A Democratic state representative who pleaded guilty last year to refusing a breathalyzer during a DUI arrest has crashed out once again, this time over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s arrest of his “neighbor,” an illegal alien identified by authorities as a “known member of MS-13.”
Rhode Island state Rep. Enrique Sanchez (D) has even apparently threatened ICE for getting the dangerous foreigner off American streets.
‘State Rep. Enrique Sanchez should be thanking our law enforcement for removing dangerous criminals.’
Ivan Rene Mendoza Meza, a 28-year-old also known as “El Negro,” stole into the U.S. illegally at least twice. According to ICE, he is “a self-admitted member of MS-13 in Honduras and states he has committed crimes on behalf of the gang,” which is a designated foreign terrorist organization.
ICE Boston issued an immigration detainer for Mendoza following his August 2023 arrest for allegedly trafficking fentanyl, a substance that killed an estimated 38,084 Americans just last year.
Mendoza was accused of being one of the “key members” of a drug-trafficking organization and linked to a residence where five bags of fentanyl pills along with a digital scale and an anti-GPS tracking device were allegedly discovered during a raid.
The 6th District Court of Rhode Island disregarded the detainer and cut the gangster loose on bond.
He spent two years as a free man, but after a brief chase that prompted the involvement of Providence Police and the evacuation of a multi-unit home, the gangster was finally captured by ICE on July 13, 2025.
The MS-13 terrorist’s capture caused apoplexy among the usual suspects.
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The Rhode Island branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, for instance, condemned the presence of local police at the time of the gangster’s capture, calling for the termination of Providence Police Department Chief Oscar Perez, and demanding the removal of ICE from city streets.
State Rep. Enrique Sanchez, a self-identified socialist, also melted down, calling ICE “the Nazi Gestapo,” referring to the gangster as his “neighbor,” and characterizing their successful operation as an “act of terror.”
This week Sanchez — whose big mouth and radicalism previously got him in trouble during his time as a substitute Spanish teacher — suggested that he had mental problems and that ICE was the cause.
“Fighting and dealing with ICE since last year has f**ked me up in the head after trying to protect and defend hundreds and hundreds of our community members in Providence and across Rhode Island,” wrote the radical.
Sanchez then issued an apparent threat to ICE, stating, “Your day of reckoning will come motherf**kers. I swear to god.”
He shared a version of the same message on Instagram in a foreign tongue.
When asked for comment, ICE referred Blaze News to the Department of Homeland Security, which said of Sanchez’s remarks, “Because of smears and attacks like this, our ICE officers are now facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.”
The DHS noted that “instead of vilifying law enforcement, state Rep. Enrique Sanchez should be thanking our law enforcement for removing dangerous criminals,” then proceeded to list a number of criminal noncitizens whom ICE has captured, including Mariel Valdez Nunez, an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic convicted of human slavery; Phet Phommasinh, an illegal alien from Laos convicted of homicide, assault, and aggravated assault with a weapon; and Touthtou Sengsavang, an illegal alien from Laos convicted of failure to register as a sex offender, molestation of a minor, selling cocaine, and other crimes.
Sanchez, who has repeatedly vowed that ICE “will pay” for doing their jobs, responded, “Ok.”
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