In huge news for those watching the Trump Administration and hoping it follows through on its pronounced plans to fight illegal immigration with a vengeance and slam the border shut, officers with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston just captured an illegal immigrant who is an MS-13 gang member in Boston and has indicated it will deport him.
Such is what ICE announced in a statement released on Wednesday, January 29. “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an illegally present 19-year-old Guatemalan gang member charged with drug and weapons crimes. Officers from ICE ERO Boston arrested Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez in Boston Jan. 22,” the statement said.
Continuing, the statement noted that the captured illegal had been arrested while crossing the border illegally in 2021, but then was let go under the Biden Administration. Though ordered removed, he was just discovered and arrested in Boston. Beginning that portion of the statement provided, “U.S. Border Patrol arrested Guerra on March 21, 2021, after he illegally entered the United States at the Southern Border.”
Adding to that story, the statement then noted that it wasn’t until three years later that the gang member was ordered deported, saying, “Authorities with USBP issued Guerra a Notice to Appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge. ERO Dallas released Guerra on an Order of Recognizance May 8, 2021. On Oct 2, 2024, a DOJ immigration judge ordered Guerra removed from the United States to Guatemala.”
He apparently was not removed, as then, just weeks later, he was arraigned for serious crimes, mainly involving firearms. The statement said, “The East Boston District Court arraigned Guerra Jan. 3 for the offenses of possession of a large capacity weapon/firearm, possession of class D controlled substance, possession of firearm without permit and possession of ammunition.”
Concluding, the statement noted that the violent gang member is now in custody despite Boston trying to set him free before ICE could take him. It said, “ICE ERO Boston issued an immigration detainer against Guerra with the Nashua Street Jail in Boston Jan. 6; however, the East Boston District Court ignored the immigration detainer and ordered Guerra released from custody Jan. 21. Officers from ERO Boston arrested Guerra in Boston, Massachusetts Jan 22. He remains in ERO custody.”
Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde was quoted in the statement as noting that the captured illegal was a member of a violent gang who obviously had no respect for American laws, saying, “Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez is an illegally present gang member, who has shown complete disregard for American laws.”
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Continuing, she said, “He is a member of a violent street gang charged with illegally possessing a high-capacity firearm and drugs. We will not tolerate such offenders to threaten the residents of our New England neighborhoods. ERO Boston will continue to arrest and remove egregious alien offenders from our communities.”
Describing its mission in the statement, ICE’s ERO said, “ERO conducts removals of individuals without a lawful basis to remain in the United States, including at the order of immigration judges with the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. EOIR is a separate entity from DHS and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case, determining if a noncitizen is subject to a final order of removal or eligible for certain forms of relief from removal.”
It added, “As one of ICE’s three operational directorates, ERO is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement. ERO’s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S. communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency’s detained and non-detained populations, and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal. ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border.”