Baltazar Pantoja Calderon/Mexico/Kidnapping

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 43-year-old Baltazar Pantoja Calderon, an eight-time removed criminal alien convicted of kidnapping and several other criminal offenses in the U.S., to his home country of Mexico on March 13.

Pantoja has illegally entered the U.S. at least eight times. Each time he was caught by U.S. immigration officials and voluntarily departed to Mexico May 27, 1999; and was deported on:

• July 1, 2008;
• Sept. 1, 2010;
• Oct. 29, 2014;
• March 18, 2015;
• May 3, 2017; and
• Feb. 2, 2018.

Pantoja has also been convicted of numerous criminal offenses while in the U.S. illegally including:

• kidnapping May 12, 2010;
• driving while intoxicated May 29, 2008;
• illegal entry July 3, 2018; and
• resisting arrest March 10, 2025.

“The complete lack of respect for our nation’s system of laws that this criminal alien has displayed over the past quarter of a century has in recent years, unfortunately, become more commonplace,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford said in a statement. “The law enforcement community in South Texas is united in our determination to restore sovereignty over our southern border and has banded together to remove these dangerous criminal aliens from our country to restore law and order in our communities.”