The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, November 6, published the names of five men it says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested on Election Day, listing for each man a prior criminal conviction — attempted murder, aggravated assault with a weapon, aggravated battery and child molestation among them — and the city where ICE made the arrest: Salt Lake City, Miami, New Orleans, Newark and St. Paul. Every name, nationality and conviction in this report is as listed by DHS in its own statement; the department's release, carried by EIN Presswire and republished by The Florida Tribune, is the source for the case details, and no independent court records were cited in it.
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement, via EIN Presswire, Nov. 6, 2026
The five cases, as DHS listed them
In Salt Lake City, Utah, ICE arrested Jaime Ramirez-Almaraz, a national of Mexico whose criminal history, according to DHS, includes convictions for burglary and aggravated assault with a weapon. In Miami, Florida, ICE arrested Jesus Moreno-Lucio, also a national of Mexico, whose criminal history DHS lists as convictions for attempted murder and aggravated battery in Naples, Florida — the attempted-murder conviction is the most serious single charge on the department's list.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, ICE arrested Daniel Martinez-Guerrero, a national of Mexico with a conviction, as listed by DHS, for aggravated assault with a weapon in Nashville, Tennessee. In Newark, New Jersey, ICE arrested Ezequiel Mendez-Mendez, a national of Mexico whose criminal history, according to the department, includes a conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury. And in St. Paul, Minnesota, ICE arrested Kevin Ramirez-Gomez, a national of Guatemala, whose criminal history DHS lists as a conviction for child molestation.
DHS describes all five men as convicted — these are presented by the department as prior convictions, not new charges arising from the Election Day arrests themselves. The release gives no arrest times, no detention locations and no court or removal-case numbers for the five, and Awaaz Punjab has not independently verified the individual case files.
What Secretary Mullin said
“Every single day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. 365 days per year, the hardworking men and women of ICE law enforcement are targeting and arresting criminal illegal aliens to make America safe again — this includes on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and yes, Election Day,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the statement. “The Trump Administration will never apologize for putting the safety of the American people first.” The phrases “criminal illegal aliens” and “worst” are the department's own wording, used across this series of releases; this report quotes them as DHS language, not as this newsroom's description of the men.
Background: a running series, published through the election
Friday's statement is the latest in a near-daily series of DHS arrest highlights that ran straight through the midterm campaign. On October 21, DHS announced five arrests in five states in what it called a ‘Worst of the Worst’ round; on Monday, November 2 — the day before the election — it announced 15 weekend arrests of people it said held serious convictions; and officers told reporters during the voting itself that ICE had halted enforcement on Election Day, a claim this site reported on November 3. Friday's release, highlighting arrests the department says were made on Election Day itself, is the department's own counterpoint in print: enforcement, DHS says, did not pause for the vote. The department maintains a public ‘WOW’ page (wow.dhs.gov) listing further cases it highlights.
The timing is part of the story. The arrests DHS chose to publicise were made on the day Americans voted in midterms in which immigration enforcement was a central campaign issue, and the statement was published three days later, on the Friday after the election, as the new Congress's shape was still being counted. Nothing in the release explains why these five cases, of the arrests ICE makes nationally, were the ones selected — as with the earlier rounds, the list is a selection by the department, not a complete Election Day arrest log.
Why the Newark case lands close to home for our readers
Of the five cities, Newark is the one inside this readership's daily geography: New Jersey's Punjabi community is concentrated in the corridor running through Newark, Jersey City and Edison, and ICE enforcement actions in that corridor are followed closely by diaspora families — including families with no connection to any criminal case, for whom each announced operation raises practical questions about workplaces, courthouses and traffic stops. DHS's statement gives no indication that the Newark arrest involved any wider operation in the area; as listed, it is a single named arrest of a man the department says was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury.
What happens next: DHS did not say in this statement where the five men are being held, whether any faces a new criminal charge, or when their immigration cases will be heard. In the ordinary course, a person arrested by ICE after a criminal conviction is held in immigration detention while removal proceedings run, but the department's release confirms none of those details for these five men, and no field-office follow-up had been published for any of the five cities by Friday evening. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if ICE field offices or court records add names, custody locations or hearing dates.