Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a child rapist from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brazil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brazil</a>, who entered the United States illegally after he was convicted of raping a five-year-old child in 2019 and sentenced to serve 14 years in prison.
According to a <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-apprehends-brazilian-sex-offender-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston on Monday, the Brazilian national was identified as 37-year-old Saulo Cardona Ferreira — and he is currently &#8220;wanted by authorities in his home country for failure to serve a prison sentence.&#8221;
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ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons issued a statement on the arrest, which reportedly took place on November 14: &#8220;This undocumented Brazilian national represented a significant threat to the inhabitants of Martha’s Vineyard. He sexually assaulted a five-year-old child in his homeland and then ran from authorities when held accountable for his actions. ERO Boston will not allow such predators to threaten our residents. We will continue to apprehend and remove anyone who attempts to use our New England community as a refuge from justice.&#8221;
A warrant was issued for Ferreira&#8217;s arrest in May of 2019 by the 2nd Criminal Court of Sorriso (in Sorriso, Mato Grosso, Brazil) when he did not show up to serve his sentence — and according to ICE, he came to the United States sometime after that.
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&#8220;The undocumented noncitizen unlawfully entered the United States on an unknown date at an unknown location without being inspected or admitted by an immigration official,&#8221; the report read, meaning that Ferreira must have come into the United States without going through an official checkpoint or having any contact with immigration and Border Patrol officials.
Law enforcement reportedly learned of Ferreira&#8217;s presence in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard in late September, and eventually apprehended him during a traffic stop. ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team made the arrest, and will keep him in custody until he appears before an immigration judge.
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According to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-arrests-brazilian-illegal-immigrant-child-rapist-in-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Fox News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has confirmed some 600,000 &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayorkas-admits-600k-gotaways-illegally-entered-u-s-in-fy-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gotaways</a>&#8221; — illegal immigrants who entered the United States without going through official checkpoints or making any contact with Border Patrol officers — in fiscal year 2023 alone, and nearly 1,000 per day since then.

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A twice deported<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> illegal alien</a> from Honduras was charged with murder in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> after a man was found in a burnt out vehicle in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a>. 
Kevin Castro-Garcia was <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/arrest-homicide-man-found-burned-vehicle-franklin-limestone-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> in the murder of 37-year-old Elmer Nahum Miranda-Martinez whose body police said they found in the trunk of a car that had been set on fire in a “wooded area” in Nashville. On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-places-detainer-twice-removed-twice-charged-homicide-suspect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that they had placed an immigration detainer on Castro-Garcia. 
“This unlawfully present Honduran national is a threat to the safety of our local communities. He is a gang member with Sur 13, a transnational criminal organization. ERO New Orleans will pursue all possible criminal and administrative avenues to see that he is prosecuted and removed from our local community,” said ERO New Orleans Field Office Director Mellissa Harper in a statement. “ERO has removed him twice from the United States and yet he continues to choose to violate our laws. Castro-Garcia must answer for his continued disregard for the laws of this country.”
The detainer will require state or local law enforcement to notify ICE before releasing Castro-Garcia from custody. He is currently being held in Davidson County Jail. 
Castro-Garcia was first encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in June 2002 near Laredo, Texas, when he was about 10-years-old, according to an ICE email sent to The Daily Wire. Days later he was released into his parents&#8217; custody by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Three years later, a judge in Texas ruled that Castro-Garcia be deported from the U.S. after he did not show up to a removal hearing, ICE said. 
It was not until five years later, in October 2010, that the ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) New Orleans Fugitive team in Nashville, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) located and arrested Castro-Garcia. 
Castro-Garcia was identified as a member of the “Sur 13” gang and affiliated with “Surenos Locos Criminales” before he was then sent back to Honduras in November 2010.
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In October 2018, Border Patrol again arrested Castro-Garcia at the border, this time near Hidalgo, Texas, where he was again ordered to be deported. In March 2019, ICE again flew Castro-Garcia back to Honduras.
At some point later, Castro-Garcia entered the U.S. illegally for a third time, but ICE says it does not know when or where he entered. 
On September 27, the body of Miranda-Martinez was found in a smoldering car by a worker looking to clear brush. An affidavit from MNPD says that a source had told them that Castro-Garcia had said he committed the murder. 
The arrest comes as Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/twice-deported-gang-member-charged-in-mysterious-case-of-burned-body-discovered-in-smoldering-car/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a complaint against DHS and ICE over reported plans from the Biden administration to release illegal immigrants into Tennessee.

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Had the Aguilar-Borrayo brothers never engaged in an alleged machete fight last Friday night, then law enforcement officials might have never known that the three illegal aliens were living in Waltham, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts</a>, at all.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say that 27-year-old Osman Aguilar-Borrayo, 21-year-old Kevin Aguilar-Borrayo, and 19-year-old Bryan Aguilar-Borrayo, were arrested last Friday around 6:30 p.m. Osman was arrested for armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery on a pregnant woman, assault, battery with a dangerous weapon, and mayhem, <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/18/machete-fight-leads-to-ice-capture-of-3-illegal-immigrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Boston Herald. His two younger brothers were arrested on mayhem charges.
ICE told <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/18/machete-fight-leads-to-ice-capture-of-3-illegal-immigrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Herald</a> that all three crossed the southern border unlawfully and were given a court date for immigration hearings. They never showed up. 
Now they face deportation after ICE detained all three after they posted bail.
How many more men like the Aguilar-Borrayo brothers are out there? Well, it&#8217;s hard to say.
Millions have flooded the country in the past two and a half years alone. Deportations have been at <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/jim-jordan-ice-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record lows</a> for much of the Biden presidency.
In fact, the Biden administration has made it a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-deportation-a03ef5cc1b5468b396c0ff4688ff186d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">priority to only deport</a> &#8220;criminal&#8221; illegal aliens. So, rather than be proactive and deport all illegal aliens, authorities are advised to wait for illegal aliens to commit crimes before nabbing them. If those illegal aliens don&#8217;t get busted for committing crimes, then they&#8217;re virtually able to stay forever.
In April of 2023, it was reported that the immigration system is so overwhelmed, there is a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-wait-54bb5f7c18c4c37c6ca7f28231ff0edf">10-year waiting list</a> for illegal aliens to appear in court. By that time, it&#8217;s likely that the D.C. Establishment will have passed an amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens in the country already.
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Once illegal immigrants are in the country, they&#8217;re hard to track down — even if they are given a free <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-defends-giving-smartphones-to-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smartphone</a> and told to pinky-promise they&#8217;ll come back for their court date.
So, that means that men like the Aguilar-Borrayo bros are able to travel all the way from Texas up to Massachusetts undetected — until they start hacking pregnant women with machetes in an &#8220;alleged&#8221; neighborly dispute, then that starts to draw attention. Talk about brotherly love.
There are two words for Biden&#8217;s immigration policies: No bueno.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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El Salvador&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on violent criminals, which has seen thousands of suspected gang members locked up in a new mega-prison, could prompt those still free to flee the embattled nation, experts warned.
Late last month, officials transferred thousands of prisoners to the country&#8217;s new maximum security prison in central El Salvador, the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca. On Wednesday, another 2,000 prisoners were <a href="https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gang-crackdown-prison-state-of-emergency-d95e1fcd5b806c38077ffb060c8c2f48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">locked</a> in the new prison, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates.
Striking video footage showed lines of shirtless, heavily-tattooed prisoners with shaved heads running bent over and handcuffed as they were moved to the new prison facility.
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🇸🇻 | Nayib Bukele, con mano dura somete a miles de pandilleros y criminales que antes aterrorizaban a la población de El Salvador. ¿Estás de acuerdo con el trato que les da el Presidente Bukele a los delincuentes? <a href="https://t.co/iJQWWr5akt">pic.twitter.com/iJQWWr5akt</a>
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“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-gang-crackdown-prison-state-of-emergency-d95e1fcd5b806c38077ffb060c8c2f48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> El Salvador&#8217;s justice minister Gustavo Villatoro.
While more gang members behind bars is presumably a good thing for El Salvador, the crackdown has pushed the gangs north.
Some leaders of the infamously violent MS-13 gang have already fled to Mexico.
&#8220;We know that they are in Mexico, and that from there they are giving instructions in a cowardly manner,” the El Salvador justice minister <a href="https://ticotimes.net/2022/06/22/el-salvador-continues-crackdown-on-gangs-as-leaders-flee-to-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Mexican authorities have also reported a larger presence of gang members associated with El Salvador like MS-13 and their rival, the 18th Street gang over the past year. At least three public transportation drivers in Mexico <a href="https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-mexico-guatemala-crime-bbebd03f8d7c28dc2d4e40faac5d1844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were recently shot</a> to death by Salvadoran gangs, who have begun terrorizing and extorting the drivers.
“If we don’t do anything we’re going to be a little (El) Salvador,” one of the Mexican drivers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-mexico-guatemala-crime-bbebd03f8d7c28dc2d4e40faac5d1844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
El Salvador&#8217;s gang members and leaders are always trying to get into the U.S., warns Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.
&#8220;They can make more money here and enjoy themselves more here, and there are many new places for them to set up shop for the gang, and many vulnerable youth to recruit,&#8221; Vaughan told The Daily Wire.
MS-13 <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/file/958481/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had</a> more than 10,000 members in the U.S in 2017.
If El Salvador&#8217;s war on gangs does drive gangs up to the southern U.S. border, they will be met by the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-chief-says-dhs-doesnt-have-operational-control-us-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overwhelmed</a> border forces and likely have little trouble sneaking into the country.
&#8220;Right now it&#8217;s not difficult for them to get in,&#8221; Vaughan said. &#8220;There is much less threat of border and interior enforcement than in prior years, especially if they have not been in the United States before.&#8221;
If gang members have previously been deported from the U.S., they have to keep a lower profile to avoid the risk of being criminally charged and removed again.
&#8220;It would be smarter for them to go to another country, but MS-13 members are not known for being smart,&#8221; Vaughan said.
In recent years, MS-13 operatives have engaged in human smuggling and served as protection for the drug cartels. Their new presence in Mexico could exacerbate an already dangerous environment.
&#8220;That is a tricky business, because they would have to have a relationship with a cartel, with all the risk and volatility that would bring, not to mention even more involvement in violence,&#8221; Vaughan said. &#8220;Adding MS-13 to the organized crime mix in Mexico is likely to make the situation even more volatile, because they are usually aggressive and brazen in trying to carve out a niche to operate and audacious in competing with other crime organizations.&#8221;
With <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-opens-40000-person-prison-arrests-soar-gang-crackdown-2023-02-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 2%</a> of the adult population incarcerated, El Salvador is one of the most crime-ridden countries in the world. The government crackdown on gangs — which Vaughan notes is a &#8220;regular cycle&#8221; in El Salvador — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/30/el-salvador-bukele-state-emergency-homicides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began</a> a year ago when the government declared a state of emergency as the country battled a spike in murders. 
Since then, about 65,000 people have been arrested as part of the operation as the state of emergency was repeatedly extended. Human rights advocates have expressed concerns that the government&#8217;s approach veers authoritarian — about 57,000 of those arrested are still waiting to be formally charged and face a trial. 
Meanwhile, though, citizens have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-vows-gang-crackdown-will-go-citizens-cheer-safer-streets-2023-02-15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> El Salvador&#8217;s streets becoming safer, and murders have plummeted by about half.

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A trio of federal law enforcement agencies have reportedly worked together to strip dozens of Americans of their gun rights through secretive plea agreements and a form not authorized by Congress.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> stripped at least 60 people of their right to firearms between 2011 and 2019, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-secret-service-plea-agreement-stripping-defendant-of-gun-rights-secretly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. In at least one case, the FBI and Secret Service worked with a federal prosecutor to pressure a defendant into signing his gun rights away as a condition for a legal agreement.
“Dear Agent [redacted], You will find enclosed the NICS firearm form which has been signed by my client and his doctor. This is being provided in compliance with [redacted] plea agreement. Yours sincerely,” an attorney’s letter to a Secret Service agent on June 10, 2019, said according to the Examiner.
The letter was obtained by the gun rights group Gun Owners of America through a Freedom of Information Act request. It’s unclear what the defendant was charged with or why the FBI and Secret Service were involved. The case number on the letter was redacted.
The form that effectively strips signatories of their gun rights registers them in the FBI&#8217;s National Instant Criminal Background Check System and labels them as a “danger” to themselves. It also says they lack the “mental capacity adequately to contract” their lives, according to the Examiner.
“There&#8217;s a bit of a contradiction,” attorney Gilbert Ambler, who specializes in firearms law, told the Examiner. “They&#8217;re having you agree you&#8217;re incompetent. If you&#8217;re incompetent, how is that a binding agreement?”
Republicans in the House have said that reports of federal law enforcement pressuring Americans to give up their gun rights warrants investigation. Lawmakers say that such pressure appears to be unconstitutional.
“Americans can&#8217;t simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI,” Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/fbi-used-secret-powers-to-strip-more-americans-of-their-gun-rights-documents-reveal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in December. “As Republicans enter a House majority, we must use our investigative power to put a check on federal agencies who have proven to be eager and willing to crack down on Americans&#8217; right to keep and bear arms.”
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Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-connection-fbi-stripping-gun-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made</a> similar comments last year.
“We’ve said all along we’re going to do investigations in a way that’s consistent with the Constitution,” said Jordan. “We’re going to do them aggressively. And there is nothing off the table when it comes to getting the facts and the truth for the American people on all these issues that fall under the broad category of politics at the DOJ.”

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The New York City office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly booked through 2032 with appointments to handle migrants who entered the country illegally.
The ICE office is “fully booked through October 2032,” according to an official ICE document <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/nyc-ice-office-fully-booked-for-migrant-appointments-through-late-2032/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by The New York Post.
The Biden administration has released into the country more than 802,300 migrants apprehended at the southern border in the last two years from March 2021 to last month, the February 18 ICE document shows.
The New York City office is the most backlogged by far with more than 39,200 migrant appointments scheduled as of February 13, according to the ICE document.
Jacksonville, Florida, is the second most clogged office with nearly 2,700 migrant appointments scheduled through June 2028. Another Florida office in Miramar has more than 24,700 migrant appointments through January 2028.
The ICE offices in Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis are all booked at least until 2026.
ICE has not yet commented on the document reviewed by the Post.
For most of 2021, the Biden administration tried requiring migrants to report to their local ICE office, quickly overwhelming the New York City office and many others.
For the last year and change though, ICE has been funneling most migrants released at the border through the Alternatives to Detention <a href="https://www.ice.gov/features/atd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a>, which involves monitoring migrants&#8217; locations through GPS tracking with ankle monitors or an app on their phone.
Migrants who are released at the border or bused to another location are required to visit their local ICE office within 60 days. Only about 44% have done so, and 14% have checked in past the deadline, according to the document. Nearly 290,000 migrants have missed their deadline and have not gone to an ICE office at all.
Last year, several southern Republican governors bused thousands of migrants out of their states to Democrat-run areas including New York City. The move by the governors of Florida, Texas, and Arizona governors to bus migrants out of state was <a href="https://www.fsunews.com/story/opinion/2022/09/25/desantis-political-stunt-using-migrants-gets-justified-backlash/8104054001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">branded</a> &#8220;political theater&#8221; by critics.
In August, Texas Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/06/nyregion/migrant-bus-texas-ny.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> dozens of migrants up to the city, saying New York is “the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city.&#8221;
“I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief,” Abbott said in a statement at the time.
In September, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent about 50 migrants up to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, vacation haven for New York&#8217;s ultra-wealthy, who were promptly loaded on buses less than 48 hours later and removed to Cape Cod military housing.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams griped about the influx of migrants and <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/07/eric-adams-greg-abbott-migrant-busing-emergency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> a state of emergency in October to help deal with the situation.
&#8220;Thousands of asylum seekers have been bused into New York City and simply dropped off, without notice, coordination, or care — and more are arriving every day,&#8221; Adams said at the time, adding that, &#8220;New Yorkers deserve to know why this is happening and what we plan to do.&#8221;

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Assisting with a record flood of people crossing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. southern border</a> strained <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</a> resources as the number of deportations conducted by the agency lagged again in fiscal year 2022.
ICE deployed more than a thousand of its agents to the southern border throughout the year to supplement Customs and Border Patrol with arresting migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally and, in many cases, expelling the migrants immediately from the country under the Title 42 pandemic order, ICE officials told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/12/30/title-42-immigration-ice-arrests-deportation-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>. ICE also sent roughly 300 agents to work on agency priorities internationally.
“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with its colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our shared mission to keep U.S. communities safe,” ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson said in a Friday statement. The agency released its end-of-the-year <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-releases-fy-2022-annual-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Friday.
“ICE’s annual report highlights the efforts of our more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in responding to complex cross-border and domestic threats. We will continue to safeguard national security and public safety while living our core values: integrity, courage, and excellence,” Johnson said.
The deployments took ICE officers away from the agency’s main mission: enforcing U.S. immigration laws in the interior of the country. In end-of-the-year data released Friday, the agency reported arresting roughly double the number of illegal aliens in 2022 from 2021. Deportations also increased, but remained at historical lows.
ICE made about 143,000 arrests in fiscal year 2022, an increase from fiscal year 2021’s roughly 74,000 arrests. Much of the 2022 arrests took place at the U.S. border and involved migrants who had just entered the country.
Deportations conducted by the agency also rose from about 59,000 in 2021 to roughly 72,000 in 2022. Both years lagged far behind the number of deportations executed in fiscal year 2020 when nearly 186,000 illegal aliens were removed from the U.S.
ICE is tracking roughly 4.8 million migrant cases that are being processed in immigration courts, nearly a third more than last year. About 1.2 million aliens have been ordered to leave the country by an immigration court.
The immigration enforcement agency tracks many aliens through “Alternative to Detention” (ATD) programs. ATD was created nearly two decades ago with the goal of removing some aliens from crowded detention facilities, but continuing to monitor them through electronic surveillance or mandatory check-ins with case agents. ICE reported that roughly 321,000 aliens are currently enrolled in such programs.
The agency recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-says-it-cant-find-records-on-nearly-400000-illegal-immigrants-it-should-be-monitoring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had “no records” of aliens enrolled in the program since October 2018. ICE responded to an open records request from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on ATD enrollees with a letter saying that a search for records turned up nothing.
“ICE has conducted a search of the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for records responsive to your request and no records responsive to your request were found,” the agency told TRAC.
TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher vented frustration with the agency’s response in a post on social media: “Just days after announcing that the agency had been misleading to the public for months about how many immigrants were on gps ankle monitors, @icegov claims it can’t find records on over 350,000 immigrants in alternatives to detention program.”

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U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE) has “no records” of hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> it released into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a>.
The Department of Homeland Security agency made its admission in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). TRAC had requested information on 377,980 illegal immigrants in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, according to the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/28/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-illegal-immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Caller News Foundation</a>.
“ICE has conducted a search of the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for records responsive to your request and no records responsive to your request were found,” the agency responded to TRAC’s FOIA.
The ICE ATD program is designed to ensure migrant compliance with court orders while avoiding physical detainment. The agency keeps tabs on migrants through GPS tracking, through ankle monitors or cell phones, and mandatory check-ins with case agents. The program was launched in 2004 to free up space in detention centers while migrants wait for their cases to be processed in crowded immigration courts.
“ICE’s response that they could no longer find records on immigrants in [ATD] that they had previously released came as a shock, particularly after they informed us recently that they had been misleading the public for several months by releasing extremely inaccurate ATD data. The agency really needs to come clean. The American public deserves to have accurate data about the ATD program,” TRAC assistant Professor Austin Kocher told the DCNF.
Kocher said in a social media post on Tuesday: “Just days after announcing that the agency had been misleading to the public for months about how many immigrants were on gps ankle monitors, @icegov claims it can’t find records on over 350,000 immigrants in alternatives to detention program.”
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Just days after announcing that the agency had been misleading to the public for months about how many immigrants were on gps ankle monitors, <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@icegov</a> claims it can’t find records on over 350,000 immigrants in alternatives to detention program.<a href="https://t.co/UVzYiyklLG">https://t.co/UVzYiyklLG</a> <a href="https://t.co/mAJKz9UfPw">pic.twitter.com/mAJKz9UfPw</a>
&mdash; Austin Kocher, PhD (@ackocher) <a href="https://twitter.com/ackocher/status/1607929468810842113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this month, ICE issued an apology after it was revealed to have underreported the number of illegal immigrants it has released into the public without electronic surveillance, such as an ankle bracelet, by more than 18,000%.
“Upon further inspection of what participants were provided against what was publicly available online, it became clear there was a data miscalculation. Teams worked quickly to address and reconcile the issue, now updated on ICE.gov. We regret ICE provided erroneous ATD enrollment data and worked to resolve the miscalculation going forward,” an ICE spokesperson told the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/08/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-data-errors-daily-caller-news-foundation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DCNF</a>.
ICE had reported on its website that 266 illegal migrants had been released from the agency’s custody with no electronic surveillance as of November. At a December 1 event in Washington, D.C., ICE <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/01/biden-ice-border-immigration-reporting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> attendees, which included top agency officials and advocacy group heads, that the number of illegal migrants it had released without electronic surveillance was actually 49,459.
Illegal immigration into the U.S. continues to grow at the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security released data last week showing that last month set a record for the highest number of migrant encounters at the border in the month of November ever. The data <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-november-2022-monthly-operational-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that 233,740 migrants were apprehended by authorities, roughly 60,000 more than in <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-november-2021-monthly-operational-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 2021</a>.

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Tennessee Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Lee</a> said Tuesday that he had been informed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the agency would be transporting &#8220;multiple busloads” of illegal aliens to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volunteer State</a> to await trial. 
Lee said the agency informed him on Monday and called the move “irresponsible.” It is unclear where the detainees will be housed or how many are expected to arrive, but Lee did confirm they would be coming from New Orleans. 
“We’ve been informed by ICE that they plan to release single adult detainees into Tennessee while they await court proceedings. This is irresponsible and a threat to the safety of Tennesseans,” Lee <a href="https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2022/12/20/gov--lee--senators-blackburn-and-hagerty-demand-biden-administration-reverse-plan-to-release-ice-detainees-in-tennessee.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “It’s not compassionate to perpetuate a problem that leads to more exploitation and trafficking.”
Lee said he would demand that the Biden administration reverse course.
“This crisis is too big to ignore, and the only way to stop it is to secure the border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Placing the burden on states is not a solution, and we should not bear the brunt of the federal government’s failures.&#8221;
Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marsha-blackburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marsha Blackburn</a> and Bill Hagerty, both Republicans representing Tennessee, also condemned the plan, with Blackburn accusing the Biden administration of “trafficking illegal immigrants into communities across the country.”
Hagerty referenced the deadly fentanyl being trafficked over the border and the sheer number of unlawful crossings that have occurred in 2022. 
“In the last year, nearly three million migrants have illegally entered the country — a population larger than the largest four cities of Tennessee combined — Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga,&#8221; Hagerty said. &#8220;This does not even include the number of &#8216;gotaway&#8217; migrants who illegally crossed into our country undetected.”  
Tennessee GOP Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2022/12/20/pr22-54.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> his office would explore all options to halt the plan. 
Tennessee was one of the states that <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/20/feds-plan-to-transport-some-migrants-to-tennessee-as-title-42-ends/69744596007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> to extend Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing migrants to be turned away based on concerns over COVID. The rule, which was set to expire on Wednesday, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-key-immigration-policy-title-42-from-ending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> to be extended when the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on its termination. 
Customs and Border Protection officials warned lawmakers that approximately 50,000 foreigners were waiting to cross into the United States once Title 42 ended.

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Kathleen Casillo, a mother of three from Queens, New York, was Christmas shopping with her daughter in Manhattan on December 11, 2020, when she drove up to an intersection filled with protesters blocking the road to oppose U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions.
On Tuesday, Casillo again rejected a plea deal that would admit fault but only require six hours of community service and a one-year license suspension, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11483439/NYC-mother-three-slammed-BLM-protesters-2020-protests-refuses-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Casillo instead has opted for a jury trial, where she faces seven years in prison if found guilty.
Casillo rejected the same plea deal last year, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/nyc-woman-who-drove-through-blm-protest-turns-down-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
In video footage that captured part of the incident, Casillo’s black BMW can be seen surrounded by protesters, some of whom appear to be touching or banging on her vehicle. Casillo then stepped on the gas and sped through the group, injuring nine.
“My side of the story was we were attacked by people who were going to break my daughter&#8217;s window and pull her out of the car, so I feared [for] my life,” Casillo <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10267879/White-NYC-woman-53-lives-fear-life-hitting-BLM-protesters-attacked-car.html">told</a> the Mail last year.
She told the outlet at the time that she refused the plea deal because she didn’t believe she did anything wrong and didn’t want to plead guilty to reckless assault and reckless endangerment.
“I&#8217;m going to court to clear my name because I&#8217;m not guilty,” she told the Mail.
“I feel sick,” she continued. “I never intended on hurting anyone. I just feared for my daughter&#8217;s life more than anybody. I thought they were going to pull her out of the car.”
“They’re just making the black community look like they’re thugs. One of my closest friends is a woman of color, from when I was 19-years-old, so it’s not a black, white thing. I don’t know even know the color of the people that I hit. It was all mixed,” she added.
Casillo’s attorney, Oliver Storch, told the Post last year that his client wouldn’t plead guilty to what he called an “accident.”
“Not all accidents are criminal,” Storch said.
He also told the outlet that it was an “aberration” that Casillo was arrested, noting that police just as easily could have arrested the protesters who he says attacked her car for criminal mischief.
“This was an angry mob that descended upon this mother and her daughter, and she panicked,” he said.
“We’re not making light of this,” he said, adding that Casillo “is deeply, deeply concerned and feels very bad for anybody who was injured.”
“But there is no criminal liability here. There was nothing reckless about her conduct,” Storch told the outlet.
Casillo’s 29-year-old daughter Dominique, who was in the car at the time, told the Mail last year that “it didn’t look like a protest” when their vehicle was surrounded by demonstrators.
“It was more like being attacked by random people who were being menaces,” she told the outlet.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> (ICE) said Wednesday that an illegal immigrant allegedly broke into the campaign office of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs last week, despite her seeming attempt to blame it on her Republican opponent Kari Lake.
According to <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/alleged-burglar-hobbs-campaign-violated-immigration-status-wanted-ice/75-89f356e2-c833-4890-a35a-14287a9b9564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local media</a>, ICE said Daniel Mota Dos Reis, 36, of Portugal, who arrived in the United States as a registered student in 2018, was arrested last week for criminal trespassing and burglary charges.
Mota is &#8220;currently at-large for administrative immigration violations for failing to maintain his status as a registered student at an academic institution,&#8221; Yasmeen Pitts O&#8217;Keefe, a public affairs officer for ICE, told local media.
Witnesses said Mota was seen breaking into at least two different office suites.
According to local authorities, one of those offices was the campaign headquarters of Hobbs.
According to court records, Mota engaged in a confrontation with police on October 26. The suspect ran from the officers and pushed a 60-year-old female security guard before authorities arrested him. Later that evening, a patrol officer saw media reports of a campaign burglary that happened two nights before, where surveillance showed an image of Mota.
Mota was arrested again by Phoenix Police for the campaign headquarters burglary on the night of October 24.
Following the burglary, Hobbs insinuated that Lake or her &#8220;allies&#8221; had at least inspired a recent break-in at her campaign office.
Hobbs released a statement following the burglary — which allegedly took place at her campaign headquarters in Phoenix and was reported to local authorities last week — saying that she and her team were cooperating with law enforcement to get to the bottom of the incident.
She then suggested that Lake&#8217;s rhetoric had ratcheted up the temperature and may have pushed her allies in a violent direction.
&#8220;Secretary Hobbs and her staff have faced hundreds of death threats and threats of violence over the course of this campaign. Throughout this race, we have been clear that the safety of our staff and of the Secretary is our number one priority,&#8221; the campaign statement began, before pivoting to attack Lake.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit. The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation,&#8221; it continued.
Lake responded to the thinly-veiled accusation, telling CNN it was &#8220;absurd&#8221; and suggesting that the break-in may not have even happened as Hobbs&#8217; campaign claimed. &#8220;Are you really buying that?&#8221; she asked, adding, &#8220;Because this sounds like a Jussie Smollett part 2.&#8221;
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Remember when <a href="https://twitter.com/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiehobbs</a> accused me of orchestrating a Watergate-style break-in of her campaign office? 
Well, it turns out it was a repeat-criminal here in our country illegally. 
RETWEET THIS. People must know. <a href="https://t.co/tf1k2UJRFZ">pic.twitter.com/tf1k2UJRFZ</a>
&mdash; Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1587939741550329856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Phoenix Police confirmed Mota&#8217;s arrest last week, adding authorities found no evidence suggesting Mota&#8217;s attack on Hobbs&#8217; campaign office was politically motivated, or the burglary was staged.
Mota has now violated the &#8220;terms of his admission&#8221; and is wanted by immigration authorities. However, local media suggest that it is unclear why Mota was not held by immigration authorities and released to the public.
Enforcement and Removal Operations, a division of ICE with the Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, told local media that Mota &#8220;came to ERO&#8217;s attention after his arrest by the Phoenix Police Department&#8221; on October 27 and was advised that Mota “had bonded out of Maricopa County Sheriff’s custody prior to a detainer being issued.”

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Illegal Immigrant Identified By Authorities As Suspected Burglar Of Katie Hobbs' Campaign Office, Debunking Attempted Blame On Kari Lake

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Tim Ryan, Ohio&#8217;s Democratic nominee for Senate, has called for border security on the campaign trail, but just three years ago he pledged to strip funding from border authorities and support citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
In 2019, when Ryan was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked presidential candidates to pledge their support for several specific policies regarding illegal immigration.
Ryan agreed to support a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. He also pledged to slash the detention budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and end the use of ICE detainers, his <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/31/jd-vance/vance-wrongly-says-ryan-wanted-decriminalize-fenta/">answers</a> to the ACLU <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23206181/ryan-aclu-candidate-questionnaire-2019.pdf">questionnaire</a> show.
The ACLU asked whether Ryan would promise to &#8220;champion legislation&#8221; that would provide &#8220;fair and achievable paths to citizenship&#8221; for 11 million illegal immigrants. Ryan checked &#8220;yes.&#8221;
&#8220;They are our neighbors, our colleagues, our friends, our family members,&#8221; the ACLU questionnaire said. &#8220;As long as we prevent these individuals from becoming citizens, we are institutionalizing a permanent underclass, primarily Latino, Asian, and Black, living and working in the U.S. but often unable or afraid to assert their civil and constitutional rights.&#8221;
The ACLU also asked whether Ryan would &#8220;commit to ending the use of ICE detainers,&#8221; which are requests from ICE to state or local law enforcement to detain an illegal immigrant until federal immigration authorities can take them into custody. Ryan indicated he would commit to doing so.
Ryan also took the ACLU pledge committing to reducing the size of the immigration detention system by &#8220;at least 75%,&#8221; including by &#8220;cutting ICE’s detention budget&#8221; and ending the detention of asylum seekers.
Over the course of his Senate campaign, Ryan has called for better security at the porous U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;On some of the border stuff, I think he’s made some big mistakes,&#8221; Ryan <a href="https://www.wfmj.com/clip/15342683/democratic-candidate-for-us-senate-tim-ryan">said</a> in September of President Joe Biden&#8217;s approach to the border.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to be firmer on the border,&#8221; the Ohio congressman said.
In May, Ryan held a joint briefing to discuss border security with several fellow members of the Bipartisan Border Security Technology Caucus.
“In 2021 alone, we know nearly two million unauthorized migrants came across the Mexican border. This calendar year is on pace to repeat those same numbers,” Ryan <a href="https://timryan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-tim-ryan-and-colleagues-kick-bipartisan-border-security-technology">said</a> during the briefing.
“There’s eight billion people in the world and a lot of them want to live in the United States, so we need to make sure that we have an orderly process on how we let people into this country,” Ryan said.
Border authorities encountered more than two million migrants at the border in fiscal year 2022, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/politics/border-encounters-migrants-2022">according</a> to data released last month from Customs and Border Protection. Some of those encounters were people who repeatedly tried to cross the U.S. border.
In September, border authorities encountered nearly 228,000 migrants, up 12% from August, partly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/politics/border-encounters-migrants-2022">due</a> to people fleeing failing regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
Ryan faces Republican candidate J.D. Vance in the general election on November 8.
Vance has run on a platform of strong border security that includes no amnesty for illegal immigrants, doubling the number of border agents, and working to finish construction of a border wall.

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