Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested four illegal aliens charged with various sex crimes on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, this month.

The four illegal aliens were arrested by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in the span of just two days earlier this month. The suspects were arrested and charged with crimes against Massachusetts residents in Nantucket, a wealthy island with a population of just over 11,000 people.

One of the four illegal aliens arrested by ICE ERO was 28-year-old Salvadoran national Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, who was charged with raping a Nantucket child.

“Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo stands accused of some detestable and disturbing crimes against a Nantucket child,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons explained following the arrest. “He represents a significant danger to the children of our Massachusetts communities. ERO Boston will not tolerate such a threat to the most vulnerable of our population.” It is not known when the suspect illegally entered the United States.

But Aldana-Arevalo, who was arrested on September 10, was only one of the illegal aliens to be apprehended by the federal authorities earlier this month. Elmer Sola, a 49-year-old Salvadoran illegal alien, was arrested on the same day and was charged with 11 sex crime counts against a child in Nantucket. Lyons, who called the crimes “horrific and despicable,” again recommitted ICE ERO to “arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders.”

Just one day later on September 11, ICE ERO arrested Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, a 41-year-old Guatemalan national who was previously deported from the United States in 2011. Perez-Gomez then reentered the United States at an unknown date, undetected by Border Patrol. The suspect was charged with sexual assault and battery, with Lyons decrying the illegal alien as “a threat to our New England residents that we cannot tolerate.”

ICE ERO also arrested another illegal immigrant, Brazilian national Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, on the same day. Belafronte, who was also charged with sexual assault and battery, entered the United States at an unknown time. He was first allowed into the country legally in October 2018 before violating the terms of his admission and being compelled to leave the United States.

The flurry of arrests come as a wave of illegal aliens have been charged with violent crimes across the country.

Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly killed by Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, on February 22, 2024, just months before 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was allegedly murdered by two illegal immigrants who were also from Venezuela. Nungaray’s alleged killers entered the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

One Honduran national and previously deported illegal alien was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old girl in the hand with a butcher knife in Lowell, Indiana, and ICE ERO arrested a previously deported Haitian illegal alien in Dorchester, Massachusetts, earlier this month.

The illegal alien crimes come amid a historic surge in illegal immigration. More than 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since Biden was inaugurated in 2021. There were a total of 415,000 reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration.