SOMEBODY’S DOING THE RAPING: Growing number of sex offenders among illegal immigrants arrested at border. [archive]

Border patrol agents in Tucson have arrested 46 convicted sex offenders so far this year, with 10 arrests since March 1, federal officials told [archive] a local CBS affiliate.

That number is quickly approaching the total of 69 sex offenders that were arrested in fiscal year 2015.

“Border Patrol agents encounter sex offenders, various people with criminal histories in their course of duty nearly every day,” said Agent Adrienne Crowley, a spokeswoman for the Tucson Sector.

Of the 10 sex offenders arrested in the Tucson Sector since March, eight of them are from Mexico and two others from El Salvador and Honduras.

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, he said, [archive]

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. . . . When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. . . .

It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America.

From an interview [archive] on July 1, 2015:

TRUMP: . . . If you look at the statistics on rape, on crime, on everything coming in illegally into this country, they’re mind boggling. . . .

LEMON: . . . I’ve read The Washington Post. I’ve read the Fusion. I’ve read the Huffington Post. And that’s about women being raped. It’s not about criminals coming across the border or entering the country.

TRUMP: Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don.