As a part of their ongoing efforts to crackdown on unlawful immigration within the Bay State, Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they’ve apprehended a pair of males already convicted of significant crimes and beforehand deported from the U.S.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removing Operations Boston workplace says they’ve apprehended Dairo Mejia, a Colombian nationwide, and Alexander Luis Vides-Reyes, a Honduran man they are saying is a member of MS-13, and that each had been discovered dwelling unlawfully within the U.S. after previous removing proceedings.
Each males had been additionally beforehand been convicted for a couple of felony act, in response to ICE.
“Mejia’s criminal history includes convictions for conspiracy to distribute heroin and RMV forgery in Boston, MA. Mejia has been previously removed from the U.S. and remains in ICE custody pending removal,” the company introduced by way of social media.
Vides-Reyes’s previous felony historical past “includes a conviction for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and charges for two counts domestic assault and leaving the scene of an accident,” the company wrote.
ICE operations have ramped up in Massachusetts in latest months, with greater than 1,500 individuals arrested by immigration brokers throughout a surge of enforcement in Could.
A second surge, formally dubbed “Operation Patriot 2.0,” was launched earlier this month because of “the sanctuary policies here within the Commonwealth, specifically like the city of Boston,” in response to ICE/ERO Deputy Director David Wesling.
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