U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer against an Indian national who brutally attacked a mother and child in Texas.
The suspect arrived in the United States on a student visa in 2023, and has a previous felony arrest; his visa was revoked in April 2025. The illegal alien allegedly pulled the mother’s hair and bit the child, causing significant injuries.
“This criminal illegal alien brutally bit this child and caused her to lose two teeth. This barbaric assault against this woman and her three-year-old in a park was completely preventable,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a press release on April 25 on the Department of Homeland Security website. “The Biden administration NEVER should have released this animal following his arrest for assault. We are working with our partners in Texas to ensure this criminal illegal alien never roams free in American communities again.”According to a local news report cited by the press release, the attack happened on April 18 at around 3 p.m. at Espada Park in San Antonio. The victim, Gabriella Perez, and her 3-year-old daughter were walking in the park when the suspect grabbed Perez by the hair, causing her to drop the child from her arms. The suspect then went for the child, who then sustained injuries, including bite marks and the loss of two of her teeth.
A witness intervened, restraining the suspect until police arrived on the scene. He was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Jail on charges of injury to a child with intent to cause bodily injury, assault causing bodily injury, and illegal entry from a foreign nation.
In a GoFundMe, Perez said her daughter has been traumatized by the incident.
“Since the attack, my daughter has needed constant care, comfort, and reassurance,” Perez wrote. “She is unable to be left with anyone else, so I have had to take time away from work to be by her side.”
The suspect, 24-year-old Atharva Vyas, entered the country on an F-1 student visa in August 2023. In November of that year, he was arrested on his University of Texas campus for felony assault. Campus police reached out to ICE under the Biden administration, but the agency declined to take action against Vyas on the grounds that his arrest was not “egregious” enough to warrant the administration revoking his visa. In April 2025, the Trump administration reversed course, citing the arrest as grounds for revoking his visa.
ICE lodged a detainer request against him on the same day as his arrest.Another CaseEarlier this month, an illegal immigrant from India was indicted on multiple homicide charges after leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase in Ohio, which resulted in the death of a 17-year-old passenger and her unborn child.
Tarsem Singh was driving a Land Rover Range Rover Velar at around 100 mph when a Darke County Sheriff’s deputy clocked him speeding. The deputy gave chase for five miles before Singh’s vehicle ultimately crashed head-on with a Jeep Cherokee at an intersection.
The driver of the Jeep was injured but was reported to be conscious and alert. But a passenger in Singh’s vehicle—Ashlee Holmes, 17—was ejected in the crash and later pronounced dead. Holmes was pregnant at the time of her death.
Singh faces charges of vehicular homicide, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless homicide. He has since pleaded not guilty to the homicide charges, entering the plea via video during a court appearance. His bond has been set at $1 million.
ICE lodged an immigration detainer with Ohio authorities following the crash. Singh had entered the United States illegally in February 2017 through the southern border in California, and was arrested before being ordered by a judge to be released on bond.
Rudy Blalock contributed to this report.