Rhode Island remains de facto a state of Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite Democratic lawmakers failing to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering schools, hospitals and courthouses without a court warrant.
Sanctuary States, according to to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
At least, this maritime nation has a capital city of
Sanctuary City — No one will be detained solely based on an ICE detention order, Democratic Gov. Dan McKee said. Confirmed He said in a statement on February 22nd.
On February 28, Providence Police arrested an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was wanted on charges of first-degree child sexual abuse, rape, and domestic violence. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement had issued an immigration detention order for the suspected child rapist, the 6th District Court of Rhode Island reportedly released him before officers from the Department of Enforcement and Deportation in Boston could take him into custody.
Fortunately, ICE
You can catch him He was arrested on April 10 before he could victimize any more residents in the state.
“This illegal alien was arrested locally on suspicion of first-degree child sexual abuse and released into the community despite an immigration detention order,” said Todd M. Lyons, director of ERO’s Boston field office. “We believe it is in the community’s interest for jurisdiction to honor immigration detention orders so that ICE can directly detain individuals like this who pose a threat to our residents.”
A few days later, Rhode Island appeared to take Lyons’ offer to heart.
A child rapist from Guatemala was in the United States illegally, arrested in 2018, and convicted of first-degree child sexual abuse/sexual assault in 2022. Despite receiving a 25-year sentence, his sentence was reduced to six years. Prior to his release, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections notified ICE, and ERO Boston
hinder him and to prevent them from “returning to Rhode Island neighborhoods to reoffend.”
This period of cooperation was obviously short-lived.
“These are not the types of people we want walking the streets of our New England neighborhoods.”
Rigberto Hoyos Alban, a 33-year-old Colombian national who committed the theft across the southern border near Texas’ Rio Grande Valley in November 2023, was arrested by Central Falls, Rhode Island police on March 13 and charged with two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of second-degree rape and one count of felony assault of a mentally disabled person.
according to To ICE.
Again, deportation officers from ERO Boston’s Providence Field Office filed an immigration detention order, this time with the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Facility on March 14, but again the ICE detention order was not honored.
The prison released Hoyos Alban, allowing the suspect to wander the country for more than two months.
ICE agents finally caught the Colombian on May 22 in Cranston.
“Rigberto Hoyos Alban was indicted on four counts. [sic] one count of sexual assault and battery; [sic] “He is an individual with a severe intellectual disability,” Lyons said in a statement. “This is not the type of person we want walking the streets of our New England neighborhoods.”
Lyons added that ERO Boston “will continue to prioritize the safety of our citizens by apprehending violent foreign nationals and removing them from our communities.”
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