Earlier this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it had “deported prominent Mexican boxer and criminal illegal alien Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Aug. 18 . . .”  The son of Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez, Chavez Jr. had a mixed professional boxing career.

“Chavez is a known egregious public safety threat who had an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition and explosives, and should never have been allowed into the United States,” said ERO Los Angeles Field Office Director Ernesto M. Santacruz Jr. “No one can come here disguised as a tourist to conduct any of type of violence or harm in the U.S. ICE will not stand for it.”

The Associated Press reports that Chávez Jr. “will stand trial [in Mexico] over alleged cartel ties and arms trafficking but could await that trial outside of detention, the boxer’s lawyer said. . . . Chávez, 39, who had been living in the United States for several years, was arrested in early July by federal agents outside his Los Angeles home for overstaying his visa and providing inaccurate details on an application to obtain a green card. The arrest came just days after a fight he had with famed American boxer Jake Paul in Los Angeles.”