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The database added another 5,000 people arrested by the country’s customs authorities.
February 06, 2026, 10:12 PM
Another Singaporean has been added to the United States (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) list of “worth of the worst” criminals.
In a Feb. 6 post on X, DHS said “an additional 5,000 criminal illegal aliens” have been included to the list.
On the agency’s website, Lim Seok Pheng, convicted of money laundering, was listed alongside Singaporean Amos Yee.
List includes “monsters who have terrorised” U.S. communities
In the post, DHS said the database has registered 25,000 people arrested by the country’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The agency added that the database is “just a snapshot” of such criminals “taken off the streets under the Trump Administration”:
“These are the monsters who have terrorised our communities. We are not stopping until every single one of these people are GONE. Americans should not be victimised by people who aren’t even legally allowed to inhabit our nation.”
We are happy to announce that an ADDITIONAL 5,000 criminal illegal aliens are available to be seen at Our database now includes 25,000 individuals arrested by @ICEgov and @CBP — this just a SNAPSHOT of the criminal illegal aliens taken off the streets… pic.twitter.com/1shwRrqi0Y
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) February 6, 2026
Arrested in 2018 for money laundering activities
According to a 2020 Reuters report, Lim had worked for an international money laundering ring, which had funnelled around US$48 million (S$61 million) to Mexican drug cartels.
Based in New York, she would collect cartel money from couriers across the city and also Chicago.
In her operations, Lim would use burner phones, code names and the serial numbers of US$1 bills as “receipts” to confirm the identity of cartel contacts.
Each collection involved sums of up to US$1 million (S$1.27 million).
Lim would later recruit Chinese nationals, who were local business owners, and hand them the U.S. currency, before they transferred an equivalent amount in Chinese yuan from their bank accounts in China to an account assigned by the ring leaders.
She was arrested in 2018 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Following the arrest, she became a prosecution informant and helped the authorities to capture ringleader, Gan Xianbing.
Lim pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2019.
Top photos via U.S. Department of Homeland Security
