Liberal Nantucket reels from migrant crime wave as Biden visits for Thanksgiving

The Biden household arrived at Nantucket Island for his or her remaining presidential Thanksgiving on Tuesday regardless of a spate of migrant crimes which have plagued the holiday sizzling spot this yr. 

A small crowd watched as Air Drive One touched down at Nantucket Memorial Airport simply earlier than 6 p.m., and a presidential motorcade whisked the primary household away, the Nantucket Present reported. 

The president’s arrival created a bustling environment throughout the sometimes quiet vacation week on the island. Accommodations within the island’s historic downtown district had been absolutely booked with White Home reporters and Secret Service personnel, the native outlet reported.

Practically a dozen Massachusetts state troopers arrived with bikes through the Steamship Authority Ferry on Monday, and autos and gear have been dropped off by a sequence of Air Drive C-17’s over the previous three days. Greater than 200 turkey dinners will probably be cooked for Secret Service brokers at Faregrounds Restaurant. 

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President Biden, first woman Jill Biden and Ashley Biden go away Nantucket Bookworks after having lunch in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2022. Biden is spending the Thanksgiving vacation along with his household in Nantucket. (Photograph by MANDEL NGAN/AFP through Getty Pictures)

For the previous three years, the Bidens have stayed at a property owned by non-public fairness billionaire David Rubenstein that overlooks Nantucket Harbor, and their go to this yr continues their 40-year custom of spending the vacation on the island, the Present reported.

The Nantucket go to comes after a rash of unlawful immigrants had been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers there earlier this fall. 

5 migrants from Guatemala and El Salvador had been picked up by ICE’s Enforcement and Removing Operations of Boston over a 48-hour interval in September, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. Since August, the company has arrested at the least eight unlawful immigrants accused of varied felony fees on Nantucket and Martha’s Winery.

On Sept. 10, 28-year-old Salvadoran migrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo was charged with one rely of kid rape with a 10-year age distinction and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a toddler beneath 14.

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Secret Service brokers stroll forward of President Joe Biden as he visits retailers within the island’s Downtown Historic District with relations in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2023. (Photograph by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Pictures)

ERO Boston Discipline Workplace Director Todd Lyons mentioned Aldana-Arevalo “represents a major hazard to the kids of our Massachusetts communities,” in a press launch on the time of his arrest. Authorities mentioned the sufferer was simply 12 years previous, the Present reported. 

That day, Aldana-Arevalo and Elmer Sola, one other Salvadoran migrant charged with 11 counts of intercourse crimes towards a toddler, which Lyons mentioned came about on Nantucket, had been quietly taken to the mainland in handcuffs through ferry. 

Sola was arraigned, charged and launched with an ankle monitor Aug. 14 on the situation he stays away from the sufferer and the sufferer’s household, in line with the Present. Nonetheless, 9 days later, he returned to courtroom after allegedly violating the pretrial situations of his launch.

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Enforcement and Removing Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully current 28-year-old Salvadoran nationwide, Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, and charged him with quite a few intercourse crimes towards a toddler on Nantucket Island. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

On Sept. 11, brokers returned to the long-lasting trip web site to arrest unlawful Brazilian migrant Geon do Amaral Belafronte and Guatemalan unlawful immigrant Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez. Each had dedicated intercourse crimes towards Nantucket residents, Lyons mentioned. 

Belafronte entered the U.S. lawfully in 2018 however left of his personal volition after the alleged assault came about in 2021. He re-entered the nation illegally and was picked up on an arrest warrant in March. After his arraignment, Nantucket District Court docket launched him on $500 money bail or a $5,000 surety bond, in line with courtroom information and Boston ERO.

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ERO Boston on Thursday introduced the Sept. 12 arrest of 30-year-old, Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia, a Salvadoran unlawful immigrant and documented member of MS-13. (ICE ERO-Boston)

Reputed MS-13 gang member Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia of El Salvador was taken into custody by the company on the island on Sept. 12. Lyons mentioned Deras-Mejia “signify[ed] a major risk to the residents of Nantucket.”

Deras-Mejia was arrested on the Discovery Playground on Outdated South Highway in July. Nantucket Police wrote that he was “drunk and cursing, flaring his arms, yelling loudly and distracting all civilians who had been on the scene” and left kids on the scene crying. Allegedly, he and the mom of his youngster had been arguing about who would take their youngster residence, in line with the Present. In August, he was arrested once more for assault and battery on a family member.

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Elmer Sola is charged with 11 counts of intercourse crimes towards a toddler — particularly, three counts of aggravated rape of a kid and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a toddler beneath 14. (ICE – ERO Boston)

Toby Brown, chair of the Nantucket GOP and a Nantucket resident for 3 a long time, was among the many few on the island who would brazenly voice issues about unlawful immigration within the wake of the arrests. 

“We have to have this dialog and never simply hold having this… concept that for those who’re in some way apprehensive, you are a racist… individuals simply must not be afraid to talk up,” Brown beforehand informed Fox Information Digital. “This island was extra apprehensive about when Kevin Spacey obtained charged again in 2016 [than the recent sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by illegal immigrants],” he mentioned.

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Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, a 41-year-old unlawful immigrant from Guatemala, was charged with a intercourse crime towards a Nantucket resident. (ICE – ERO Boston)

“[The ICE arrests were] not a shock to us,” Brown mentioned. “Once you observe the courtroom experiences within the final yr or so, there have been fairly a little bit of violent arrests… perhaps it was stunning ICE got here out right here, however not stunning that they needed to come out right here.”

Brown mentioned most immigrants on the idyllic island off the coast of Cape Cod are good and lively group members, together with these residing there illegally. Lots of his buddies and coworkers are immigrants, he mentioned. Nonetheless, many residents are nonetheless involved about those that could also be operating from violent pasts of their residence international locations.

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“We owe it to our immigrants who’ve come right here, whether or not they’re authorized or not,” he mentioned. “There’s numerous them that simply need a greater life. And so they come right here, and so they’re doing one of the best they’ll. They increase their kids right here, and so they don’t desire this crime.”

“They did not come to Nantucket to stay the best way they did again in El Salvador or Mexico or wherever they got here from,” he added.