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MMA Fighter-Turned-ICE Enforcer: John Fabbricatore to Overhaul Immigration in Colorado

MMA Fighter-Turned-ICE Enforcer: John Fabbricatore to Overhaul Immigration in ColoradoEx-MMA fighter John Fabbricatore is going all-in on Donald Trump’s plans to mass deport illegal immigrants. Less than a…

MMA Fighter-Turned-ICE Enforcer: John Fabbricatore to Overhaul Immigration in Colorado

Ex-MMA fighter John Fabbricatore is going all-in on Donald Trump’s plans to mass deport illegal immigrants.

Less than a month into the Trump administration, the former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and congressional candidate has advocated for more state and local cooperation with the president’s controversial deportation efforts in Colorado.

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On February 5, ICE raided three Denver metro area apartment complexes, with more than 100 agents from ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies including the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). And more raids are expected in the coming weeks and months.

Later that same day, more than 5,000 protesters gathered at the Colorado State Capitol Trump’s immigration policy and decried Project 2025, a conservative policy plan written by one of Fabbricatore’s employers, the Heritage Foundation.

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“Mass deportation isn’t necessarily getting rid of all the criminals,” Fabbricatore told Westword. “It will encompass some people who are not committing crimes, but at the end of the day it will improve on our legal immigration system,” he says. “At the end of the day, you came into this country illegally, and that needs to be dealt with.”

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Fabbricatore went 2-0 in MMA before becoming an ‘expert’ on immigration enforcement

For fifteen years, Fabbricatore worked as an agent for ICE, where he rose to a high rank, directing the agency’s field office for Colorado and Wyoming from 2019 to 2022. He ultimately left the organization over concerns regarding the Biden administration.

Before becoming a self-proclaimed expert on enforcing United States immigration laws, Fabbricatore went 2-0 as a mixed martial artist. He scored a 28-second knockout in his MMA debut in 2004. 11 years later, he returned to the cage and added another first-round KO to his resume under the Sparta Sports and Entertainment banner in 2015.

Hermes Franca Deported to Brazil After Serving Sentence for Sexual Abuse

Back in May 2011, UFC veteran Hermes Franca was arrested and charged with seven counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and two counts of unlawful sexual penetration in the second degree, after allegedly molesting one of his own jiu-jitsu students, who was under the age of 14. After posting a vague letter on the UG in which he claimed that his party lifestyle had led him to “failing as a husband, a father, a dreamer,” Franca pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful penetration and one count of first-degree sexual abuse, and was sentenced to 42 months in prison in January 2012.

After serving a little over two years of his sentence in Oregon, Franca was released from prison last month and immediately handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Though Franca had been a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. since 2007, an immigration judge ruled on March 19th that Franca should be removed from the country. On Tuesday, Franca was escorted back to Brazil on a commercial flight, accompanied by a federal official.

Franca’s original sentence included four-and-a-half years of post-prison supervision, and the requirement to register as a sex offender. Being expelled from America gets him off the hook for that stuff, but the good news is, his career is over, he’ll be treated as a social pariah for the rest of his life, and we’ll never have to look at his stupid goddamned hair again.

Back in May 2011, UFC veteran Hermes Franca was arrested and charged with seven counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and two counts of unlawful sexual penetration in the second degree, after allegedly molesting one of his own jiu-jitsu students, who was under the age of 14. After posting a vague letter on the UG in which he claimed that his party lifestyle had led him to “failing as a husband, a father, a dreamer,” Franca pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful penetration and one count of first-degree sexual abuse, and was sentenced to 42 months in prison in January 2012.

After serving a little over two years of his sentence in Oregon, Franca was released from prison last month and immediately handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Though Franca had been a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. since 2007, an immigration judge ruled on March 19th that Franca should be removed from the country. On Tuesday, Franca was escorted back to Brazil on a commercial flight, accompanied by a federal official.

Franca’s original sentence included four-and-a-half years of post-prison supervision, and the requirement to register as a sex offender. Being expelled from America gets him off the hook for that stuff, but the good news is, his career is over, he’ll be treated as a social pariah for the rest of his life, and we’ll never have to look at his stupid goddamned hair again.