News Releases and Statements

Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program took the 19-year-old noncitizen into custody at his residence in Hyattsville on Aug. 2 and served him with papers ordering him to appear before an immigration judge.

Edwin Kelly-Espinoza, 21, was flown to Honduras on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit.

ERO Chicago’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested an unlawfully present Venezuelan national Aug. 8, 2023.

This IFR permits ICE to conduct an entirely electronic transaction with obligors posting bonds online when enrolling in ICE’s electronic bond systems.

The efforts targeted noncitizens residing in Mississippi who have public safety arrests or convictions and those with a final order of removal and no pending appeals.

On Aug. 2, ERO Baltimore apprehended a Nigerian national who has been convicted of rape in the second degree and a third-degree sex offense against a Maryland minor. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Criminal Apprehension Program took the 37-year-old noncitizen into custody outside his residence in Lanham.

ERO Boston apprehended a noncitizen native of the United Kingdom and member of a transnational criminal organization known as the Traveling Conman Fraud Group on July 24.

This policy applies to all noncitizens regardless of nationality to ensure the orderly and humane processing, transfer, and removal of single adults, family units, and others determined to be removeable.

Deportation officers arrested the 35-year-old Brazilian national in Medford following notification that she is a foreign fugitive.

ERO New York City removed Jorge Enrique Mogrovejo, an unlawfully present noncitizen wanted in Ecuador for the rape of a minor on July 13.

The noncitizen, who first entered the United States unlawfully in August 2003, has a 20-year criminal history that includes convictions for disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, illegal reentry and criminal trespassing.

ICE announced today THS for single adults, family units, and children. The new standards outline the requirements for housing noncitizens at temporary stay site for 72 hours or less. The THS are broadly modeled after ICE’s national detention standards, however they are tailored to the context and limitations of a hotel setting.

DHS' ICE and CBP facilitated the recent removal of family units to Central America as part of dozens of other routine ICE removal flights conducted throughout the hemisphere and around the world.

ERO officers escorted Jose Ramon Barcenas Diaz, 34, from Omaha, Nebraska, to a port of entry where he was removed from the United States and transferred to Mexican authorities.

ERO Boston removed Fulvio Alexandre Oliveira Silva, 42, to Brazil on July 20 via ICE Air Operations after he received a final order of removal from a U.S. immigration judge.

The 39-year-old Salvadoran national had been previously removed from the United States following an April 2022 conviction for a third-degree sex offense in Baltimore County.

Jesus Manuel Galvez-Rivas, 22, is wanted in Mexico for sexting and corruption of minors. He flew from Denver International Airport to San Diego International Airport. Then, ERO San Diego International Liaison Unit officials removed him from the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Ysidro, California, and turned him over to Mexican authorities.

The 35-year-old native of Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, is wanted by law enforcement authorities for felony charges of child abuse, crimes against children and abduction in Guatemala. He is the subject of a Red Notice issued by Interpol, the international criminal police organization.

On July 20, ERO Boston removed Thiago Jorge-Alves, 37, an unlawfully present Brazilian fugitive wanted for drug trafficking in Brazil.

The 21-year-old noncitizen unlawfully entered the United States on an unknown date at an unknown location. U.S. Border Patrol encountered him Dec. 25, 2021, near Hidalgo, Texas, served him with a notice to appear, and transferred him to ICE custody.

On an unknown date at an unknown location, the noncitizen illegally entered the United States without being inspected, admitted or paroled by an immigration officer. On Aug. 29, 2022, the Nassau County Court convicted him of sexual abuse first degree: contact by forcible compulsion.

Deportation officers from ICE ERO Washington, D.C. removed Josue Salvador Hernandez-Portillo, an undocumented Salvadoran national, from the United States to El Salvador on July 14. Hernandez-Portillo was wanted by authorities in his home country for deprivation of liberty and aggravated homicide.

Patrick Connors, 31, was admitted into the United States in August 2021 and violated the terms of his admission when he failed to depart by November 2021. Law enforcement officials in Ireland and the United States identified Connors as a member of a transnational criminal organization called the Traveling Conmen Fraud Group. ERO Boston arrested him in Billerica, near Boston.

Ion Marius Paun, 30, is wanted in Romania for the violation of domicile and for violating a protection order.

ERO officers escorted Saul Ceniceros Santoyo, 27, from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport to Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas, on July 11. Ceniceros was then transported to the Laredo, Texas, port of entry where he was removed from the United States and transferred to Mexican authorities on July 12.