U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apprehended an unlawful alien from Guatemala in Massachusetts, who was charged with a number of counts of kid rape.
ICE mentioned 49-year-old Jose Fernando-Perez was taken into custody in Framingham, Massachusetts on Feb. 2. He had beforehand been charged with three counts of forcible rape of a kid and three counts of aggravated rape of a kid.
“Jose Fernando-Perez has been charged with some horrific crimes in opposition to a minor in our commonwealth,” ICE Enforcement and Removing Operations (ERO) Boston appearing Discipline Workplace Director Patricia H. Hyde mentioned. “He’s precisely the kind of alien we’re focusing on with our ‘worst first’ coverage. He posed a big hazard to the kids of Massachusetts, and we won’t tolerate such a menace to our neighborhood.”
In response to ICE, Fernando entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown date and site, with out being inspected, admitted or paroled by an immigration official.
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ICE Boston apprehended Jose Fernando-Perez, a Guatemalan nationwide within the U.S. illegally who’s going through a number of little one rape prices in Massachusetts. (Credit score: ICE)
In December 2005, Fernando was arraigned in Lynn District Courtroom for leaving the scene of an accident with property injury and for having inaccurate license plates hooked up to the automobile. He was in the end convicted of the fees on Oct. 19, 2012.
He was arraigned once more in Lynn District Courtroom on April 19, 2022, however this time for rape of a kid by drive.
The court docket dismissed the case due to an indictment within the superior court docket, ICE famous.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers arrested Jose Fernando-Perez, an unlawful immigrant from Guatemala going through a number of little one rape prices in Massachusetts. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
On Could 16, 2022, ICE lodged an immigration detainer in opposition to Fernando with the Essex County Home of Correction, although the Essex County Superior Courtroom ignored the detainer and launched him on pretrial circumstances on Oct. 6, 2022.
On Feb. 2, Fernando was apprehended, and since then, ICE officers have served him with a discover to look earlier than an immigration choose with the Division of Justice. ICE mentioned Fernando at present stays in custody.
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Gov. Maura Healey mentioned in November that her state police will “completely not” be cooperating with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, warning that she is going to use “each software within the toolbox” to “defend” residents within the blue state.
However final month, she modified her tune, noting that her state will not be a sanctuary state, regardless of a 2017 ruling by the state Supreme Judicial Courtroom that severely limits regulation enforcement cooperation with ICE.
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“I nonetheless stay opposed on efforts to focus on massive swaths of an undocumented inhabitants who’ve executed nothing fallacious apart from they’re right here with out lawful presence,” she mentioned.
Healey has taken a barely extra centrist place on immigration enforcement in latest months.
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After an unlawful migrant was caught utilizing the state’s migrant shelter system for criminal activity, Healey mentioned she was “outraged,” She ordered a full inspection of the system and despatched a letter to Massachusetts legislative leaders, urging them to amend the state’s “proper to shelter” legal guidelines to exclude unlawful immigrants.
On the time, she commented that Trump now has the chance to repair the border and mentioned, “I hope he does.”
Massachusetts Legal professional Basic Andrea Campbell, nevertheless, continues to staunchly oppose the Trump administration’s crackdown.
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In actual fact, she took to social media a number of instances final month to precise her anger over Trump’s immigration choices, saying in a single X submit that “State & native regulation enforcement can’t be commandeered for federal immigration enforcement. Regardless of what President Trump might imagine, he does not have the authority to unilaterally rewrite our Structure.”
Fox Information’ Invoice Melugin, Peter Pinedo, Stephen Sorace and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
