Philadelphia fentanyl dealer Virginia Basora-Gonzalez got off lightly by being deported back to the Dominican Republic. She didn’t take the hint and sneaked back into the United States. Someone ratted her out to ICE and she’s not real happy about it. The look on her face as she’s being led away in cuffs is priceless.
Dealer crying the blues
Dominican drug dealer Virginia Basora-Gonzalez is wailing out the smugglers blues. As New York Post proudly reports, “previously deported for peddling fentanyl,” she was “seen breaking down in tears as she was arrested.”
That’s what she gets for being back in the United States illegally.
The 36-year-old unlicensed pharmacist “was sobbing as agents arrested her in Philadelphia.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement picked the dealer of death up on March 12. Courtesy of Tom Homan’s travel agency she’s being whisked away, once again.
A “U.S. magistrate judge issued a federal warrant for her arrest on the same day a notice of intent to reinstate a final removal order against her was to be served.”
Authorities note that the previously convicted drug dealer “will remain in federal custody pending charges for re-entry after deportation.” If she’s lucky, she’ll get sent back to the Dominican Republic again.
There’s also a chance she could get diverted down to El Salvador to serve her drug and re-entry sentence first. Some Tren de Aragua and MS-13 members were recently surprised to find themselves in super-intense supermax custody.
Commitment to the community
Immigration and Customs couldn’t wait to circulate the images of her arrest. The idea is to send a message to every other dealer, thief and criminal living here illegally to deport themselves.
If they save ICE some hassle, they can apply to come back properly. Otherwise, they might find themselves on ice in El Salvador.
“The apprehension of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez demonstrates our commitment to protecting our communities from criminal aliens who engage in serious illegal activities that pose a threat to public safety.”
It was probably another dealer who turned her in, unless she burned one of her customers.
ICE discovered “the convicted opioid dealer illegally re-entered the U.S. a second time” after “a confidential source reported her return on March 7, 2025.” A joint task force soon swooped in and “nabbed Basora-Gonzalez outside her job at La Tierra Del Caribe Restaurant in North Philadelphia, where she allegedly worked as a cook.”
The FBI matched her up as the previously convicted dealer using their handy-dandy fingerprint database. Her public defender thinks she “shouldn’t be detained before her trial, saying that being charged with illegal re-entry did not make her a flight risk.” Obviously, her counsel votes Democrat.
