A latest nationwide round-up of 275 noncitizens convicted of intercourse offenses netted no less than two in New England.
“ICE is committed to protecting America through the arrest and removal of those who undermine public safety and disregard our laws,” stated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Patrick Lechleitner on the conclusion of the February operation.
“Thanks to the around-the-clock efforts of our (Enforcement and Removal Operations) officers, our communities are safe from 275 individuals who have demonstrated their willingness to commit sex crimes against innocent people, including children,” he continued.
This week, ERO Boston confirmed the arrest inside their jurisdiction of two Jamaican nationals convicted of intercourse crimes towards youngsters.
The first was a 30-year-old convicted of sexual assault and battery on a Massachusetts resident, who the ERO arrested on Feb. 12 in Barnstable.
According to ICE, the person was arrested in Barnstable in August 2022 and charged with assault to rape a toddler and two counts every of indecent assault and battery on individual over 14 years of age and distributing obscene materials to a minor. He pleaded responsible to the 2 counts of indecent assault and battery at Barnstable District Court in November 2023, for which he was sentenced to a few years of supervised probation.
ICE says that the person entered the U.S. in May 2017 in Charlotte, N.C., on a a nonimmigrant visa that permitted him to stay within the United States till April 11, 2018 — however that he failed to go away by the expiration date.
The second was one other Jamaican, this time a 61-year-old man that ERO brokers arrested in Hartford, Conn., on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. According to the company, he was convicted in Hartford Judicial District Court of sexual assault of a minor youngster in May 2018, for which he was sentenced to twenty years in jail.
ICE says the company lodged an immigration detainer towards him however the Connecticut Department of Corrections launched him after solely seven years of his sentence with out notifying ICE.
The man entered the U.S. legally as a nonimmigrant in 1987 and has stayed illegally ever because the expiration of his visa, in line with ICE.
“This unlawfully present Jamaican national represented a threat to the children of our New England communities,” stated Todd Lyons, the sector workplace director for ERO Boston. “Any unlawfully present sex offender constitutes a significant threat to public safety. ERO Boston will continue to prioritize the safety of our residents by removing such predators from our New England neighborhoods.”
In addition to those arrests, ICE final month deported from Massachusetts two Brazilian nationals charged with violent crimes.
One is Antonio Dos Santos, 52, who is needed in his residence nation for the aggravated murder of a kid below the age of 14. ICE says that they arrested him on immigration violations close to his residence in Plymouth on Oct. 18. ICE eliminated him from the nation on Feb. 23.
The different is Raul Thalison De Oliveira-Silva, 31, who was additionally eliminated on Feb. 23. ICE says that he’s wished in his residence nation on a cost of extortion and had been arrested and charged in Brockton with strangulation and assault and battery.
“Convicted foreign fugitives do not have a right to use our immigration system to flee from justice in their own country,” Field Office Director Lyons stated in a press release. “Those who hope to evade justice will not find sanctuary in our New England neighborhoods. We will seek out, apprehend and remove them so that they can no longer pose a threat to members of our community.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”