The leftist-controlled Connecticut Department of Corrections freed a Mexican illegal-alien killer last month, whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was then forced to track down for arrest.
The Mexican illegal isn’t a Biden “migrant,” having entered the nation a decade ago. But his story is a familiar one in which open borders, illegal immigration, and sanctuary policies converge.
ICE issued a detainer for an illegal alien, but an insurrectionist sanctuary state refused to honor it — so the killer was set free, perhaps to kill again.
And in yet another similar story, ICE issued a detainer against a Salvadoran child rapist whom New York’s Suffolk County correctional facility released. Presumably, the agency will deport him if the Biden administration doesn’t give him a job at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Drunk-driving Mexican
The killer in the first case was one Israel Alejandro Gonzalez-Arcinega, 40, whom ICE agents collared in Meriden, Connecticut, about 30 minutes southwest of Hartford.
It isn’t clear when the Mexican entered the country, but on November 4, 2013, 11 years ago, ICE lodged a detainer for Meriden police to hold him after he killed two people in a drunk-driving wreck.
On April 21, 2014, the Connecticut Superior Court in Meriden convicted Gonzalez of two counts of manslaughter, second degree-motor vehicle; three counts of assault second degree, motor vehicle; illegal operation of motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs; and evading responsibility-death/serious injury. In total, the state of Connecticut sentenced Gonzales [sic] to serve 12 years in prison followed by five years of probation.
On Sept. 26, 2014, ICE issued and served Gonzalez with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge.
On May 14, 2015, a DOJ immigration judge in Hartford ordered Gonzalez removed from the United States to Mexico.
Last month, “the Connecticut Department of Corrections did not honor the ICE detainer and released Gonzalez from custody April 2 without notifying [Enforcement and Removal Operations] Boston,” ICE reported.
ICE bagged him on May 1.
Illegal aliens are notorious for driving drunk. More recently, a drunk-driving Venezuelan Biden “migrant” was charged in the death of 12-year-old Travis Wolfe.
Rapist Nearly Released
The child rapist ICE apprehended on May 17 is a 28-year-old unnamed Salvadoran.
The sex fiend jumped the border on April 10, 2022, and the next January, ICE reported, cops in Riverhead, New York, arrested him for the rape. ICE lodged a detainer. Suffolk County Court convicted him on August 3 last year, then sentenced him to a year less a day in prison on September 21.
It isn’t clear whether the county authorities honored the ICE detainer.
“Detainers request that state or local law enforcement agencies maintain custody of the noncitizen for a period not to exceed 48 hours beyond the time the individual would otherwise be released, allowing ERO to assume custody for removal purposes in accordance with federal law,” ICE noted.
That suggests ICE awaited the unidentified child rapist because county authorities didn’t honor the detainer.
As for ICE’s not naming the Salvadoran sex fiend, the Immigration Reform Law Institute filed a 10-page Freedom of Information lawsuit last month. ICE refused to honor the FOIA request that demanded information about any changes in ICE’s policy of naming names.
The lawsuit noted that ILRI looked at 208 ICE news releases, and found out that only about 67 percent identified the illegals. In the last year of the Trump administration, 107 of 110 press releases named the illegals arrested and deported.
“These numbers confirm a trend that IRLI began noticing in early 2023. We regularly track ICE, CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] and USCIS [United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] press releases,” the lawsuit said. “Nearly every ICE arrest or deportation announcement issued in 2022 provided the name of the alien being discussed.”
Releases also stopped revealing whether the illegal was arrested in a sanctuary city.
If ICE doesn’t name the illegals arrested and deported, IRLI said, the administration can “allow aliens arrested by ICE to remain in the United States, despite significant violations of U.S. immigration law.”
Second Detainer Ignored
The Salvadoran’s case is the second time recently that a sanctuary jurisdiction ignored a detainer involving a serious crime. And like the Salvadoran, ICE didn’t name the suspect.
In December 2023, police in Milford, Massachusetts, alleged that a 20-year-old Brazilian illegal raped a minor girl in that state, after which he fled to Maine, where Cumberland County cops picked him up. ICE lodged a detainer with the local sheriff’s office, and with Milford cops after he was extradited there.
“The Milford District Court arraigned him on the charges and the criminal court judge set a $5,000 bail with GPS monitoring requirements,” ICE reported:
On Jan. 25, the Milford District Court failed to honor ERO Boston’s immigration detainer and released the noncitizen from custody after he paid $5,000 in bail.
ICE caught the unnamed Brazilian on March 28.
The rape suspect is a Biden “migrant.” He entered Arizona in 2021, and border authorities released him.
H/T: Daily Caller
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