Two immigrants with violent criminal records were among the large number of immigrants removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Thanksgiving holiday week. According to ICE, the violent criminals were wanted in their home countries for murder and attempted murder in Honduras and Ecuador. The two violent offenders were among hundreds of people removed over the holiday weekend.
Officers assigned to the Chicago ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Office (ERO) deported Edwin Fernando Figueroa-Martinez, an immigrant who was found to be in the country illegally and wanted by Honduran authorities on suspicion of murder. Figueroa-Martinez was arrested by ICE in August in Lyons, Illinois, and was transferred to Honduras on Monday, where he was turned over to that country's law enforcement authorities on unsolved murder charges, ICE said.
On Tuesday, ICE ERO officers in Philadelphia expelled Ecuadorian national Jonathan Javier Arequipa Montesdeocca with a final deportation order to his home country of Ecuador. Arequipa-Montes de Oca is a foreign fugitive wanted by Ecuadorian law enforcement on charges of attempted murder.
In August 2023, U.S. Border Patrol arrested Arequipa near Lukeville, Arizona, after he entered the United States illegally. Within 24 hours, he was released on a release order to seek asylum. As part of the ICE-ERO reporting program, Arequipa was registered with the Compliance Assistance Reporting Terminal with reporting requirements at six-monthly intervals.
In November 2023, Arequipa was arrested by the East Orange, New Jersey Police Department on suspicion of simple assault. On the same day, ERO Newark encountered Arequipa at the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) in Newark, New Jersey, and dispatched immigration detainees to the facility. The next day, ERO Newark arrested him at ECCF. ICE subsequently disclosed pending charges of attempted murder in Ecuador.
Arequipa Montes de Oca highlights the dangers of the mass release of poorly vetted migrants at the southwest border under the Biden-Harris administration. Border Patrol agents at the southern border do not have access to many foreign criminal history databases, according to Customs and Border Protection officials who spoke to Breitbart Texas about the matter.
In addition to the two immigrants who were prosecuted upon their return to their home countries, ICE flights were also used to transport additional single adults and family units to Central America, Colombia, Cuba and Dominica during the holiday week, according to ICE. used. Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico.
Since the Biden-Harris administration issued a proclamation in June that included conditional asylum restrictions, ICE said it had expelled or returned more than 160,000 people to more than 160 countries through the end of September.
randy clark He is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as Division Chief of Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol stations within the Del Rio, Texas area. Follow him at X (formerly Twitter) @RandyClarkBBTX.
