NEW ORLEANS, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

This illegal alienentered the countryillegallyunder the Biden Administration

WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking Governor J.B. Pritzker and Illinois sanctuary politicians to not release from jail a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien who was arrested on felony charges of kidnappingand sexually assaultingachildin Kane County,Illinois.

According to local reporting,Janio Gionel Velasquez-Muro, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, pursued a9-year-oldwho was riding her bike in Pingree Grove, forcing he...