Immigration officers in Houston recently deported a suspected child rapist who fled Mexico and used his conditional permanent resident status in the United States to remain free for years.
Christian Ruvalcaba-Salas, a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, was removed to his home country Oct. 16, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Besides being a wanted fugitive in Mexico, Ruvalcaba-Salas racked up multiple arrests in the United States.
MEXICAN ILLEGAL ALIEN WANTED FOR CHILD RAPE, GRANTED BIDEN-ERA GREEN CARD, DEPORTED UNDER TRUMP
ICE deported Christian Ruvalcaba-Salas, a Mexican national wanted in Mexico on charges of brutally raping a child in 2022. He also had a history of arrests for numerous criminal…
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He was granted conditional permanent resident status by the Biden administration in 2021.
His case is another example of an illegal immigrant offender exploiting the U.S. immigration system. Ruvalcaba-Salas reportedly traveled between the two countries and victimized an innocent child, ICE officials said in a news release.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Houston arrested Ruvalcaba-Salas in early October after an immigration judge issued a final order of removal.
“This dangerous criminal alien, who is accused of doing unspeakable things to an innocent child in Mexico, was able to use the immigration status that the Biden administration gave him to allegedly slip into Mexico, brutalize a helpless child and then flee back into the U.S. through the port of entry to evade prosecution,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford said.
Ruvalcaba-Salas was turned over to Mexican authorities to face prosecution for allegedly raping a child in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2022, but then crossed back over the border, according to ICE.
While living in Texas, he was arrested for assaulting a peace officer, unlawfully carrying a weapon, criminal trespass and twice for resisting arrest.
On July 21, 2025, he pleaded no contest to resisting arrest and received deferred adjudication.
According to ICE records, Ruvalcaba-Salas was admitted into the U.S. as a nonimmigrant in January 2020, near Laredo, Texas.
He was supposed to leave the U.S. by July 6, 2020, under the terms of his admission. He failed to depart and remained in the U.S. illegally.
On March 4, 2021, the Biden administration granted his petition for conditional permanent resident status.
Two years later, on March 28, 2023, officials in Mexico issued a warrant calling for his arrest for allegedly raping a child on Nov. 24, 2022.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered him reentering the U.S. three days after the alleged rape on Nov. 27, 2022, ICE officials said, and Biden’s DHS never pursued his removal.
Ruvalcaba-Salas’ conditional permanent resident status allowed him to remain free in the United States. He continued break the law and endanger public safety, while he was wanted in Mexico for raping a child, Bradford said.
“He had been arrested for numerous criminal offenses in the U.S,” Bradford said. “Thankfully, our officers were able to track him down after he attempted to flee and repatriate him to Mexico to face prosecution for his alleged crimes.”
On May 20, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied his petition to remove conditions on his residence and terminated his conditional permanent resident status.
Immigration officials placed Ruvalcaba-Salas in removal proceedings. On July 7, an immigration judge ordered him removed from the U.S. in absentia.
On Oct. 3, ICE officers tracked him down and took him into custody during a targeted enforcement operation in Giddings, Texas, a small community between Austin and Houston.
“Criminal illegal aliens who are child predators and sex offenders represent the very worst of the worst and they have no place in the United States,” ICE Assistant Director of Public Affairs Micah Bock said. “ICE will relentlessly pursue these violent predators and remove them, making our communities and neighborhoods safer and more secure.”
To report foreign fugitives or illegal aliens, call the ICE Tip Line at (866) DHS-2-ICE or file a tip online by completing ICE’s online tip form online tip form.
