ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of rape and kidnapping woman on Easter

Published April 13, 2026 9:21am ET | Updated April 13, 2026 9:21am ET



Another day, another innocent woman brutally harmed by an illegal immigrant who came into the country during President Joe Biden’s term.

From Laken Riley to Rachel Morin to Sheridan Gorman, the story of innocent women victimized by violent illegal immigrants is becoming all too familiar. Fortunately, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is hard at work protecting people and cleaning up the messes caused by radical Democratic immigration ideology and policy.

Over the weekend, ICE announced the arrest of Cristian Lopez-Gomez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who entered the country illegally in 2024 under Biden’s porous border and dangerously ineffective immigration policies. Lopez-Gomez is accused of raping and kidnapping a woman in Kirksville, Missouri, on Easter, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Unlike media coverage of protesters and agitators impeding illegal immigration enforcement operations, or protests organized by socialist and communist organizations seeking the downfall of the U.S. government, little attention was given to the vicious crimes of Lopez-Gomez. KTVO News, a local ABC and CBS affiliate serving the Ottumwa, Iowa, and Kirksville, Missouri, market, appears to be the only network to have reported on the illegal immigrant’s violent crime.

Prosecutors claimed that Lopez-Gomez, 25, “forced a woman into having sex with him and unlawfully restrained her” at an undisclosed location in Kirksville. He was charged with first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping, according to KTVO. He is currently being held on an ICE detainer in a county jail in Missouri.

ICE lodged an arrest detainer requesting that Missouri not release him from jail, DHS told the Washington Examiner.

“This animal kidnapped and raped a woman in Missouri on Easter Sunday,” acting DHS assistant secretary Lauren Bis said in an email. “This sexual predator was released into our country by the Biden administration in 2024. ICE lodged an arrest detainer requesting Missouri not release this monster back into our communities to rape and assault more innocent women.”

“Thankfully, Missouri cooperates with ICE law enforcement,” Bis added. “When state and local law enforcement work with ICE, we can safely remove criminal illegal aliens from our country and put the safety of American citizens first.”

Lopez-Gomez’s crime and arrest came just days after another illegal immigrant brutally murdered another innocent woman at a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of Rolbert Joachim, an illegal immigrant from Haiti who entered the U.S. illegally in August 202. Joachim is accused of “bludgeoning an innocent mother to death with a hammer” on April 3. Though a federal judge “issued a final order of removal against him in 2022,” Joachim was granted “Temporary Protection Status” by the Biden administration, a designation that expired in 2024, yet he remained in the country.

Had the Biden administration done its job and followed the law, that innocent Florida woman would still be alive today. A child would still have its mother if not for the radical, illegal immigration ideology of Biden and Democrats. An innocent woman would not have been raped or kidnapped on Easter if not for Biden and Democrats. Sheridan Gorman would still be alive today, as would Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Laken Riley.

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These vicious criminals, harming and murdering innocent women in the U.S., are the dangerous people whom the Trump administration is working to remove from the country. These are the violent, cold-blooded criminals the Democrats let in the country to terrorize communities and harm innocent people. They are the predators who commit vicious crimes that Democratic politicians, Hollywood celebrities, and legacy media regularly cover up or ignore.

Innocent women should no longer have to suffer and be harmed due to radical, left-wing illegal immigration ideology. Democrats have too much blood on their hands already.