Recent campaign stops by former President Donald J. Trump in Wisconsin have brought attention to violent crimes allegedly committed by illegal immigrants in the state. For example, it was recently said that a Honduran national raped and sodomized a girl in the Madison area starting when she was 6 years old and did it over and over again for two years.
When Trump visited the city of Prairie du Chien on the Mississippi River on September 28, he was greeted by giant posters of illegal immigrants who had been charged with recent crimes in Wisconsin. One of the posters showed a person who was caught three weeks earlier in that city and was thought to be a member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
“This horrible person was charged with sexually abusing a mother and daughter over and over again while keeping them against their will,” Trump said. “This animal crossed Kamala’s big open border with hundreds of thousands of others that are worse than him.”
Trump brought up the case again on October 1 in a speech in Waunakee, Wisconsin, which is just north of Madison, the state capital.
“I will free Wisconsin from this huge influx of killers, rapists, hoodlums, drug sellers, thugs, and violent gang members.”
Crawford County Circuit Court charged 26-year-old Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate with second-degree sexual assault with use of force, child abuse with the intent to harm, strangulation and suffocation, two counts of battery with a domestic abuse modifier, and disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier.
The police charge said that Zarate raped and sexted a woman, choked her, and threw her against the cabinets in the camper where she lives with her daughter. The daughter tried to separate the two during a fight, but Zarate grabbed her by the hair and pushed her, the lawsuit said. She hit her head on the ground.
Trump said, “He was arrested and then freed in the safe city of Minneapolis…he beat up another woman in Dane County, which is a sanctuary county, and he had charges against him for strangling out before he came to this small, beautiful, idyllic Wisconsin town.”
The charges against Zarate in Dane County are false imprisonment, violence, disorderly behavior, strangulation and suffocation, and false imprisonment. A female friend says he tried to choke her in her car on November 16, 2023. Police in Madison say Zarate ran away before they could stop him. They caught him in Minneapolis on November 17, but they didn’t charge him and let him go.
The facts of the case came to light during the campaign, just a few days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that 435,719 aliens guilty of crimes had been let back into the country. This included 13,100 people convicted of murder, 10,000 of robbery, 15,800 of sexual assault, and 62,231 of assault. The story said that none of these people are in police hands.
The former president said, “I will free Wisconsin from this mass invasion of killers, rapists, hoodlums, drug sellers, thugs, and violent gang members. We are going to free our country.”
