HOUSTON — Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) Houston Subject Workplace, with help from ERO Mexico and the Safety Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Activity Pressure in Mexico, eliminated a international fugitive from the U.S. Jan. 30 who is needed for murder in his house nation of Mexico.
On Jan. 29, immigration officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ERO Houston Subject Workplace transported Jose Matilde Rico Sanchez, a 48-year-old unlawfully current Mexican nationwide, from the Montgomery Processing Heart in Conroe, Texas, to the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in, Laredo, Texas. Upon arrival on the bridge on Jan. 30, Rico was transferred into the custody of Mexican regulation enforcement authorities.
Rico illegally entered the U.S. with out inspection or parole on an unknown date close to Del Rio, Texas. He was first encountered by ERO Houston on Sept. 2, 2015, on the Harris County Jail following his arrest for aggravated assault with a lethal weapon and an immigration detainer was lodged with the jail. On March 28, 2016, Rico was convicted of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon within the one hundred and eightieth District Court docket in Houston and he was sentenced to eight years in state jail. The Texas Division of Felony Justice launched Rico from custody on Jan. 4, 2023, and he was transferred into ICE custody pursuant to the immigration detainer. On Jan. 9, 2023, Mexican officers confirmed to ERO Houston that Rico is needed Guanajuato, Mexico, for murder. An immigration choose (IJ) with the Justice Division’s Executive Office for Immigration Review ordered Rico faraway from the U.S. to Mexico on Jan. 19, 2023, and his elimination was executed by ICE officers Jan. 30.
Along with being convicted of aggravated assault within the U.S., Rico has additionally been convicted of driving whereas intoxicated and failure to cease on Dec. 15, 1999, in Harris County, Texas.
“This particular person fled Mexico to keep away from prosecution for his alleged crimes and he has continued to interact in felony exercise whereas right here illegally within the U.S.,” stated Appearing Subject Workplace Director Gabriel Martinez, ERO Houston. “By eradicating him from the U.S. to Mexico, we now have eradicated a risk to public security in our area people and despatched a convincing message that Southeast Texas is not going to be a refuge for international fugitives or anybody who undermines the integrity of our nation’s immigration and felony legal guidelines.”
Members of the general public who’ve details about international fugitives are urged to contact ICE by calling the ICE Tip Line at 1 (866) 347-2423 or internationally at 001-1802-872-6199. They’ll additionally file a tip on-line by finishing ICE’s online tip form.
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The SAFE Program is a fugitive enforcement and knowledge sharing partnership that was created in 2012 to raised use topic info derived from native in-country investigative assets and results in find, apprehend, detain, and take away people residing within the U.S. illegally who had been topic to international arrest warrants. The SAFE Program operates below the respective host nation’s AAR, which constructs a SAFE process power composed of related international regulation enforcement companies, immigration authorities, attorneys basic, and nationwide identification repositories – in addition to different regional, nationwide, state, and native authorities companies. The managing AAR ensures that every process power member complies with SAFE insurance policies and requirements in line with this system’s commonplace working procedures. As soon as established, the AAR-led SAFE process power generates new leads and vets current SAFE fugitive referrals for ERO motion.
ERO, a directorate of ICE, upholds U.S. immigration regulation at, inside, and past our borders. ERO operations goal public security threats, reminiscent of convicted felony noncitizens and gang members, who’ve violated our nation’s immigration legal guidelines, together with those that illegally re-enter 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 international fugitives for crimes dedicated overseas at-large within the U.S. ERO manages all elements of the immigration enforcement course of, together with identification and arrest, detention, bond administration, supervised launch, transportation, and elimination. Moreover, ERO repatriates noncitizens ordered faraway from the U.S. to greater than 150 nations worldwide.
