A Chicago judge last week released a dangerous Tren de Aragua gang member who had been arrested for a vicious sexual assault despite the ICE deportation order filed against him. The arrest comes as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s approval number crashes to a mere eight percent in support.

Pedro Colmenares, a 33-year-old illegal migrant from Venezuela, is a known Tren de Aragua gang banger who had been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge as far back as 2022. But despite the deportation order, and despite having several run-ins with the law in Chicago, a judge ordered him released once again, this time after being charged with sexually abusing and kidnapping a former girlfriend, Fox News reported.

The Chicago Police had arrested Colmenares for a shocking crime of sexual violence against his former girlfriend who police say was attacked, imprisoned, and raped for several days before being turned loose.

Officers say that Colmenares drove up beside the 27-year-old victim and told her to get into his car “or I’ll shoot you.” He then drove her to an unfamiliar location, forced her into a home, and held her captive there for several days where he repeatedly beat her and sexually abused her.

After his arraignment, a local judge released Colmenares in compliance with the state’s “SAFET Act” which no longer allows most criminals to be held in jail ahead of trial. Federal immigration officials were also not informed that Colmenares was being released, also in compliance with the state’s lax law.

Meanwhile, Chicago’s self professed “progressive” Mayor Brandon Johnson’s approval rating has cratered to a mere eight percent approval.

A recent M3 Strategies poll of likely Chicago voters found that nearly 80 percent disapprove of Johnson’s job as Windy City mayor, WFLD-TV reported.

An overwhelming 79.9 percent of respondents said they disapprove of Johnson. Another 12 percent said they have a “neutral” view of the mayor, meaning only eight percent approve of his work.

The polling pool was not made up of Republicans or conservatives. Seventy-one percent admitted that they voted for Kamala Harris last year, while only 18 percent said they pulled the lever for Trump.

Early last year, another poll found that 70 percent disapproved of how Johnson was handing the illegal migrant crisis, while only 23 percent said he was doing a good job on the issue.

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