U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued a detainer request for an illegal immigrant living in Montana who has been charged with raping an underage girl.
Wualter Jesus Travieso Soto’s victim was the daughter of his girlfriend, who died in 2024 in a car accident. Soto at the time had custody of the victim and her siblings, despite not being related to them, according to local news reports.
Soto, who also goes by Waulter Jesus Traviesosoto, illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela in 2023 and has been living in Flathead County, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
Wualter Jesus Travieso Soto, an illegal alien from Venezuela, was just arrested in Montana and charged with RAPING his dead girlfriend’s minor daughter.
He was released into our country by the Biden admin
Democrat hero pic.twitter.com/hZOlNbvB1Q
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 11, 2026
Soto is facing felony charges for “sexual intercourse without consent and strangulation of a partner or family member,” the Daily Inter Lake reported.
DHS said that ICE’s detainer asks “Montana officials to not release an illegal alien from jail.”
“He would not be in this country in the first place if it weren’t for the Biden Administration’s disastrous catch and release policies that allowed him into our country,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. “ICE is asking officials in Montana to turn this perverted criminal over to ICE custody so that we can get him off our streets and out of our country. With cooperation from our local partners, we will ensure this predator NEVER harms another innocent child.”
Soto was caught after his deceased girlfriend’s sister – the victim’s aunt – found pictures and videos of Soto kissing and hugging the victim “in a romantic manner,” the Daily Inter Lake reported. After getting guardianship, the victim told her aunt that Soto had raped her on multiple ocassions.
Montana State Rep. Lukas Schubert, who represents part of Flathead County, said in a social media post: “Even in my community in Flathead County MT, a small-town very conservative area, illegal aliens are raping children in our community.”
“EVERY ILLEGAL THAT BROKE INTO OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO GO NO EXCEPTIONS,” he added.
Even in my community in Flathead County MT, a small-town very conservative area, illegal aliens are raping children in our community.
EVERY ILLEGAL THAT BROKE INTO OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO GO NO EXCEPTIONS pic.twitter.com/YR5ekOkq2Y
— Rep. Lukas Schubert (@LukasSchubertMT) May 8, 2026
Schubert also said he will sponsor legislation that would criminalize the transportation of illegals into the state.
Soto is currently being held with a $200,000 bail in a Flathead County jail.
