Who polices the people we send to police the poor?
Immigration enforcement gives thousands of federal agents a badge, a gun, and arrest power over people with little ability to fight back. Some of those agents are, on the record, violent criminals. This hub is a working ledger of the documented cases. Its value is not the body count; it is the grading — for each agent, exactly what the record establishes, and exactly where the accusation outruns the proof.
What this hub is about
ICE and Border Patrol have guns, arrest power, and — since 2025 — a rapidly expanded workforce. A July 2026 advocacy report, “They Walk Among Us” from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, compiled 59 of these personnel charged or convicted of sexual and physical abuse. We do not take that list on faith. We grade each named case against its own primary record — a docket, an indictment, a Justice Department release, or contemporaneous local reporting — and keep only what survives.
The strongest cases are documented and grim: a Border Patrol supervisor convicted of murdering four women; a CBP agent convicted of killing his partner and his own infant son; an ICE officer who shot and killed a man during a July 2026 traffic stop in Maine. Others are charges, not convictions, and we label them that way. One case the report frames around a child turns out, on the record, to be an adult sting involving a contractor — so we correct it rather than repeat it. The apparatus that arms these agents while its vetting and accountability erode is the story; the roster is the evidence base.
How we grade a case of enforcement-agent crime
- Grade every case individually. We never average agents together. Each carries its own verdict, from FACT down to FALSE / MISLEADING, on its own evidence.
- The list is a lead, not a citation. The Ohio Immigrant Alliance report is an advocacy publication. We use it to find cases, then cite the court record — not the report — for anything we assert.
- Separate the charge from the conviction. An indictment is a primary document and earns PROBABLY TRUE. It is not a conviction, and we never call it one.
- A curated list is not a base rate. “Most cases on this list involve children” and “most agents abuse children” are different claims. We only ever make the first.
- Correct conflations on contact. When the report merges two cases — an agent and a contractor, an adult sting and a separate one involving a minor — we pull them apart and grade the merged claim FALSE / MISLEADING.
- Right of response. Living people named here are invited to respond, and we never accuse a named person of a crime the record does not support.
Three clusters, strongest first
The hub groups the documented cases into three kinds, and we lead with the ones that survive the closest scrutiny. Every name below is graded in full in the case database.
Agents who killed, on the court record
The most documented cases in the hub. Juan David Ortiz, a Border Patrol supervisor in Laredo, was convicted of capital murder in December 2022 for killing four women and sentenced to life without parole. Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles, a CBP agent, was convicted of capital murder in 2023 — affirmed on appeal in November 2025 — for killing his partner and his own infant son. David Brouillette, an ICE officer, shot and killed Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero during a July 13, 2026 traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine; he has a documented domestic-violence and protection-order history, and — as of grading — has not been criminally charged for the shooting. We say “shot and killed,” not “murdered,” until a court does.
Where the irony is real and the disposition is not always settled
Frank Figueroa ran ICE's Tampa office and its Operation Predator anti-child-predator program, and in 2005 was caught on mall surveillance video exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl in Orlando. The incident is documented; his criminal disposition is not, so we ship the irony as fact and assert no conviction until the docket is pulled. John Daly III, a retired Border Patrol agent, was linked by DNA in 2021 to the “East Valley Serial Rapist” assaults and indicted on multiple counts; we hold him at PROBABLY TRUE pending a verdict. Ramon Marquez, a Border Patrol agent, was charged in 2025 with abusing minors through the Explorer youth program — charged, not yet convicted.
The part where discipline matters more than drama
The mechanism story — agents empowered while vetting and accountability erode — is stronger than any single case, and it is where we are most careful. Samuel Saxon, an ICE assistant field office director in Cincinnati, was indicted in December 2025 on strangulation and domestic-violence counts plus a federal charge of lying to an officer; the report's claim that he was promoted after offending is unproven, so we do not make it. And the report's framing of Brashad Johnson — an agent “convicted of soliciting prostitution involving a minor” — does not hold: Johnson is a background-check contractor, not an agent; he was charged, not convicted; and the sting involved an adult officer. The “minor” belongs to a separate case. We grade that framing FALSE / MISLEADING and keep it out of the roster.
Questions worth taking seriously
Isn’t this just an anti-ICE hit list?
It would be, if it asserted that ICE and Border Patrol are institutionally criminal. This one does the opposite: it grades each case on its own court record, refuses the report's percentages as agency-wide rates, and corrects the report's own errors. The discipline is the point — the value is in what we won't claim.
Why include cases that are only charges, not convictions?
Because an indictment is a primary document and a real fact about the record. We include such cases at PROBABLY TRUE, label them plainly as charges, and never present a charge as a conviction. When a verdict lands, the grade moves.
The report says one man was convicted of soliciting a minor. Why doesn’t the hub?
Because the record shows something different: a background-check contractor, charged rather than convicted, in a sting involving an adult officer. The “minor” detail belongs to a separate case entirely. We correct the conflation rather than repeat it — which is exactly the discipline this hub is built on.
If you are named in this hub
If you are named on any page in this hub, or represent someone who is, and believe we have a fact wrong, we want to hear from you. We correct the record when we are shown to be wrong, and we carry responses. Reach us through the contact channels on our mission page.