They Walk Among Us: criminality inside the immigration-enforcement workforce
A 2025-forward database of ICE and Border Patrol personnel with court-documented sexual, family, and lethal violence — graded case-by-case against primary records, not the advocacy list that surfaced them
Summary
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance's July 2026 report 'They Walk Among Us' compiled 59 ICE/CBP personnel charged or convicted of sexual and physical abuse. We treat that list as a lead sheet, not a citation: each named case is graded against a primary record (docket, indictment, DOJ/USAO release, or contemporaneous local reporting). The report's headline percentages describe a hand-curated list of 59 and are held out of FACT — they are never presented as an agency base rate. Verified anchors: Juan David Ortiz (Border Patrol supervisor, convicted capital murder x4 of women in Laredo, Dec 2022, life without parole); Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles (CBP, convicted capital murder 2023, affirmed Nov 2025, for killing his partner and his own infant son); David Brouillette (ICE, shot and killed Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero during a Biddeford, Maine traffic stop on 2026-07-13, with a documented domestic-violence and protection-order history — not criminally charged for the shooting as of grading); and Frank Figueroa (former head of ICE's Tampa office and its Operation Predator anti-child-predator program, caught on 2005 mall surveillance video exposing himself to a 16-year-old — the incident is documented; his criminal disposition is unresolved and no conviction is asserted). The mechanism, not the roster, is the story: a federal apparatus that arms and empowers agents while vetting and accountability erode.
What we know
- FACT
Juan David Ortiz, a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor in Laredo, Texas, was convicted in December 2022 of capital murder for killing four women and sentenced to life without parole.
Webb County (TX) capital murder conviction, December 2022; contemporaneous reporting (Texas Tribune, AP) - FACT
CBP agent Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles was convicted of capital murder in 2023, affirmed on appeal in November 2025, for killing his partner and their one-year-old son — who was his own child.
Texas capital murder conviction 2023; appellate affirmance November 2025 - FACT
ICE officer David Brouillette shot and killed Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, 25, during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026, and carried a documented domestic-violence and protection-order history a judge had found 'not credible' in November 2025.
- FACT
Frank Figueroa, former head of ICE's Tampa office and its Operation Predator anti-child-predator program, was caught on 2005 mall surveillance video exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl in Orlando.
Contemporaneous 2005 Orlando reporting; DHS/ICE Operation Predator record
What we're checking
- PROBABLY TRUE
John Daly III, a retired ~20-year Border Patrol agent, is the 'East Valley Serial Rapist' — DNA-linked by Mesa PD in 2021 and indicted on multiple sexual-assault and kidnapping counts; held below FACT pending a conviction on the docket.
Mesa PD (2021); Maricopa/Cochise County indictments; Cochise trial set November 2024 (disposition to be pulled) - PROBABLY TRUE
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 a federal officer; the report's separate claim that he was promoted after offending is unproven and is not asserted.
Hamilton County (OH) indictment and federal charge, December 2025 (WVXU, Fox19) - PROBABLY TRUE
Ramon Marquez, a Border Patrol agent, used oversight of the Explorer youth program to abuse minors — charged May 2025 on 15 counts, not yet convicted.
2025 indictment (15 counts); disposition pending - SOME SMOKE
Frank Figueroa was criminally convicted of indecent exposure to a minor — DISPUTED: reachable open sources state he retired with no conviction; no conviction is asserted until the Orange County, FL docket is pulled.
Wikipedia and secondary accounts conflict; Orange County FL criminal docket to be pulled - FALSE / MISLEADING
Brashad Johnson, framed in the report as an ICE agent convicted of soliciting prostitution involving a minor, is a background-check CONTRACTOR (not an agent) who was CHARGED (not convicted) in a February 2026 Bloomington, MN sting involving an adult undercover officer — the 'minor' element is a conflation with a separate case.
Bloomington MN PD, February 2026 (KSTP, FOX9); 'minor' detail belongs to a distinct case