Sport LA Inc., was arrested late last night at Los Angeles International Airport. He is expected to make his initial appearance and be arraigned this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles.
    Also charged in the indictment is Humberto Lopez Belmonte, 53, of Mexico City, who was arrested and arraigned on Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court. Lopez pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and a July 21 trial date was scheduled. A federal magistrate judge ordered Lopez released on $100,000 bond. 

• Former Exec at O.C. Company and Illegal Alien Arrested on Federal Complaint Alleging He Embezzled $7 Million from His Employer | United States Department of Justice
  • May 22 A former executive at a Newport Beach company that specializes in the purchase of classic cars – who also happens to be an illegal alien from Mexico – was arrested today on a federal complaint alleging he embezzled approximately $7 million from his employer.
  • "He is charged with wire fraud, a felony that carries a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. 
  • A law enforcement review of financial records revealed that approximately $7 million in checks and wires were deposited into Ramos-controlled bank accounts from the outside entities in the car industry.

Related: 

20 Charged YTD 2025 With Selling Fentanyl Causing Fatal Drug Overdoses | San Fernando Valley News Portal

Copious Immigration & Nationality Act | San Fernando Valley News Portal

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