Which named gang members and violent offenders has DHS publicly reported as deported since January 2025?
Executive summary
Public DHS materials since January 2025 publicly name multiple individual gang members and violent offenders as subjects of ICE enforcement actions—most often noting arrests, charges, or that they were “removed” — but in the documents provided there is no clear, consistently worded DHS press release that unambiguously states “deported” for a specific named individual; DHS instead reports large removal totals and names people arrested or removed in programmatic summaries [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. What DHS explicitly names: arrested, charged, removed (but not always “deported”)
DHS press materials identify specific people tied to violent offenses and gangs: for example, Yorvis Michel Carrascal Campo is identified as a confirmed member of Tren de Aragua and criminally charged in New Mexico [1], Jimmy Harry Velasquez Gomez is described as a twice-deported Honduran repeat sex offender now facing child‑sex charges [1], Enrique Bautista Vasquez is cited in DHS releases in connection with alleged sexual crimes against a child [5], and ICE operations reports name Eduardo Flores‑Ruiz, Mahad Abdulkadir Yusuf, and Jose Reyes Leon‑Deras as violent offenders arrested during targeted operations [4]. These releases state arrests, charges, or that individuals were “removed” as part of broad enforcement activity, but they do not consistently use the single word “deported” tied to each named person in the excerpts provided [1] [5] [4].
2. DHS’s language matters: “removed,” “arrested,” “deported” and program totals
DHS and ICE documents prominently publish aggregate “removals” and deportation totals—e.g., claims of hundreds of thousands of removals and specific counts of known or suspected terrorists and gang arrests—while naming few individuals in that context [2] [3]. The agency frequently contrasts large numeric tallies (e.g., “more than 670,000” removals and hundreds of thousands of criminal removals) with case vignettes of arrests or charges [1] [2] [3]. Those rhetorical and data choices mean that a named person in a DHS release may be described as arrested, charged, or “removed” without the release making the narrower legal characterization “deported” for that specific name in the provided text [1] [4].
3. Named gang affiliations and violent-offender descriptions in DHS messaging
DHS has singled out specific organized groups by name—most frequently Tren de Aragua and MS‑13—and has associated named individuals with those gangs in press material [1] [6] [3]. For example, DHS statements reference hundreds of Tren de Aragua members arrested and call out gang membership among some named defendants [6]. The material also routinely frames named individuals as “violent criminal illegal aliens” or “child rapists” in releases that describe enforcement operations [4] [5]. These characterizations reflect DHS’s public messaging priorities and enforcement narrative [6] [4].
4. Limits of the available reporting and alternative interpretations
The assembled sources emphasize program-level outcomes and enforcement rhetoric; independent reporting cited elsewhere (e.g., The Independent, summarized in a secondary source) raises conflicting evidence about the share of detainees with violent convictions and about non‑criminal arrests [7]. The DHS excerpts here do not provide documentary case closure proof (court records or removal orders) for each named individual; therefore it is not possible from these materials alone to verify whether each named person was formally deported, self‑deported, transferred, or remains subject to proceedings [8] [9]. Readers should note DHS’s consistent use of strong aggregate claims and selective naming as a public‑relations and enforcement strategy [2] [3].
5. Bottom line: named individuals DHS publicly linked to enforcement, but not clearly labeled as “deported” in the cited texts
In the documents provided, DHS publicly identifies specific violent offenders and gang-affiliated individuals involved in ICE operations—names appearing in releases include Yorvis Michel Carrascal Campo, Jimmy Harry Velasquez Gomez, Enrique Bautista Vasquez, Eduardo Flores‑Ruiz, Mahad Abdulkadir Yusuf, and Jose Reyes Leon‑Deras among others [1] [5] [4]—yet the excerpts do not consistently or unambiguously state that those particular named people were formally deported; instead DHS cites arrests, charges, removals in programmatic terms and summary deportation totals [1] [2] [3]. To produce a definitive list of named individuals who were explicitly reported as deported would require checking the underlying DHS removal orders, ICE case files, or full press releases and follow‑up documents beyond the snippets provided [8] [9].