In yet more big news for those who want to see sanctuary jurisdictions cracked down upon and the illegal aliens within them detained and deported despite the best efforts of the Democratic mayors, governors, and bureaucrats who have done so much to protect them, ICE arrested an illegal alien connected to Tren de Aragua who was working as a teacher in Illinois.
Such is what the Department of Homeland Security revealed in a press release, noting that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had arrested a 32-year-old woman named Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti. She was let into America by Biden’s Administration in 2021.
Occhipinti is an illegal alien from Venezuela who had dual citizenship in Italy, and who was working as a teacher in the deep blue state of Illinois. She is also connected to Tren de Aragua, as in 2024 she drove two TdA shooters wo a house party they attacked in Chicago, a shooting that left three dead and more injured.
According to the press release, Occhipinti’s vehicle was investigated by the police immediately after the crime, and they discovered multiple weapons in it, deducing that she had not onlly driven them to the attack, but also had helped the two shooters, Granadillo Padilla and Martinez Cermeno, evade law enforcement officers after the shooting. Both of those alleged shooters were, however, later detained and deported.
That then led to her being arrested by the Chicago Police Department, which detained her on December 5. She was, however, released by the Chicago Police despite their knowledge that she aided in the horrible attack, as the sanctuary jurisdiction does its best to not detain illegal aliens for ICE.
But while the police were unwilling to deal with her, as the Cook County State Attorney’s office refused to criminally prosecute her, in large part due to her immigration status, HSI stepped into the breach and took action to ensure that the TdA-connected woman could not remain a threat to her community. HSI Chicago’s Human Trafficking and Smuggling Group agents arrested her on May 13.
Commenting on the matter, Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said, “This illegal alien who used to work as a teacher was involved in a mass shooting in Chicago that killed three people and injured others. Although Chicago police arrested this illegal alien shortly after the shooting, sanctuary politicians released her from jail without notifying ICE.”
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Continuing, Bis added, “Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS is doing the job that sanctuary politicians in Illinois refuse to do: putting the American people first and removing these dangerous criminals from our communities.”
Similarly, HSI Chicago Special Agent in Charge Matthew Scarpino said, commenting on the horrible crime that the illegal alien is accused of committing, “Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti’s actions were calculated and deliberate, leading to the loss of three lives. I’m proud of our agents for pursuing this case to the end, ensuring that everyone who helped facilitate this mass homicide is brought to justice.”
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