Jamaicans among ‘worst of the worst’ arrested in US ICE crackdown

Two Jamaicans have landed among the United States' so-called "worst of the worst" criminals after being detained in a sweeping crackdown by American immigration authorities.

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has in recent days detained several violent offenders, including Jamaicans Duane Alando Spence and Marvin McGregor, as part of an intensified operation targeting criminal illegal immigrants.

According to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, Spence was convicted of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm in Miami, while McGregor was convicted of third-degree murder, firearms possession, and recklessly endangering another person in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

McLaughlin said the detainees include individuals convicted of serious crimes such as sexual assault of a child, assault and human trafficking, describing them as "pedophiles, violent thugs and human traffickers" who have been removed from American communities.

Also detained were Brett Archer, a Barbadian national convicted of assault in Brooklyn, New York; Randolfo Agusto Diaz-Cabrera, a Dominican Republic national convicted of second-degree sexual conduct against a child in Kings County, New York; and Desiderio Marte Vargas, another Dominican national convicted of attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon in Paterson, New Jersey.

Two Cuban nationals were also named among those detained: Duniesky Eugenio Delgado-Gazo, convicted of aggravated assault in Pensacola, Florida, and Yusney Figueroa Arguelles, convicted of robbery with a firearm in Orlando, Florida.

McLaughlin said that under President Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, ICE is aggressively targeting and removing "the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens terrorising American families".

She added that 70 per cent of ICE arrests involve criminal illegal immigrants with charges or convictions in the United States.

"In 2026, with a 120 per cent increase in manpower, ICE is unleashed to arrest even more criminal illegal aliens and get them out of our country," McLaughlin said.

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