This one is no surprise. ICE has hired every misfit they can find. Bully? Come on! Sex abuser? Welcome! Elementary school dropout? You're smart!! Ignorant fool? You're our kind of guy!
Border Patrol agents have a bad reputation here in South Texas. So, naturally, many of them have joined ICE where they have even more authority to terrorize the population. And these are only the instances that we are aware of.
A new report on ICE criminals should be a five-alarm fire, and somehow it’s barely a headline.
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance just released “They Walk Among Us,” a 36-page analysis of 59 current or former ICE and Border Patrol employees accused, charged, or convicted of violent or sexual offenses. The findings:
→ 50 of 59 cases (84.7%) involve s*x offense charges or convictions
→ 37 of 59 (62.7%) involve crimes against children
→ 35 cases specifically allege s*x offenses against children — the single largest category in the whole report
→ 25 of the 59 cases happened in just 2025-2026 alone
Read that last one again. Nearly half the cases in this report are from the last two years. This is not a legacy problem — it’s an accelerating one.
The report gives names: Brashad Johnson, the DHS official who ran background investigations on other agents, was himself later convicted of soliciting prostitution involving a minor. Former Border Patrol agent John Daly III is identified as the “East Valley Serial Rapist.” Juan David Ortiz, a former Border Patrol supervisor, was convicted of murdering four women.
Ohio Immigrant Alliance director Lynn Tramonte says her team started digging after spotting a pattern of Cincinnati ICE agents committing offenses against women — and found “an inordinate number” of cases involving children, committed by agents with a decade or two on the job.
The report also points to gutted vetting and training: a former ICE attorney testified the agency cut 240 hours out of its 584-hour training program.
No Vetting, No Training, No Accountability
The report details how DHS has systematically weakened the safeguards meant to prevent dangerous individuals from becoming federal agents, and warns that this list of 59 agents will likely grow unless emergency measures are implemented.
Last year, NBC reported that ICE began skipping the prior background check process to rush recruits through hiring and training, resulting in the acceptance of some individuals with pending domestic violence charges. In addition to lax vetting, the Trump administration weakened other requirements and standards that have made ICE and Border Patrol agents more dangerous than ever for local communities.
A former ICE lawyer responsible for training testified that the current instruction program is “deficient, defective and broken.” He said, “On my first day, I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant. For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program, cutting 240 hours of vital classes from a 584-hour program.”
The report’s own framing is blunt: this isn’t an aberration. It’s a culture. And the org is calling on Congress to freeze ICE/CBP funding until real oversight exists.
Worth noting: the report’s 59 cases span the full spectrum from allegations to convictions — not everyone listed has been convicted. But the pattern of an agency failing to screen out or remove people who should never have been armed with federal authority over immigrants and children? That part isn’t in dispute.
Full report via Ohio Immigrant Alliance / reporting by Davis Vanguard
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