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By Bethany Blankley, for The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Border Patrol agents continue to release violent criminals into the U.S. who are later arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers thousands of miles away. While numerous examples exist, in three recent cases, Border Patrol agents in Arizona released violent criminals who were later arrested nearly 3,000 miles away in New England.
On June 12, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations-Boston agents arrested an Ecuadorian illegally living in Northampton, Massachusetts, who was wanted by Ecuadorian authorities.
He first entered the country illegally on June 4, 2021, when he was arrested by Border Patrol agents near San Luis, Arizona. Instead of processing him for removal, the agents issued him a “notice to appear” before a federal immigration judge at a date in the future and released him into the U.S.
No derogatory information, including his criminal record, came up when Border Patrol performed a background check, primarily because the background check relies on crimes committed in the U.S. registered in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, authorities have explained to The Center Square. No shared criminal database exists between U.S. and Ecuadoran authorities.
He illegally entered Arizona after fleeing Ecuador to escape going to prison after he was arrested and charged with raping a minor and invasion of privacy.
It wasn’t until after May 16, 2023, when Ecuadorian authorities issued an arrest warrant for him as a fugitive that he was known to U.S. authorities.
It would take nearly another year, not until June 12, 2024, for ICE ERO Boston deportation officers to take him into custody.
“This Ecuadorian fugitive is facing some very serious charges, but instead of facing the justice system, he fled and attempted to take refuge in Massachusetts,” ICE ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons said. “He posed a significant threat to the children of our communities, and we cannot allow that to continue.”
Critics argue a significant threat wouldn’t exist if Border Patrol agents were properly vetting and processing for removal illegal border crossers under the law. While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims they are being vetted, the DHS Inspector General has repeatedly refuted this argument. One recent OIG report found that even after Congress allocated $1 billion for facial recognition and other technology to perform background checks, extensive vetting deficiencies exist, The Center Square reported. Another found federal agents aren’t detaining illegal border crossers, and because of Mayorkas policies, are processing those deemed inadmissible under the law for release, not removal, The Center Square reported.
In another case, on May 31, ICE ERO Boston agents apprehended a Dominican national charged with trafficking cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine and carrying a dangerous weapon in Milford, Massachusetts.
He was first apprehended on Sept. 8, 2023, after illegally entering the U.S. near Lukeville, Arizona. Instead of processing him for removal, Border Patrol agents gave him a “notice to appear” before a federal immigration judge at a date in the future and released him.
Six months later, in March, Milford Police Department officers arrested and charged him with trafficking cocaine, distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine and carrying a dangerous weapon – double edged knife.
On the same day he was arrested and charged, ICE ERO Boston agents issued an immigration detainer against him with the Milford Police Department. “However, the department ignored the immigration detainer and released him from custody on an unknown date prior to his appearance in the Milford District Court,” ICE said. It would take another two months before ICE could locate and arrest him. He remains in ICE custody pending his removal proceedings.
In another case, on May 25, ICE ERO Boston agents apprehended another Dominican in Providence, Rhode Island.
He first entered the country illegally in March 2023 near Lukeville, Arizona, where he was apprehended by Border Patrol agents and placed into removal proceedings. But instead of detaining him, ICE ERO Florence released him, also giving him a “notice to appear” before a federal immigration judge.
Seven months later, Providence Police Department officers arrested him in October 2023 and charged him with domestic kidnapping and fraudulent use of credit cards. Authorities released him the next day.
Five months later, Rhode Island State Police arrested him in March 2024 for violation of a no contact order.
ICE ERO Boston agents then lodged an immigration detainer against him with the Adult Correctional Institute in Cranston. “However, the Rhode Island Sheriff’s Office refused to honor the detainer,” ICE said, and released him from custody in May.
Not soon after, ICE ERO Boston deportation officers arrested him and he remains in ICE custody pending his removal proceedings.
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Close the border. Build a wall in Canada and Mexico. Let people line up and ignore their pleas, it is the only way the message will get to those trying to come into the U.S. This sounds inhumane. But when you read of people like this, who have no good intentions, being cited and released, only to reenter…the whole thing becomes a joke. I want to know what why! Why is the U.S. being lenient?? Why so kind? Maybe it’s time to stop being “nice” and say no. The immigrant’s lives may be better, but mine is not.
“This sounds inhumane.” Because it is. Can I ask you Molly, specifically how immigrants ruin your life personally. Did one take your job milking a cow? Working in a factory? I know personally no immigrant is coming to do my job that requires a Masters. So what did they do to you?
Do you know what the number one crime is? Overstaying their visa. Do you know that illegals pay taxes and contribute much more to the economy than you do?
BTW, immigrants commit crimes in the US at a 30% lower rate than White Americans. Now I know that you may try and spin that in a moronic way like we as citizens have the right to commit crimes here, but I prefer safety in general. To paraphrase your guy, “their murderers, their rapists, Bennington, Vermont is not sending their best and brightest”
https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime
The study (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics?):
“Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white, the study finds. And when the analysis is expanded to include Black Americans — whose prison rates are higher than the general population — the likelihood of an immigrant being incarcerated is 60 percent lower than of people born in the United States.”
Questions:
– Does this mean immigrants commit 30% less crime than white-born Americans? Or are they arrested and convicted at a 30% lower rate?
– Of course, this begs the question – what ‘immigrants’ are included the study? Legal immigrants? Illegal immigrants? Or both? If we’re talking about illegal immigrants (i.e., undocumented), aren’t they all (100%) committing a crime?
– And, lastly (for now at least), is this study proposing that Black Americans are twice as likely to commit crimes than are White Americans?
I suspect Chris didn’t read the study and that we won’t hear from him again on this subject.
When people stop gaslighting themselves saying this invasion is “humanitarian” and realize what it really is: human trafficking and crimes against humanity! Then, perhaps, the installed regime and their co-conspirators will be held to account for such crimes. As they like to say, “no one is above the law” except those who are breaking it daily with impunity. Mayorkas, Garland, Austin, et al.
What is going on is not only a direct threat on our national security, but is dispicible and reprehensible to those who came here legally over decades. Is anyone talking about the money paid to and by cartels? Is anyone talking about those color-coded bracelets signifying the slave trade no one is supposed to know about? What about the church organizations facilitating this slave trade? Where are the missing children? How many women and men beaten and assaulted, forced into prostitution, forced into gangs or left for dead?
Anyone supporting this travesty suffers mental illness on a grand scale. Mind control propaganda works obviously.
Jay, you don’t hear from me because you took my valid question and turned into a nothing burger. There is no one who says more words to say absolutely nothing than you. Rather than try to get cute with me, which almost never works try going to the local coffee shop and annoy them with your “wisdom”
“reveals that first-generation immigrants have not been more likely to be imprisoned than people born in the United States since 1880.” THIS IS LITERALLY THE FIRST LINE OF THE STUDY. You didn’t read it, you’re just wanted to bloviate on it because you are a self-proclaimed expert. like guys that do their homework and it looks like you’re on school vacation.
On another note, what does this mean? – “And, lastly (for now at least), is this study proposing that Black Americans are twice as likely to commit crimes than are White Americans?” This question is so irrelevant to what I wrote (and casually racist, not that you’d understand or care) that it makes me think you have smooth brain. Your whataboutism is annoying and nonsensical. When you chirp on here about how no one locally listens to you, that’s why. I brought up a valid point about immigration because that’s what we were talking about. Much like your daddy Trump, you want to have the conversation you want to have.
If you want to read the study and refute it, I may reply to you. But for the record, I never reply to you for the same reason I don’t go out to eat a lot, I have Trump loving blowhards at home I can listen to that say the same asinine things as you.
Regardless of the likelihood of criminal behavior of recent undocumented immigrants/migrants/asylees compared to other native demographics, every crime committed by them is one that would not have occurred here if they were turned away. “Inhumane” applies to crime victims as well.
Poor Chris, what a mindless world Cris navigates and is educated and stuck in a WOKE and DEI world of false utopia. Somehow I believe Chris escaped the military where he get a real education and promote America instead of supporting crapology. Chris is the beneficiary of millions of people that sacrificed their lives to allow Chris to degrade America values spewing falsehoods. He ignores what is really going on: 10 million illegals, countries emptied their prisons Americans are being murdered some being 12 years old. Not fake news, read the papers and honest TV news. Molly Cook has truism, reality and concern in her comment. Jay has some good points. I put my life on the line protecting America and even Chris’s. There won’t be thanks from him (or if a M or F) I know this comment won’t register with Chris, but perhaps some other alike thinkers like Chris may. So sad and troublesome.
Yes, Tom how dare I use facts and statistics to prove my point when I could have been like you and made up an entire strawman to fit my myopic narrative?
I am a life-long Republican, my uncle ran the party back when we were winners. My problem are you MAGA lunatics. How dare you question my military loyalty. Unlike your Daddy Trump, I don’t think you are a sucker or loser. Maybe pump the brakes a little, I thought that you fought to protect the 1st Amendment? Which American values am I spewing falsehoods about? “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Go touch some grass
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Funny after 100+ years, the State has turned us into tired, poor, divided masses yearning to be free. The irony.
“The river of deceit flows down…the only direction it flows is down.” Hope your seat can be converted to a floatation device. There’s a storm a comin’!
Chris claims to have a “Masters”. In what? Insults and ad hominem attacks?
It’s obvious he didn’t read the study which covers a 140 year time period. In addition to H. Jay Eshelman’s questions about what immigrants, Molly is obviously expressing concern about the massive influx of illegals over the past three years.
Even if Chris isn’t affected directly by criminal activity such as rape, murder and drug trafficking, he is being short sighted. At some point he will be impacted by the change in demographics, whether it involves access to health care, wage equality, or any of the multiple factors in the evolving situation. In any case, being smug about one’s status isn’t a good idea when the pace of change is accelerating.
Chris claims to use “facts and statistics” then criticizes someone using the “suckers and losers” quote falsely attributed to Trump… Thank God not everyone gets all their news from Colbert and Kimmel after consuming 5 beers…
Don’t forget to mention Enrique Balcazar the poster boy for Migrant Justice who was arrested not once, but TWICE for DUIs in Vermont! He now conveniently has a white woman (his “spouse” according to VT Digger) petitioning for his US citizenship, however it doesn’t negate the fact he told Border Patrol he already had a wife and two children back in Mexico the first time he crossed ILLEGALLY.
Liberals say, “if confiscating all guns saves just one life, it will be worth it.” Well then if deporting all illegal aliens saves just one life, wouldn’t that be worth it?