(The Center Square) – Of the top 100 convicted criminals arrested during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office,  15 were arrested in or committed crimes in Texas, the most of any state.

The next greatest numbers were arrested by ICE agents in New York and California despite state opposition, according to an analysis of the data by The Center Square.

The White House on Monday posted mugshots of 100 convicted criminals who are all in the country illegally and deported by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. Thousands have been arrested and deported under Trump’s mass deportation plan, but the administration erected posters of “the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested” on the White House lawn “for the world to see – highlighting the Trump Administration’s unprecedented effort to secure our homeland and send these vicious criminals back where they belong,” the White House said.

The top 100 represent the types of violent criminals being arrested nationwide – those convicted of violent crimes of murder, homicide, rape, aggravated battery, multiple types of sexual assault and abuse of a minor, kidnapping, multiple sex offenses, assault with a firearm, fentanyl distribution, child pornography, drug possession, among others.

The most arrested were connected to Texas. They were arrested by ICE agents in Texas, convicted for committing crimes in Texas or in other states, or they were arrested by federal agents in other states after committing crimes in Texas.

Top of the list was Mexican national Apolinar Islas Hernandez, arrested by ICE El Paso agents, convicted of murder and aggravated battery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Next was Indian national Raju Varugheses Vayechaparampil, arrested by ICE Houston agents and convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Harris County, Texas.

The greatest number of arrests on the list from Texas were made by ICE Houston agents (6), followed by those made by ICE Dallas agents (5).

ICE Houston agents arrested Honduran national Eduardo Garcia-Cortez, convicted of murder in Los Angeles County, Calif.; Guatemalan national Che Xol Norberto, convicted of indecency with child sexual contact in Harris County; Mexican national Roberto Fernandez Gomez, convicted of murder in Travis County. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and had a removal order from 2007.

ICE Houston agents also arrested Cuban national Osvaldo Diaz, a registered sex offender, convicted of trespassing and sexual assault/battery of a child in Florida, with a removal order from 2007. They also arrested Mexican national Rogelio Hernandez, convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

ICE Dallas arrested Mexican national Carols Ambriz Estrada, convicted of deliberate homicide in Helena, Montana; Mexican national Miguel Angel Lopez-Hernandez, convicted of assault-person with semi-automatic firearm and sexual penetration with an object with force in Riverside, Calif.; Burmese national Tay Myint, convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Cactus, Texas. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and had a removal order from 2019.

ICE Dallas agents also arrested Mexican national Bernave Pineda Bustamante, convicted of sexual assault of a child and sentenced to 10 years in prison; and Nicaraguan national Cesar Augusto Delgado-Sanchez, convicted of sexual assault/strong arm and lewd lascivious acts with a minor and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Also on the top 100 list were those arrested in Austin, Denver and Calexico, Calif., after being convicted of crimes in Texas.

In Austin, ICE agents arrested Mexican national Humberto Ruiz-Zapata, convicted of Driving While Intoxicated and murder; he had a removal order from 2017.

In Denver, ICE agents arrested Mexican national Juan Nieves, convicted of sexual assault, sex offenses against a child, obstructing police and Driving Under the Influence of alcohol in Houston County, Texas.

In Calexico, ICE agents arrested Salvadoran national Jose Douglas Pineda-Argueta, convicted of indecency with a child in Harris County. He had a removal order from 2015.

Some of the most egregious convictions listed include crimes committed against children. U.S. House Democrats voted against deporting such offenders last fall.

In order to assist federal deportation efforts, Trump issued executive orders on Monday targeting sanctuary jurisdictions and providing support to local police, and his National Counterterrorism Center identified 1,200 alleged terrorists illegally in the U.S.

At a press briefing on Monday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Trump’s border policies were “making America safe again,” The Center Square reported.

In Trump’s first 100 days, illegal immigration is down 96%, with the U.S. having “the most secure border in the history of this nation,” Homan said. Referring to reduced illegal crossings as a metric of border security, he said, “the numbers prove Trump’s policies are saving lives every day.”

(The Center Square) – One hundred days into his second term, President Donald Trump has secured water rights for south Texas farmers ensuring that Mexico complies with a 1944 era treaty.

“In a historic demonstration of leadership, President Trump prioritized ensuring Mexican water deliveries for Texas farmers under the 1944 [Treaty of Utilization of Waters.] Through the direct engagement of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, we are now delivering on the President’s promise,” the Secretary of State’s Office announced. “Mexico has committed to make an immediate transfer of water from international reservoirs and increase the U.S. share of the flow in six of Mexico’s Rio Grande tributaries through the end of the current five-year water cycle.”

Doing so provides immediate and short-term water relief to Texas farmers and ranchers in the Rio Grande Valley in the current growing season through October.

U.S. and Mexican officials are also developing a long-term plan to reliably meet treaty requirements and address outstanding water debts, according to the announcement. This includes Mexico providing additional monthly transfers and regularly consulting on water deliveries to Texas, according to the announcement.

The announcement came one month after Trump halted water shipments to Mexico and threatened additional tariffs and even sanctions to enforce the treaty, The Center Square reported. He did so after Republican and Democratic members of Congress called on the Biden administration for four years to enforce the treaty to no avail. Mexico refused to supply water to south Texas farmers, contributing to a water shortage that resulted in the last sugar mill in Texas closing last year.

The Rio Grande Valley in Texas is among the most fertile agricultural regions in the state and country. In order to grow a wide range of crops, farmers rely on water from the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers. To manage water usage and conservation efforts, Mexico and the U.S. entered into a 1944 Treaty of Utilization of Waters.

The treaty governs water usage between the U.S. and Mexico, including from two international reservoirs, Lake Amistad and Falcon Lake in Texas along the international border. Mexico has historically released water storage from Lake Amistad to Mexican growers, not to Texas growers, and the U.S. federal government hasn’t enforced the treaty. Last year, Mexican officials killed any agreements to release water to Texans, even running ads in Mexico City to protest compliance with the treaty, according to several news reports.

Under the treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver 1.75 million acre-feet over five years to the United States from the Rio Grande River; the U.S. is obligated to deliver 1.5 million acre-feet of water to Mexico from the Colorado River.

Prior to Mexico agreeing to comply with the treaty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, worked on providing a $280 million USDA-Texas Department of Agriculture grant to assist eligible Rio Grande Valley farmers and producers suffering from Mexico’s failure to deliver water.

Cruz lauded the administration’s successful negotiation after “fighting for years to secure those deliveries, including by advancing sanctions legislation in the United States Senate and by emphasizing to both American and Mexican officials that the U.S.-Mexico relationship cannot proceed productively unless Mexico meets its obligations,” he said. While the USDA grant was an important way to provide critical economic relief to RGV farmers, “that was only, and explicitly, a stopgap measure,” he said.

The bigger accomplishment was that the Trump administration ensured “that other nations must meet their obligations to Americans,” he said. Ongoing negotiations will also “establish a basis for the further necessary work that must be done to assure Texas farmers of reliable and predictable water supplies.”

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Edinburg, who has worked for years to bring more water to the RGV, said she was told for two years by the Biden administration that “nothing could be done.”

“Now, we finally have a President and an Administration that has shown strength and delivered,” she said.