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January 17, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Malky Antonio Cabrera Vasquez, 29, a citizen of Spain with a final order of removal, to his home country Jan. 15. Cabrera is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities abroad for sexual abuse of a minor.
January 16, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Newark arrested 33 noncitizens who presented a danger to the American public in a week-long targeted, surge operation conducted Dec. 9 to 13, 2024.
January 16, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Philadelphia removed Ismael Laredo Don Juan, a citizen of Mexico with a final order of removal, to Mexico on Jan. 14.
January 16, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Mario Hidalgo, 46, is wanted for charges stemming from drug trafficking.
January 15, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Philadelphia, in coordination with the U.S. Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector Intelligence Unit, arrested a 53-year-old citizen of Ecuador, outside his residence in Bangor, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 3.
January 15, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Baltimore arrested Salvadoran national Edwin Amaya-Rivera, 35, Jan. 10.
January 15, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Philadelphia removed Wederson Fernandes Da Silva, a citizen of Brazil with a final order of removal, to Brazil on Jan. 10.
January 15, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal

PHILADELPHIA – Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia removed Carlos Julio Sierra Varela, a citizen of Colombia with a final order of removal, to Colombia on Jan. 12. Sierra was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for international cocaine distribution conspiracy and sentenced to time served.

January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Officials in Minas Gerais, Brazil, issued an arrest warrant against the Brazilian national in June 2024.
January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested Santo Raul Ramirez-Lara, a 43-year-old unlawfully present Dominican national with four prior removals from the U.S., on Jan. 6.
January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested a Guatemalan national Dec. 16 who has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, operating a vehicle with a suspended license and operating under the influence of liquor.
January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Esteban Suarez Trejo, 33, pleaded guilty on Oct. 4, 2024. According to court documents, Suarez Trejo was convicted of aggravated assault on Jan. 4, 2010, and deported from the United States to Mexico.
January 14, 2025
|Statement
Juan Manuel Sierra, 33, aka Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, Juan Leva, Leyva Moniker, and Juan Sierra, is a Mexican national who entered the U.S. unlawfully at an unknown date and location without inspection by an immigration official.
January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested Yuser Nolasco-Mendez, a Guatemalan national convicted of leaving the scene of property damage and accused of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, on Dec. 13.
January 14, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested Sanjay Sivan Walsh, a Jamaican national convicted of sexually assaulting two children and tampering with evidence, on Dec. 17.
January 13, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston officers in Hartford arrested 30-year-old Jamaican national Leroy Neville White Dec. 26. White, aka Kevin White, is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice for shooting with intent.
January 10, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Brazil, Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and the People's Republic of China. If a noncitizen arrives and has no legal basis to remain in the United States, they are processed and removed quickly, consistent with U.S. law.
January 10, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston removed Juan Carlos Contreras Perez, a 30-year-old, unlawfully present Peruvian national, to his home country Dec. 19. Contreras was accused of counterfeit crimes in Milford and was wanted in Peru for aggravated robbery.
January 8, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Salt Lake City officers removed Iker Daniel Castillo Sarabia, 22, a citizen of Mexico wanted by law enforcement authorities in Mexico for domestic violence and harmful injuries, to Mexico Jan. 7.
January 8, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested Jorge Armando Jacinto on Dec. 15, 2024. Jacinto, aka Jorge Jacinto Masariego, was arrested immediately following his release from the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, Rhode Island, after serving 14 years for child molestation.
January 8, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested an Ecuadoran national Jan. 2 who has been accused of human trafficking and migrant smuggling in his home country.
January 7, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
This was the second time ERO arrested Agnaldo Moreira da Cruz, 29, after two separate incidents where the Barnstable County Correctional Facility and subsequently the Barnstable Superior Court released him from custody, not honoring an ICE detainer and the conditions of a Writ of Habeas Corpus between ERO and Massachusetts.
January 7, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Boston arrested Rudy Salvador-Perez, a 20-year-old Guatemalan national, on Dec. 13 after the Essex County House of Corrections released him into ICE custody. Salvador is accused of kidnapping, indecent assault and battery on a child, indecent exposure, and assault and battery.
January 7, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Walter Jose Galeas Sanchez, 40, a documented MS-13 gang member, was removed from the United States Dec. 13.
January 3, 2025
|Enforcement and Removal
Those included removal flights to Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Mexico.
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