A Central American man, who was previously deported from the United States, was arrested near a border crossing in California after he admitted to being an active member of the MS-13 gang while planning to seek asylum.

Officers at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Calexico, California, approached Jose Villalobos-Jobel on Saturday and detained him after he was suspected of being in the United States without legal documentation, according to CBS affiliate KESQ.

The 29-year-old, who traveled through Mexico after joining the migrant caravan in his native country of Honduras, confessed to border patrol agents from the Calexico Port of Entry that he belonged to the notorious criminal organization.

A Las Vegas immigration judge in 2006 handed down a deportation order for the Honduran man, who was 'physically removed via escort flight' to his homeland. It iss not known why he was deported.

Jose Villalobos-Jobel was arrested by order agents arrested after he admitted being a member of the MS-13 gang and trying to apply for asylum

Trump claimed on Wednesday he will shut the government down if he doesn't get $5 billion for his border wall

The arrest of Villalobos-Jobel comes after President Donald Trump' claimed that members of the gang would try to infiltrate the caravan in the hope of being granted asylum.

Trump was criticized in May when he attacked all immigrants and labeled them as 'animals' before he said he was talking about the gang that was started in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

"I'm referring and you know I'm referring to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in. I was talking about the MS-13. And if you look a little bit further on in the tape, you'll see that," Trump told reporters during a May 17 press conference in California.

"MS-13 - these are animals. ... We need strong immigration laws. ... We have laws that are laughed at on immigration. So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals and guess what, I always will," Trump added.

More recently, following Sunday's border clash between U.S. agents and members of the caravan, Trump went on Twitter and re-ignited his attack.

'Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A.,' Trump tweeted. 'We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!'

President Donald Trump threatened to 'permanently' close the U.S.-Mexico border if members of a migrant caravan who stormed the heavily guarded fences near Tijuana aren't sent back to their Central American countries

President Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he's 'totally willing' to incur a government shutdown on December 7 if Senate Democrats don't agree to spend $5 billion on his long-promised border wall.

'We need border security in this country, and if that means a shutdown I would totally be willing to shut it down,' he told Politico. 'And I think it's a really bad issue for the Democrats.'

A spokesperson with the U.S. Border Patrol in the El Centro Sector told DailyMail on Wednesday that Villalobos-Joel was traveling alone when he was apprehended by the immigration unit patrolling the southern border area.

According to an immigration report filed during his interrogation, Villalobos-Joel said he 'joined the caravan because it was safer to make the trip from Honduras'.

Villalobos is the second MS-13 admitted gang member who has been detained since October by agents from the El Centro Sector.

Villalobos is the only known MS-13 gang member tied to the migrant caravan that has been appended by the officers assigned to the same border patrol division in southern California.

A migrant woman and her children flee tear gas in front of the Tijuana-San Diego border

A caravan migrant hurls a rock toward U.S. border patrol on Sunday

An estimated 7,000 migrants have traveled 2,000 miles through the length of Mexico from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador since mid-October. The Trump administration is defending the southern California border and insisting Mexico deport anyone trying to sneak across.

Thousands of migrant have settled in recent weeks across Mexican border towns, especially Tijuana, a city popular with American tourists that tend to trickle across the border crossing.

But the city, know for it's wild nightlife, was also the site of an ugly clash Sunday that pitted U.S. border agents against migrants desperately looking to cross into the United States.

Around 500 men, women and children, part of a caravan of roughly 5,000 mainly Hondurans who have been trekking toward the US for weeks, scrambled over a rusted metal fence and surged into a concrete riverbed toward San Diego.

Borders agents responded to the rock-throwing migrants by firing tear gas and rubber bullets in the chaotic event.

The group was stopped by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and the border agents who unloaded their weapons to keep them at bay. At least one man was wounded.

Mexico since then has deported scores of Central American migrants arrested after hundreds forced their way through a Mexican police blockade.

'The U.S. Border Patrol does not process Asylum cases. Detainees that are seeking Asylum make a Credible Fear Claim to the Border Patrol and those cases are referred to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who will then process the Asylum Claim,' the El Centro Sector Border Patrol said in a separate statement to DailyMail.com.