The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that the man accused of storming the cockpit of a Newark-to-New Orleans United Airlines flight while claiming to have a bomb is a twice-deported illegal alien from Honduras, according to a statement provided to Fox News. Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office after United Airlines Flight 2174 landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport late Monday, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin posted on X. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer for the twice-deported Honduran on Tuesday, the department said. Under President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, “criminal illegal aliens who try to HIJACK AIRPLANES are NOT welcome” in the United States, DHS continued:
