ERO Boston arrests Italian citizen who overstayed US visa and was convicted of assault and aggravated injury in Italy
BOSTON — On Jan. 22, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Dominican national with Italian citizenship who overstayed his visa and was previously convicted and sentenced in Italy for assault and aggravated injury.
“Beyond overstaying his visitor status here in the U.S., this individual has a violent criminal history, which shows him to be a potential danger to the community,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons. “I would like to commend our officers for their diligence in locating and arresting this individual.”
The subject entered the United States on May 31, 2001, on a visa waiver. He did not depart as required on July 31, 2021.
On Aug. 8, 2016, he was issued a final judgement of guilty for the offense of assault/aggravated injury in Italy’s Criminal Court of Pistoia and sentenced to incarceration for one year, one month and 26 days.
He will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.
Noncitizens placed into removal proceedings receive their legal due process from federal immigration judges in the immigration courts, which are administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). EOIR is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice and is separate from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case. ICE officers carry out the removal decisions made by the federal immigration judges.
In fiscal year 2023, ERO made 170,590 administrative arrests, a 19.5% increase over the previous year. ERO arrested 73,822 noncitizens with a criminal history; those arrested had an average of four charges and convictions per individual, including more than 33,209 charges or convictions for assault, 7,520 for weapons offenses, 1,713 for homicide-related offenses, and 1,615 for kidnapping. Removals also included 3,406 known or suspected gang members, 139 known or suspected terrorists, seven human rights violators, and 108 foreign fugitives wanted by their governments for crimes including homicide, rape, terrorism and kidnapping. Also in fiscal year 2023, ERO conducted 142,580 removals to more than 170 countries worldwide.
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