A band of 6 thieves from Romania, caught up with houses and scam in Boston. “They used the pretext to help their sick children.” Press Maga explains through such events the elimination of Romania from the Visa Waiver program / How they were discovered

“This tape will no longer be able to transform American citizens into victims,” said Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin from Homeland Security. “These foreign people illegally in the country should not have been left to walk freely on the streets of Massachusetts to steal from Americans – and under Trump's presidency and Secretary Noem, this will not happen again.”

A number of 6 women from Romania, between the ages of 21 and 42, who are part of a criminal organization operating in several US states, were arrested on July 29, 2025 by the United States immigration and customs service, says a Homeland Security statement.

“The suspects are facing multiple accusations, including breaking and entering with the intention to commit a crime, conspiracy, possession of tools for breaking and opposing arrest. The police confirmed that several of them had active mandates from other states for similar crimes,” the official statement said.

How were they caught

On July 25, the police responded to a complaint about a break at a home near Nonwood Street in Norwood, Massachusetts, CBS News reports.

“The tenants told the police that, when returning home, they found more women in their home. According to the police, when the owners faced women, they fled a car.”

A police officer then noticed a vehicle that matched the description of the one used by women. The officer tried to stop the vehicle, but the driver did not turn off, leading to a short tracking. When the pursuit ended, six women came out of the car and fled to a forested area nearby, where the officers arrested one of them. From here, in a short time, all those who had entered the house were caught.

“Fraudulent scams under the pretext of helping sick children”

“The immigration and customs (ICE) service arrested a member woman of the Romanian group of thieves accused of visa by coordinated thefts from stores and fraudulent scams under the pretext of helping sick children,” detail the case of Breitbart News.

Breitbart News is a site in Galaxia Maga, founded in 2007, based in Los Angeles, where he worked as an executive Stephen Bannon, one of the ideologies of President Donald Trump and a member of his first administration.

In the article about the arrest of the band in Romania, the site resumes the Declaration Tricia Mclaughlin, deputy from Homeland Security. Homeland Security is the organization that eliminated Romania from the Visa Waiver program, after we had been accepted. The Deputy Homeland Security claims that the thieves from Romania were part of the category of illegal migrants and that “these illegally foreign persons should not have been left to walk freely on the streets of Massachusetts to steal from Americans – and under Trump's presidency and Secretary Noem, this will not happen again.”

Come to pay the bail, two men were arrested by Homeland Security

The arrests took place in Norwood, Massachusetts, a city in the Boston metropolitan area.

“Two men arrived at the court to pay the bail and were also arrested by ICE, according to the Norwood police,” quoted by NBC Boston.

“Norwood police said that Mirabela Caldarau, 42 years old, Jajela Chiciu, 41 years old, Flavia Căldăraru, 22, Emilia Sardaru, 36, Michaela Ion, 33 years old, and Elizabeth Sardaru, were all 21,”

“The women were accused of breaking and entering through the day, for a serious crime, conspiracy, possession of tools for breaking and opposing arrest,” reports the website of NBC Boston.

The house they had entered was not locked, according to the same television, who claims that the police gave the information that all the persons involved are relatives, residing in Maryland.

“Donald Trump has eliminated Romania for reasons of national security”

In the article in which the case in Boston relates, the Breitbart site publishes figures, but without assigning their source.

“In May, President Donald Trump eliminated Romania from the visa exemption program (VWP) of the federal government for national security reasons. Visa Waiver is a coveted benefit that allows foreign citizens from the designated countries to no longer have to obtain a visa to enter the US and allow them to remain in 90 days.

The countries eligible for Visa Waiver must meet certain criteria, including a rate of residence with a visa less than three percent.

Romania, in 2024, had a rate of exceeding 2.61%, but in 2023 the rate of survey was almost nine, almost 13% in 2022 and over 17% in 2021 ”.

The problem of people trafficked in Romania in the US and then asked in begging or stolen

It is true that the Romanian gangs of traffickers have become, for at least 10 years, increasingly powerful in Mexico and southern United States, areas where they act with predilection. They take people from Romania, cross their border and then force them to steal, begging and committing offenses from which to pay the traffickers for their transport, according to the criminal files drawn up in Romania and consulted by the press.

A statistics made by Homeland Security in 2019 showed that 4,190 Romanian citizens had been caught, in five years, on the Mexico -Sua border. It's just the statistics of the discovered, from a much larger number that had tried.

Most of the Romanians detained for the illegal crossing of the US border were not people to act on their own. They are women, men and children tracked, many of them vulnerable.

These illegal migrants were transported by the clans, especially by the criminal networks with roots in the area of Craiova, in Mexico and then in the US. Basically, trafficking in persons becomes an engine for the following crimes committed in the United States.

Rubio – Țoiu discussion right now about trafficking in persons

The fight against human trafficking was one of the themes of the recent telephone conversation between the head of Romanian diplomacy, Oana Țoiu, and Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State.

The two officials discussed on Thursday the phone “about the cooperation of the two states in the fields of defense, energy and combating illegal migration”, according to an announcement made by the US Embassy in Romania.

“During the discussion, Marco Rubio emphasized the wish of the United States to develop fair and balanced commercial relations and appreciated Romania's involvement in the Electronic Verification Program,” according to the US Embassy in Romania.