ICE restrains fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for connections to the mob and tools trafficking. Chavez Jr. was confessed via the San Ysidro Port of Access.
LOS ANGELES– United State Migration and Traditions Enforcement restrained popular Mexican fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in Workshop City, The Golden State, and is refining him for accelerated elimination after government authorities connected him to arranged criminal activity and tools trafficking.
Chavez, a Mexican person, got in the USA lawfully in August 2023 with a B2 traveler visa, which ran out in February 2024. He is desired in Mexico on an energetic apprehension warrant for supposed participation in the mob and trafficking weapons, ammo and dynamites.
U. S. authorities likewise think Chavez is connected with the Sinaloa Cartel, which is assigned as an International Terrorist Company.
ICE jailed Chavez on July 2. According to the Division of Homeland Safety and security, Chavez obtained legal irreversible resident condition on April 2, 2024, based upon his marital relationship to a united state person. Authorities state his partner has links to the Sinaloa Cartel via a previous connection with the late kid of cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
On Dec. 17, 2024, United State Citizenship and Migration Providers referred Chavez to ICE as an “outright public safety and security risk.” In spite of this, a DHS police system entrance under the Biden management suggested Chavez was not a migration enforcement concern.
On Jan. 4, 2025, Chavez was paroled right into the nation at the San Ysidro port of entrance.
Federal authorities figured out on June 27, 2025, that Chavez remained in the nation unlawfully after locating several deceptive declarations on his residency application.
Aide Assistant Tricia McLaughlin stated in a declaration, “This Sinaloa Cartel associate with an energetic apprehension warrant for trafficking weapons, ammo, and dynamites was jailed by ICE. It is surprising the previous management flagged this criminal prohibited alien as a public safety and security risk, yet selected to not prioritize his elimination and allow him leave and return right into our nation. Under Head of state Trump, no person is over the regulation– consisting of world-famous professional athletes. Our message to any kind of cartel associates in the united state is clear: We will certainly discover you and you will certainly encounter repercussions. The days of unattended cartel physical violence more than.”
Chavez’s rap sheet consists of a 2012 sentence for driving drunk in The golden state, a 2023 Mexican apprehension warrant for the mob and tools trafficking, and a 2024 sentence in Los Angeles for prohibited property of an attack tool and production or importing a short-barreled rifle.
The Sinaloa Cartel, which Head Of State Donald J. Trump assigned as an International Terrorist Company on his initial day in workplace, has actually been connected to terrible criminal activities versus Americans and the trafficking of fentanyl throughout the U.S.-Mexico boundary.
Chavez stays in ICE custodianship as expulsion procedures proceed.
