News Releases and Statements

Daily removals and enforcement returns are nearly double what they were compared to the pre-pandemic average (2014-2019).

ICE's ERO El Paso deportation officers removed an unlawfully present El Salvadoran national Dec. 15 wanted in his home country for aggravated extortion.

Ramon Alvarez-Hernandez, 40, of El Salvador, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm. HSI and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department investigated the case.

In keeping with standard practice, the United States ensures that all noncitizens without a legal basis to remain in the United States are properly screened for valid protection claims and withholding of removal in accordance with our laws and U.S. international obligations.

Emeterio Contreras Martinez, 37, a citizen of Mexico, was transported Dec. 13 from the Nye Detention Facility in Pahrump, Nevada, arriving the same day in San Diego, where he was driven to the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Upon arrival at the border, Silva was turned over to local authorities in Mexico.

ERO Harlingen removed Juan Carlos Pena Escobar, 46, a citizen of El Salvador with a final order of removal, to El Salvador via an ICE Air Operations charter aircraft.

ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela from December 11 - 13.

An unlawfully present Mexican man and previously convicted sexual predator pleaded guilty to illegal reentry in November 2023 and will serve a 42-month sentence in an Indiana Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.

The 41-year-old Salvadoran unlawfully entered the United States on an unknown date and at an unknown location without being admitted or inspected by an immigration official. Local authorities arrested him in Everett in September 2021.

Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested a Honduran noncitizen and member of MS-13 Dec. 12 in Hyattsville, Maryland, who was convicted of killing a Maryland resident in 2016.

Deportation officers removed Raul Herbert Manyari-Castellares from the United States to Peru Dec. 8. Peruvian authorities took custody of him upon his arrival.

Jose Omar Rodriguez, 34, departed Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana and arrived at San Salvador International Airport in El Salvador.

Ferosa Bluff, 52, was transferred to ERO custody from the Utah State Prison Nov. 28.

ICE, working in coordination with DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, South Korea and Venezuela from December 4 – 8.

ERO Baltimore apprehended an undocumented noncitizen who was previously removed from the United States following his conviction for fleeing the scene of a motor vehicle accident that caused a U.S. Marine’s death.

Daniel Luis Ibarra-Lopez, 25, was transported from Las Vegas, Nevada, to the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California, via ground transportation. Upon arrival, he was turned over to the proper authorities in Mexico.

ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present female foreign fugitive who is wanted by law enforcement authorities after being convicted of assaulting and threatening a minor child in Brazil. Officers in Worcester, Massachusetts, apprehended the 35-year-old citizen of Brazil Nov. 30.

Since May 12, nearly 13,000 Venezuelan nationals have been removed or returned and, because the United States recently resumed direct repatriation flights to Venezuela, this number will continue to grow in the coming months.

Since March 2019, a criminal court in the city of Resplendor, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has been seeking custody of the Brazilian national to serve an eight-year prison sentence on a felony charge of aggravated rape in Brazil that he was convicted of by that court.

The French national entered the United States in July 2014 as a visa waiver visitor authorized to stay until October 2014. However, he failed to depart the United States, violating the terms of admission for the visa waiver program.

ICE ERO Philadelphia removed Felipe Javier Rivero Blanco, a citizen of Venezuela with a final order of removal, to Venezuela on Dec. 1.

The 40-year-old citizen of Romania has an extensive criminal history in the United States and in multiple European nations.

ERO New York City’s Long Island suboffice arrested the 29-year-old unlawfully present noncitizen without incident in Garden City and transported him to the Central Islip suboffice for processing.

The 35-year-old Guatemalan had previously been voluntarily returned to Guatemala after having unlawfully entered the United States in 2007.

Cesar Antiono Rafael Lopez, 22, was flown to Guatemala and turned over to local authorities.