The husband of Coachella City Councilmember Yadira Perez was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a Walmart parking lot, with authorities citing his illegal reentry into the United States and prior criminal convictions as reasons for their actions. Perez, elected to the Council last year, resigned from her post as a deputy with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department following the incident.
Federal authorities confirmed that Perez’s husband, 51-year-old Isidro Jimenez, is a Mexican national who was previously deported in 1995 following a conviction for possession of methamphetamine for sale, as the Palm Springs Desert Sun reports.
ICE stated that Jimenez illegally reentered the U.S. and accumulated additional criminal convictions, including domestic violence in 1998, multiple DUIs, and an assault with a deadly weapon in 2023. His case was flagged during a review by ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center, leading to his arrest…