A 24-year-old Indian national, Atharva Vyas, has been arrested in Texas after allegedly violently assaulting a young mother, Gabriella Perez, and her three-year-old daughter in a San Antonio park on April 18.
ICE has spoken out after the arrest, saying they want Vyas to be turned over to them.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Vyas entered the US in August 2023 on a student visa, but was arrested at the University of Texas campus for felony assault just three months later.
The University of Texas Police then contacted ICE, but the Biden Administration determined the crime was not 'egregious' enough to warrant visa revocation and decided to take no enforcement action against Vyas.
ICE later lodged a detainer requesting San Antonio turn Vyas over to them after he 'faces the American justice system,' per the DHS.
