Badges, Guns, and Restraining Orders: The Criminal Records ICE Didn't Screen For
I promise you, it's worse than you think.
The brutal ICE shooting in Maine last month drew an influx of newly revitalized scrutiny into the individuals being hired into these armed positions by the Trump Administration after it was revealed that David Brouillette, the ICE agent who brutally murdered 25-year-old Colombian immigrant Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, had a long-running history of severe domestic violence, which seemed to do absolutely nothing to deter the United States government from giving him a job, a badge, and a gun.
But to absolutely no one’s surprise, Brouillette is far from the only one.
The Ohio Immigration Alliance has constructed an in-depth report titled “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents” that will genuinely make you physically sick to your stomach.
The analysis examined a total of 59 cases of Department of Homeland Security employees who are directly involved in hands-on, face-to-face immigration enforcement and have a documented history of domestic and sexual violence, predatory actions against children, and abuse of authority.
OAI’s Sickening Stats:
The scale of sexual violence is staggering. Of the 59 individuals, 50 (84.7%) have been charged with or convicted of sex offenses, and 37 (62.7%) committed crimes targeting children. Taken together, 35 individuals (59.3%) committed sex offenses against children — the single largest category on the list.
The problem is getting worse, not better. Cases documented in 2025 and 2026 alone account for 42.4% of the entire list — 25 out of 59 cases. The year 2025 saw 13 cases, and 2026 has already logged 12, with more than five months remaining. Compare that to 2020, the previous peak year, which had just 6.
CBP dominates the list. Customs and Border Protection accounts for nearly three-quarters of all cases — 42 out of 59 (71.2%). Both agencies show high rates of sex offenses (CBP: 86%, ICE: 81%), but ICE cases are more likely to involve underage victims — 69% of ICE cases involve children, compared to 62% for CBP.
The analysis proves with cold, hard, irrefutable numbers that under Trump’s current administration, more and more heinous monsters are being handed weapons and free range under orders to, ironically enough, rid this nation of what Trump’s Department of Homeland Security wants you to believe is the “worst of the worst.” In essence, they’re giving rapists, abusers, and pedophiles guns and “Get Out of Jail Free” cards while trying to make you believe that Brown people are the real problem.
The situation first garnered the attention of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance after Cincinnati assistant ICE field office director Samuel Saxon was arrested last December for brutally assaulting and strangling his partner. It was later revealed that she was a non-citizen who was less than half of Saxon’s age when they first met.
A federal prosecutor who argued for Saxon’s pretrial detention presented a trove of evidence that revealed years of horrific physical abuse and threats against his partner of 8 years.
In one video presented in court by the prosecution, a man believed to be Saxon can be heard screaming at a woman, “You stupid f------ b----. You got a fat lip, b----. If I see you here in three days, you will be executed.”
Police and EMS had responded to 911 calls at the address where Saxon lived with his partner in Cincinnati upwards of 22 times, according to the prosecutor in this case. Emergency crews responded to a call in April 2025, when they had to transport Saxon’s partner to the hospital, where she was discovered to have a fractured hip, bruises covering her entire body, and ligature marks around her throat. The prosecutor explained that doctors warned she very easily could have died or become permanently disabled as a result of Saxon’s abuse.
The prosecution’s evidence made it undeniably clear that ICE had either missed or just blatantly ignored the blaring red flags surrounding Samuel Saxon.
Saxon had previously worked in the San Diego ICE field office, prior to his move to Cincinnati, where his unbridled torture of his immigrant partner took place. According to police reports, Saxon’s San Diego boss called the police to conduct a welfare check on him 16 hours after he failed to show up for work one day. The report reveals that police discovered Saxon sitting on his toilet, naked, with a knife held to his own throat. Saxon’s Cincinnati supervisor allegedly told prosecutors that he was known to have a “bad temper” and would often “go off” for no discernible reason, describing Saxon as a “loose cannon.”
OIA Executive Director Lynn said, “There’s no way ICE was unaware of Saxon’s history of violence. His victim had broken bones that required surgery…. The police came to his home 23 times in less than a year and a half. He had a DUI.”
“This went on for years, ICE knew about it, and they kept promoting Saxon instead of firing him. That’s not how a law enforcement agency should operate.”
Saxon will face sentencing for a felony charge of lying to a federal official who was investigating his domestic violence arrest on October 20th. He pleaded guilty to that charge and faces up to 5 years in prison for that felony offense. He continues to face state charges of domestic violence, felonious assault, and strangulation, all of which he continues to plead not guilty to. If convicted on all of the state charges lodged against him, he could face decades in prison.
Just prior to Saxon’s disturbing arrest, former Columbus ICE deportation officer Andrew Golobic had come under federal prosecution for abuse of authority, after he was found to be raping undocumented women who were under his direct supervision in an alternatives-to-detention program. Golobic was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison for those crimes.
Tramonte said, “After noticing a trend of Cincinnati ICE agents committing sexual or violent offenses against women, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance began looking deeper into the criminal backgrounds of other agents. An inordinate number of ICE and Border Patrol agents committing sex offenses against children. Rampant domestic violence. Oftentimes, these acts were committed by agents with 10 and even 20 years on the force. There’s been something rotten at these agencies for a long time.”
While the country as a whole sharpens its focus on ICE, specifically, as the face of Donald Trump’s immigrant extinction ploy — and rightfully so, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been responsible for almost all of the brutal murders that have dominated media headlines, including the recent Maine ICE shooting, as well as the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Renee Good in Minneapolis, among others — ICE is not a rogue, stand-alone offshoot of Homeland Security. In fact, OIA’s analysis found that nearly three-quarters of the agents who boast serious, violent criminal histories are actually employed by Border Patrol, a sister agency to ICE, alongside Customs and Border Protection, all of whom operate under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security, which is, of course, under the purview of Donald Trump. When it comes to the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, it was actually a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection agent who shot him to death in the street as he attempted to protect a fellow protester who was recording the agents during the uproar.
Countless agents have committed countless heinous crimes over the course of Border Patrol’s sordid history, ranging from serial rape to cold-blooded murder to molesting and raping children.
In Texas, 2018, Juan David Ortiz confessed to murdering four sex workers.
John Daly III - ultimately dubbed the “East Valley Rapist” — was arrested in 2021 on charges related to the rape of 8 Arizona women between 1999 and 2001.
Dana Ray Thornhill was handed a 40-year prison sentence in 2020 for the repeated molestation of two children between 1995 and 2007. Thornhill pleaded guilty to those charges. He was hired by Border Patrol despite having been arrested at the young age of 13 for brutally sexually assaulting a young girl.
As recently as May of this year, Border Patrol agency chief Michael W. Banks resigned just 6 weeks after the Washington Examiner released a story citing allegations made by numerous Border Patrol employees, claiming to have personally witnessed Banks “bragging” to his colleagues about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand, both places infamous for deep-seated poverty that drives underage sex work.
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been rife with federal immigration agents and contractors who have faced deeply disturbing criminal charges. Border Patrol agent Luis Uribe was accused of forcing his way into numerous hotel rooms to rob and rape Chinese women in Chicago suburbs. Vermont Border Patrol agent Malik Daley was charged with sexual assault of a girl under the age of 16. David Courvelle, who was a contracted detention officer at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, pleaded guilty to having sex with a female detainee.
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance is vehemently calling on Congress to freeze all funding to ICE and Border Patrol amid this pandemic of criminals getting government-sanctioned guns, and demanded that their workforce be heavily scrutinized and re-screened for histories of domestic abuse, violence, and extremist ideologies.
OIA’s report reads, “Officers who abuse women at home are not safe to carry guns in public. Officers who prey on children are not safe to interact with communities. Officers who use their authority to coerce sex cannot be trusted to hold any authority at all.”
Concerns truly hit a terrifying fever pitch when it was revealed that this problem is truly coming from the top down, after a Department of Defense contract worker whose job it was to perform background checks for ICE and Homeland Security investigations was charged with solicitation of prostitution after he fell for a decoy ad on a website that was connected to a sting operation being conducted by the local police force in the suburbs of Minneapolis.
To say that the call is coming from inside the house would be a grievous understatement.
I want you to truly understand that the United States government, under Donald J. Trump’s purview, has formally asserted that even murderers, domestic abusers, and child rapists are inherently superior human beings to Brown people, so long as the murderers, abusers, and child rapists were born on American soil.
Sit with that however long you need.