From Fox News: An illegal immigrant from El Salvador wanted for alleged child rape and living near a school was arrested last week, a month after anti-ICE agitators blew an operation conducted by federal authorities to capture him, Fox News has learned.
Video footage taken by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on Feb. 12 in Boston, a sanctuary city, showed anti-ICE activists shouting obscenities to an agent recording them from inside a vehicle.
At the time, ICE was attempting to take into custody Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez, who is wanted in his native El Salvador for child rape.
The agents were at Vides-Ortez’s home in East Boston while in their vehicles. They were waiting for him to come out when they were quickly surrounded by activists who blew whistles, cursed at them, and said they were traumatizing children at a nearby elementary school down the street.
Since the anti-ICE activists blew their cover, they were not able to arrest the child rape suspect at that time.
Vides-Ortez was finally arrested on March 12. The report explains that he had entered the United States illegally through Texas in 2016, the same year El Salvador issued an arrest warrant for him. It is believed he fled to the U.S. to avoid prosecution.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin announced in a post on X:
WATCH: Four weeks ago, a frustrated ICE agent in the sanctuary city of Boston contacted me, telling me a group of anti-ICE agitators had just blown their operation to arrest a Salvadoran fugitive who is wanted in his home country on an arrest warrant for child rape & had been living near a Boston elementary school.
He told me while he & his team were in their vehicles surveilling the target’s residence in East Boston & waiting for him to come out, the ICE team was quickly surrounded by activists who blew whistles, cursed at them, and said they were traumatizing children at the nearby school down the street. Their cover was blown, the whole neighborhood was alerted, and the child rapist wasn’t arrested.
The agent provided me several videos of the activists interfering that day (February 12th) as they unknowingly protected the child rapist from ICE arrest due to blind opposition to ICE. The agent asked me to sit on the videos until they were able to arrest the target.
I’m told that fugitive target is now in ICE custody four weeks later (arrested March 10th). The agent says the target, a child rapist, was on the streets four weeks longer than he should have been because activists interfered without having any clue who they were protecting – and they dealing with this almost every day.
I’m told his the target’s name is WALTER ROBERTO VIDES-ORTEZ, a Salvadoran national who crossed the Texas border illegally in 2016, the same year that El Salvador issued an arrest warrant for him for the offense of child rape.
WATCH: Four weeks ago, a frustrated ICE agent in the sanctuary city of Boston contacted me, telling me a group of anti-ICE agitators had just blown their operation to arrest a Salvadoran fugitive who is wanted in his home country on an arrest warrant for child rape & had been… pic.twitter.com/NgOmjEWh6Q
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 16, 2026
DHS later announced, “In Boston, @ICEgov law enforcement was conducting a targeted operation to apprehend Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, wanted in his home country for the aggravated rape of a CHILD. Anti-ICE agitators obstructed law enforcement—a felony and a federal crime—and allowed this child rapist to escape. Sanctuary politicians have created a reckless environment that emboldens this kind of behavior. Now our ICE law enforcement officers successfully arrested this pedophile.”
ANTI-ICE AGITATORS IN BOSTON OBSTRUCT ARREST OF CHILD RAPIST.
In Boston, @ICEgov law enforcement was conducting a targeted operation to apprehend Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, wanted in his home country for the aggravated rape of a CHILD.… https://t.co/gvtWZx5QPQ pic.twitter.com/OIgID1K7gy
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) March 17, 2026
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