News Releases and Statements

ICE's ERO today announced a process for family units apprehended at the southwest border who are processed for expedited removal and indicate an intention to apply for asylum or express a fear of persecution or torture.

ICE took targeted enforcement action against removable noncitizens, including those with a final order of removal, who present a danger to communities and have known or suspected roles in human rights violations during a nationwide operation, April 24-28.

The foreign national, who is facing local criminal charges of possession with intent to distribute narcotics, was previously removed from the U.S. three times for unlawfully entering the country.

He is wanted by Brazilian authorities to serve a 12-year sentence for aggravated murder.

Marco Antonio Vigil Argueta illegally entered the United States on an unknown date and at an unknown location.

ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present citizen of the Dominican Republic in Chestnut Hill on April 27. The Dominican national was previously convicted in U.S. federal court of possession and distribution of fentanyl.

ERO Boston arrested a foreign fugitive in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 2 who is wanted by Brazilian law enforcement authorities for a drug trafficking conviction.

U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Cruz Miguel Aguina, 40, to eight months in prison following a guilty plea to immigration fraud. Aguina was also judicially denaturalized as a U.S. citizen.

During the first half of FY 2023, DHS increased removals and returns to 225,483, up from 170,896 over the same period in FY 2022. The FY 2023 figures includes nearly 66,000 removals, 48,381 of which were conducted via ICE removal flights and are in addition to CBP total southwest land border Title 42 expulsions, which reached 1,079,507 in that same timeframe.

Armando Cesar Zacarias, 37, is accused of starting a fire and robbing the Itapuense Municipality in Paraguay.

Officers with ICE's ERO Seattle removed Omer Abdi Mohamed, 38, a citizen of Somalia convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, to his home country April 28.

Victor Manuel Romero-Diaz, 40, of El Salvador, received his conviction at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond April 14.

The Brazilian national, who is wanted for the Brazilian offense of fraud/use of false document, has been unlawfully present in the United States since his visa expired in November 2016.

ERO New York City removed Gina Zhou, 35, to the Marshall Islands April 18.

The man, 39, entered the U.S. lawfully in July 2021 and remained after his visa expired.

ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer seeking his custody with the Brockton, Massachusetts District Court and the Plymouth County House of Correction on April 4.

The efforts targeted noncitizens who have public safety arrests or convictions with a final order of removal and no pending appeals. They also targeted noncitizens released from Orleans Parish where immigration detainers were not honored.

The technology demonstration will begin with a limited deployment in Denver to test feasibility in an operational setting.

The Riverside Police Department arrested Miguel Vargas, 38, on Oct. 25, 2014, and the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, subsequently convicted him in February of 2017 for related felony charges.

ERO Boston officers encountered the Brazilian national in the town of Milford, Massachusetts. ERO Boston determined that the individual was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to nine years of incarceration by a criminal court in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in June 2017.

ERO officers in Hartford discovered that the unlawfully present individual was wanted since May 2022 by law enforcement authorities in Westmoreland, Jamaica, on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

The man, identified by law enforcement authorities as affiliated with the 18th Street Salvadoran criminal gang organization, is wanted on charges of aggravated extortion and participation in a terrorist organization by Salvadoran law enforcement in Guazapa, El Salvador.

This web-based system provides a fully automated, online capability to request verification of bond eligibility, make cash immigration bond payments, and send electronic notifications to cash bond obligors.

The Brazilian national is currently charged with carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, and possession of ammunition without a firearms identification card.

A recent ERO Baltimore operation apprehended two unlawfully present noncitizens who were convicted of sex offenses in Maryland.