ICE Agents Discover Three Youngsters Abandoned in Illegal Aliens’ Home

In the midst of leftist politicians, illegal immigration advocates and left-wing activists demanding the abolishment of the Homeland Security Department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directorate, ICE agents helped three youngsters who were abandoned repeatedly by their lawbreaking, illegal-alien parents.

The three unprotected children were discovered by ICE agents inside a Hackettstown, New Jersey home when ICE agents were attempting to serve an immigration warrant on the children’s parents, according to immigration enforcement officers who spoke to Conservative Base.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and local police officers arrived at an apartment on Main Street in the heart of Hackettstown to serve an ICE warrant on a suspected illegal immigrant, identified as 30-year-old Luis Froilan Ortega-Calle.

When ICE agents knocked on the door, they were surprised to see a 6-year-old girl answer. The agents stated that they found the apartment to be unkempt and dirty. Upon investigating their finding, they reported the child was home alone with her 9-month-old and 3-year-old sisters and their parents location was unknown, police said.

Police and ICE officers, who were outside of the apartment, witnessed their suspects Ortega-Calle and Josselyn Eneida DeLeon-Garcia turn the corner from a nearby alley. When they saw the officers, the two suspects attempted to escape by running back to the alleyway but the two suspects were caught by police, said the police officers who accompanied ICE agents.

The town’s police detectives told the local news outlets that Ortega-Calle and DeLeon-Garcia left the three children completely alone for hours while they would go to work. The children were alone from about 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday until about 8:30 a.m. the following day, officials said.

Both adults face three counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and Ortega-Calle was taken into ICE custody.

The New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency took custody of the three children.

“This case is a perfect example of the work performed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement people. There are many other examples of ICE helping children and/or their parents,” notes former U.S. Marine and police detective Sid Franes. “It’s hard to understand the psychology of the Americans who are seeking to end the careers of dedicated law enforcement officers while offering protection, healthcare, schooling, food, clothing and shelter to criminals who are members of gangs such as MS-13 and the Mexican Mafia, drug traffickers, human traffickers, child pornographers and other illegal acts,” said Franes.

Endangering the welfare of a child in New Jersey is a criminal offense governed by N.J.S. 2C:24-4 which provides:

Any person having a legal duty for the care of a child or who has assumed responsibility for the care of a child who engages in sexual conduct which would impair or debauch the morals of the child, or who causes the child harm that would make the child an abused or neglected child as defined in R.S. 9:6-1, R.S. 9:6-3 and P.L. 1974, c. 119, § 1 is guilty of a crime of the second degree. Any other person who engages in conduct or who causes harm as described in this subsection to a child under the age of 16 is guilty of a crime of the third degree.

Endangering the welfare of a child in New Jersey can be a second degree or a third degree offense, depending on the circumstances of the alleged crime. A second degree crime in New Jersey contains a presumption of imprisonment with a range of incarceration up to (10) years. A third degree offense, on the other hand, contains no presumption of imprisonment; therefore any individual convicted of the lesser third degree charge may be able to serve a probationary sentence rather than jail time. Any potential incarceration is also significantly less than a second degree offense and includes a range of only three (3) to five (5) years of jail time.