Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests another illegal immigrant charged with child sex crimes in Boston just as Massachusetts’ governor says he will not cooperate with the incoming Trump administration’s mass deportation operation did.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston announced earlier this month that it had arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant on October 29th. He had been arrested by Boston police on charges of enticing a child under 16, distributing obscene materials, and lewd acts. A naked child is posed and exhibited.
ICE filed a motion to detain the illegal immigrants and requested that they be held until ICE was able to detain them, but the detainees were not respected by local authorities and were released from custody. The man, Mateo Hincapie Cardona, was encountered by Border Patrol agents in Arizona in April and released on his own recognizance.
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“This individual has been charged with committing a heinous crime against a child, which makes him a clear threat to our Massachusetts community,” said Patricia Hyde, ERO Boston Field Office Director. It shows that there is.”
This is one of many cases in which ICE’s Boston unit has had to pursue illegal immigrants released from local custody in the city and surrounding areas. They argue that “sanctuary” jurisdictions typically do not respect ICE detainees and that doing so encourages undocumented immigrants to come forward and cooperate with police if they are victims or witnesses of a crime. are. Although Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state because it does not have a sanctuary law, many cities, including Boston, are sanctuary cities.
In September, ICE announced the arrest of an undocumented Salvadoran immigrant who was charged with multiple sex crimes against children. He was one of a number of “egregious” illegal immigrant sex offenders caught in the Nantucket operation.
That same month, ICE announced the arrest of a “fugitive” immigrant in Lynn, Massachusetts. He had been charged with rape, indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 18, but was released on bail without notifying immigration authorities.
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Mateo Hincapi Cardona, 28, is currently being held pending release proceedings.
In August, ICE arrested an undocumented Brazilian immigrant in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and charged him with assault and rape, indecent assault and battery, and domestic assault and battery in Massachusetts.
A law enforcement official confirmed to Fox News that a local bail commissioner granted him bail even though he had an outstanding domestic violence warrant for his arrest.
In March, FOX News interviewed ICE agents in Boston and witnessed the arrests of five people, including four child rape suspects and an MS-13 member. MS-13 is a group of potentially dangerous criminals that officers say are allowed on the streets because of local sanctuary policies. He refused the authorities’ request to be detained.
Todd Lyons, director of ERO’s Boston field office, praised the efforts of local officials to keep potential threats to communities off the streets, but called Boston’s sanctuary policy “frustrating” and the agency’s He admitted that it has become more difficult to carry out his duties.
However, these sanctuary policies are likely to come into greater focus with the Trump administration taking office.
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said the state police would “absolutely not” assist in efforts to deport officers, hinting at possible action against her administration.
“You have to be aware of some realities. It’s 2016, we have a different landscape in the courts, and I’m sure there will be cases in the future. People are going to act. There are many other ways we need to act for the sake of our state and our residents,” Healy said. “There are regulatory powers, administrative powers, etc., and there are laws within the state.
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“So I think the important thing here is that every tool in the toolbox has to be used to protect the people, to protect the population, to protect the country, to protect democracy and the rule of law. This is the basic principle. ”
ICE Boston officials were unimpressed by Healy’s comments.
“Governor Healey’s sanctuary policies protect criminals and put law enforcement officers at risk every day,” they said. “Her policies do not protect the residents of the communities she is sworn to serve.”
