NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) New York Discipline Workplace arrested an unlawfully current noncitizen international fugitive wished in Mexico for murder.
Document checks indicated that Abdiel Dela Garza-Hernandez entered america on an unknown date and at an unknown location with out inspection from an immigration official.
“The courageous members of our Fugitive Operations groups are to be extremely counseled for eradicating this harmful particular person from the neighborhood,” mentioned ERO New York Performing Discipline Workplace Director Kenneth Genalo. “On this case, not solely is the person wished for murder in his house nation, however has confirmed himself to be a hazard to the neighborhood right here within the U.S.”
On Aug. 9, the Suffern, New York Village Court docket convicted Dela Garza-Hernandez of driving whereas impaired by the consumption of alcohol. The court docket sentenced him to pay a $300 high quality and suspended his driver’s license for 90 days.
On Nov. 17, officers from the ERO New York Newburgh Sub-Workplace administratively arrested Dela Garza-Hernandez in Middletown with out incident. ERO New York processed him and served him with a discover to seem for elimination proceedings pursuant to Part 212(a)(6)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended. He’ll stay in ICE custody pending his elimination.
Members of the general public who’ve details about international fugitives are urged to contact the ICE Tip Line at 866-DHS-2-ICE or internationally at 001-1802-872-6199. They’ll additionally file a tip on-line by finishing ICE’s online tip form.
ICE’s ERO directorate upholds U.S. immigration legislation at, inside and past our borders. ERO operations goal public security threats, resembling convicted felony 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 and apprehending international fugitives or fugitive arrest and elimination circumstances who’re wished for crimes dedicated overseas and who at the moment are at-large in america. ERO manages all elements of the immigration enforcement course of, together with identification and arrest, detention, bond administration, supervised launch, transportation and elimination. As well as, ERO repatriates noncitizens ordered faraway from the U.S. to greater than 170 international locations all over the world.