Marco Nunez-Mitjan, a Cuban national living in Orlando, Florida, was convicted of committing lewd acts with a minor and failing to register as a sex offender. Byron Arevalo-Pacheco, a Guatemalan national in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was convicted of child molestation and false imprisonment. Selina Shiuli, a Bangladeshi national in Charlotte, North Carolina, was convicted of second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
You can look them up yourself now. The Department of Homeland Security just made sure of that.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced this week that the agency added 5,000 more criminal illegal aliens to its publicly searchable database at WOW.DHS.gov — short for "Worst of the Worst." The update pushes the total number of entries past 40,000. The additions include convicted murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers, and verified gang members, each entry listing name, nationality, criminal history, and last known location.
The names on this list aren't abstractions. Jose Alberto Mendoza, a Mexican national and Surenos gang member in San Jose, California — convicted of homicide, aggravated assault, and weapons possession. Douglas Benitez-Herrera, a Honduran national in Ray Brook, New York — convicted of manslaughter, DUI, robbery, and illegal reentry. Marco Lual, a Sudanese national in Phoenix, Arizona — convicted of attempted sexual assault and attempted kidnapping. Free Gendemeh, a Sierra Leonean national in Louisville, Kentucky — convicted of drug trafficking, weapons possession, and flight to avoid prosecution.
These aren't hypothetical threats some policy analyst dug out of a spreadsheet. These are people with convictions, addresses, and gang affiliations — information the previous administration treated like classified material.
"The Trump Administration is committed to transparency, and that's why this website allows the American people to see for themselves what kind of dangerous illegal aliens ICE is removing from their communities," Mullin said.
The database lists a name, a country of origin, a location in the United States, a criminal record, and — where applicable — a gang affiliation. Eddy Lopez, Mexican national, Soledad, California, Surenos gang member, convicted of attempted murder and drug possession. Sengkha Koulavongsa, Laotian national, Fresno, California, convicted of drug trafficking, burglary, and parole violation. Richard Vieira, Brazilian national, Shirley, Massachusetts, convicted of assault and battery, weapons possession, and witness intimidation.
Mullin made the administration's posture clear: "This is still just a fraction of the total amount that the brave men and women of ICE work every single day to get off our streets and out of our country. We will never stop removing illegal aliens, and we will never apologize for putting the safety of the American people first."
A fraction. Forty thousand names and it's still a fraction. That's the scale of what was allowed to accumulate while the last administration told us the border was secure and immigration enforcement was "working as intended."
The database is live. It's free. It's searchable by name. Forty thousand entries, including convicted killers, child molesters, gang enforcers, and drug traffickers — each one with a history someone decided you didn't need to know about.
Now you do.