Mexico President Expects Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. To Be Deported, Hopes He Serves Sentence In Home Country

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said connected Friday she expects boxer Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. to beryllium deported to Mexico to service a condemnation for alleged arms trafficking and organized crime, aft he was arrested by ICE successful Los Angeles connected Thursday. 

Chávez was recovered to beryllium successful nan state illegally past week aft he made fraudulent statements connected a 2024 exertion for imperishable residency based connected his matrimony to a U.S. citizen.

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Mexico's Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. arrives for his cruiserweight boxing lucifer against USA's Jake Paul astatine nan Honda Center successful Anaheim, California, connected June 28, 2025.  ( Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

"The dream is that he will beryllium deported and service nan condemnation successful Mexico," Sheinbaum said during her regular news briefing Friday, referring to charges that Chávez faces for arms and supplier trafficking.

The 39-year-old boxer, according to his lawyer Michael Goldstein, was picked up connected Wednesday by a ample number of national agents while he was riding a scooter successful beforehand of a location wherever he resides successful nan upscale Los Angeles vicinity of Studio City, adjacent Hollywood.

The apprehension came only days aft nan erstwhile middleweight champion mislaid a lucifer against influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul successful Anaheim, California.

Chávez divided his clip betwixt some countries. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained Chávez for overstaying a tourer visa that he entered nan U.S. pinch successful August 2023 and expired successful February 2024, nan U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

According to nan department, Chávez Jr. has been charged pinch respective crimes while successful nan U.S.

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Boxer Jake Paul fights against Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. astatine Honda Center connected June 28, 2025. ( Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images)

On Jan. 22, 2012, nan California Highwaay Patrol arrested Chávez and charged him pinch DUI alcohol/drugs and driving without a license. On June 23, 2012, nan Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Chávez of nan discourtesy of driving nether nan power of intoxicant and sentenced him to 13 days successful jailhouse and 36 months’ probation.

On Jan. 14, 2023, a District Judge issued an apprehension warrant for Chávez for nan discourtesy of organized crime for nan intent of committing crimes of weapons trafficking and manufacturing crimes, successful nan modality of those who participate successful clandestinely bringing weapons, ammunition, cartridges, explosives into nan country; and those who manufacture weapons, ammunition, cartridges and explosives without nan corresponding permit.

On Jan. 7, 2024, nan Los Angeles Police Department arrested Chávez and charged him pinch Illegal possession of an battle limb and manufacture aliases import of a short-barreled rifle. The tribunal convicted Chávez of these charges.'

DHS besides suspects Chávez is allegedly believed to beryllium an connection of nan Sinaloa Cartel, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Chávez’s exertion was based connected his matrimony to a U.S. citizen, who is connected to nan Sinaloa Cartel done a anterior narration pinch nan now-deceased boy of nan infamous cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, according to DHS.

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Jake Paul moves successful for a deed against Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. astatine Honda Center.  (Vasquez-Imagn Images)

According to DHS, successful December 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had made a referral to ICE that Chávez was an "egregious nationalist information threat," but he was allowed to reenter nan state connected Jan. 4, 2025 aft records indicated nan Biden Administration had not made him an migration enforcement priority. 

The Biden management allowed Chávez to re-enter nan state and paroled him into nan state astatine nan San Ysidro larboard of entry, accorrding to DHS.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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