Edinburg, Texas - McAllen Border Patrol Station agents arrest two migrants with convictions for sex offenses.

Saturday evening, McAllen agents working near Abrams, Texas, apprehended a group of ten migrants, including one unaccompanied child, shortly after illegally entering the United States. Criminal records checks revealed that a 28 year old Salvadoran man within that group, Raul SANCHEZ-Sanchez, was previously arrested by the Moses Lake Police Department in Washington for Rape of a Child-3. In 2016, SANCHEZ-Sanchez was found guilty and sentenced to 34 months imprisonment and 36 months of community service.  

Early this morning, agents working near Anzalduas Park in south Mission, Texas, encountered a 49 year old Salvadoran man that had illegally entered into the United States. The man, later identified as, Rafael RAUDA-Lopez, was transported to the McAllen Border Patrol Station where records checks revealed a previous arrest by the New York City Police Department for Sexual Contact of a 9 year old female child in 2014. RAUDA-Lopez was convicted in 2016 for Sexual Abuse 2nd: Sexual Contact with Person Less Than 14 Years Old and sentenced to 1 year in jail.

Border Patrol processed the subjects accordingly.