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Immigration and customs control (ICE) has arrested a Dominican illegal immigrant accused of sex crimes and kidnapping in Boston, after he was released from local custody despite the agency’s extradition request.
In a statement, ICE said it had arrested Emilio José Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old man, on charges of assault by rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and assault on a person 14 years of age or older and intimidation of a person. officer, witness or juror, was arrested on December 17 in Boston.
Pena-Casilla illegally entered the United States near Eagle Pass, Texas, in January 2023 and enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program. Under this program, migrants are monitored by a GPS tracking device or registered through an app. He was removed from the show a month later.
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In July of this year, he was tried in Massachusetts. ICE says yes Execution and deletion operations (ERO) in Boston issued an arrest warrant, but the district court overruled it and he was released on GPS bail. ICE would eventually track him down in December.
“Emilio José Pena-Casilla is accused of some very serious crimes against a Massachusetts resident,” Acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde of ERO Boston said in a statement. “We have a sacred duty to protect the residents of our communities, and we will continue to do so by capturing and removing non-citizen criminals from our neighborhoods. Today, another victim in Massachusetts need no longer fear their predator.”
Boston is one of a number of “sanctuary” cities that limit or prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. Supporters of sanctuary policies say they allow illegal immigrants to cooperate with local law enforcement, but opponents say they lead to the release of criminal illegal immigrants onto the streets.
Boston City Council recently doubled down on its sanctuary policies, voting in favor of a resolution to limit ICE cooperation and to prohibit police from detaining migrants for possible deportation unless there is a warrant penalty
The resolution approved by the council states that “the proposed mass deportations represent a direct attack on Boston’s immigrant families and threaten to tear communities apart.”
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Sanctuary policies are back in the spotlight with the approach of the Trump administration, which has promised to increase deportations and launch a historic operation to remove potentially millions of illegal immigrants.
Several Democratic state officials, including Massachusetts, have said they will not cooperate in the deportation push. President-elect Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has hinted that there could be legal consequences for those who stand in the way of the operation.
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recently, America First Legal notified nearly 250 officials in jurisdictions that limit or prohibit local cooperation with ICE that there could be legal consequences for interfering with the feds or harboring illegal immigrants.
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“We have identified their jurisdiction as jurisdiction of the sanctuary that violates federal law. This illegality subjects you and your subordinates to a significant risk of civil and criminal liability. Accordingly, we are sending this letter to warn you of this risk and to insist that you comply with our nation’s laws,” the letter reads.