NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Elimination Operations, generally known as ICE and ERO, respectively, arrested an Ecuadorian fugitive in Spring Valley, New York on Dec. 1; the person is needed for rape in Ecuador.
Renato Tejada-Alvarez, 35, entered the U.S. on March 4, 2021 as a nonimmigrant and violated his phrases of admission. Officers from the ERO Fugitive Operations Newburgh, New York sub-office arrested him in Spring Valley on Dec. 1. Tejada-Alvarez is being held in ICE custody pending elimination proceedings.
“Our Fugitive Operations Staff is to be counseled for his or her work in monitoring and arresting this harmful particular person,” stated ERO New York Performing Discipline Workplace Director Kenneth Genalo. “Neighborhood security is ICE’s precedence, and that is yet one more step towards that finish.”
ICE officers make enforcement selections on a case-by-case foundation in knowledgeable and accountable method, knowledgeable by their expertise as legislation enforcement officers and in a means that finest protects in opposition to the best threats to the homeland.
In fiscal year 2021, ERO arrested 12,025 people with aggravated felony convictions. Offenses related to noncitizens arrested in FY 2021 included 1,506 murder associated offenses, 3,415 sexual assaults, 19,549 assaults, 2,717 robberies and 1,063 kidnappings.
ICE’s ERO directorate upholds U.S. immigration legislation at, inside and past our borders. ERO operations goal public security threats, akin to convicted prison noncitizens and gang members, in addition to people who’ve in any other case violated our nation’s immigration legal guidelines, together with those that illegally reentered the nation after being eliminated and immigration fugitives ordered eliminated by federal immigration judges. ERO deportation officers assigned to Interpol additionally help in focusing on overseas fugitives and in fugitive arrest and elimination circumstances involving those that are needed for crimes dedicated overseas and who are actually at-large in the USA. ERO manages all points of the immigration enforcement course of, together with identification and arrest, detention, bond administration, supervised launch, in addition to transportation and elimination. As well as, ERO repatriates noncitizens ordered faraway from the U.S. to greater than 170 nations around the globe.
Members of the general public can report crimes and suspicious exercise by dialing 866-347-2423 or finishing ICE’s online tip form.
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