Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a 45-year-old Nigerian national who was “undocumented” on ICE after a Rhode Island court suspended most of the illegal alien’s five-year prison sentence for indecent solicitation of a child. was pursued and arrested. Said.
What are the details?
The agency added that the Nigerian national entered New York, New York, on a nonimmigrant tourist visa in May 2017 and violated the terms of his visa by staying in the United States beyond the authorized period.
According to ICE, Rhode Island State Police arrested a Nigerian in July 2019 on charges of lewd solicitation of a child.
However, after the Providence Rhode Island Superior Court convicted the Nigerian on this charge in May 2022 and sentenced him to five years in prison and six months of home confinement, ICE ordered that the court decide that he would be sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the next four and a half years. announced that his sentence had been suspended.
Details from the agency:
Under Rhode Island law, lewd solicitation of a child punishes the act of soliciting a person under the age of 18, or a person the defendant believes to be under 18, to engage in various acts related to child sexual abuse. . Possession, production, or distribution of obscene material. Prostitution or any form of sexual activity. Rhode Island law classifies this crime as both a felony and a sex crime.
After becoming aware of the convicted sex offender, deportation officers from ICE’s Deportation Operations Division in Boston located him in Rumford, Rhode Island, on February 15 and arrested him without incident. announced the authorities.
“Rhode Island is safer now that this unpatriotic sex offender is off our streets,” ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons said, according to ICE. “His presence in the community posed a threat to public safety. ERO Boston remains committed to prioritizing the removal of vicious predators from New England communities.”
Convicted sex offenders will be held in ICE custody pending a hearing before a Justice Department immigration judge. Immigration inspection officeThe agency announced.
ICE has indicated that EOIR is a separate entity from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, and that immigration judges in those courts make decisions based on the merits of individual cases and that noncitizens’ final departure from the country is It added that it would determine whether the person is subject to or eligible for an expulsion order. For certain forms of relief from removal.
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