Margot Sanger-Katz

Federal authorities have come out and said that 31-year-old Abraham Alvarez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was apparently the ringleader of this whole plot.

He came to the U.S.

on a visitor visa as a tourist in 2001.

according to the Department of Homeland Security, and then he never left.

Now, the Obama administration eventually gave him DACA status, so he was able to stay in the United States through that.

The Trump administration is calling him out again as an illegal immigrant and is really laying down the hammer on him.

Authorities arrested him on June 14th in Nebraska, just days before this plot was supposed to be carried out.

And ICE then lodged a detainer asking those local authorities to hand him over eventually for deportation.

So there are many charging documents when it comes to this case that give a glimpse into what these individuals were planning.

This individual specifically, he was living in Omaha, and he was allegedly recruiting people through group chats on Signal.

And these were people across the country.

One of them was actually turned in as part of this operation by the federal authorities.

He was turned in by his own mother.

That's Tyson Proper, a 19-year-old

who was living in Ohio.

She saw that he was acquiring body armor and ammunition and firearms.

And talking about certain plans that were very concerning, they found out through Proper that he was allegedly recruited initially to an anti-government protest that was happening in D.C., and that was through TikTok.

And then he started to become active in signal chats that were actually apparently discussing active plans to carry out an attack at the UFC fight.

That's where you have this other individual, the illegal immigrant, who comes in and he allegedly was discussing pretty detailed plans to carry out this attack.

And his role seemed to be a ringleader from those discussions.