UNION CITY, New Jersey — ICE agents in New Jersey swept up a pair of migrants with convictions for alarming child-sex crimes — taking them off the streets Monday as part of what the agency says is an effort to target the “worst of the worst.”
Nicolosa Garcia, 42, and Umana Saez, 36, were arrested following separate stakeouts, which required hours of meticulous surveillance by feds with Homeland Security Investigations, which is part of ICE.
Garcia — a Mexican national convicted of endangering the welfare of a child in New Jersey — and Saenz — a Salvadorian and registered sex offender convicted of exploiting a child in the Garden State — were both nabbed without incident.
“We’re criminal investigators, and what we do is we’re going to follow the trail until we don’t have any further leads,” said Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Newark Assistant Special Agent in Charge John Varrone, who led the raids…