Illegal immigrant arrested in Arizona had felony child sex crime convictions from Utah, Border Patrol says
A convicted child predator was taken into custody in Arizona by Border Patrol agents earlier this month after illegally entering the United States.
The unidentified 32-year-old man was part of a group of six people when he was arrested on March 10, the agency told Fox News Digital.
The group was found in a remote area near Sasabe, Arizona. The man, a Mexican citizen, has two felony convictions for child sex crimes out of St. George, Utah.
He faces prosecution for illegal re-entry into the U.S. for an aggravated felon.
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Last weekend, border agents nabbed five child sex offenders in various sectors in Texas. Other parts of the U.S.-Mexico border have also seen arrests of illegal immigrants with child sex crime convictions.
Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday warned of a "wide array" of dangerous threats coming from the U.S. border, including drug trafficking, violent gangs and smugglers.
"From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanate from the border. And that includes everything from drug trafficking – the FBI alone seized enough fentanyl in the last two years to kill 270 million people – that’s just on the fentanyl side," he said.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.