An El Salvadoran unlawful immigrant wished for allegedly sexually assaulting a toddler has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts, after an area sheriff’s workplace ignored a detainer to carry him.
ICE mentioned its Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) Boston arrested 55-year-old Hugo Israel Ruiz on Dec. 17 on felony expenses of indecent assault and battery on a toddler underneath the age of 14, including that he stays in custody pending immigration and legal proceedings.
The Revere Police Division arrested Ruiz on Aug. 22, and his listening to was held on the Chelsea District Court docket.
The court docket allowed Ruiz to be launched from the Nashua Avenue Jail on bail, regardless of an immigration detainer requesting ICE be notified of his launch.
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ICE arrested Hugo Israel Ruiz, and unlawful immigrant wished on expenses of indecent assault and battery on a toddler underneath 14, on Dec. 17, 2024, after a court docket in Suffolk County, Massachusetts didn’t honor ICE’s detainer and launched him on bail. (ICE)
However the sheriff’s workplace that operates the jail ignored the detainer, releasing Ruiz into the general public with out notifying ICE.
“ERO Boston will take each alternative to establish, find and take into custody legal noncitizens going through felony expenses and maintain them in custody till their legal and immigration proceedings are resolved,” ERO Boston appearing Discipline Workplace Director Patricia H. Hyde mentioned. “Not solely is that this our mission, it’s also the lawful factor to do.”
In October 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Division terminated its contract with ICE, and as a substitute selected to shift sources because of the growing inhabitants of girls getting into the Suffolk County Home of Correction, in line with an announcement from Sheriff Steve Thompkins on the time.
“We’re ending our contract with ICE to reallocate our sources in the direction of serving to native ladies to deal with long-standing points which have contributed to their involvement within the legal justice system,” Tompkins mentioned within the assertion. “Our gender-specific programming, which is among the many greatest within the nation, permits us to deal with these points, which embrace home violence, sexual exploitation and substance use issues, to call a number of.”
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The assertion, which seems on his marketing campaign web site, famous that the contract with ICE to accommodate federal immigration detainees was first signed in 2003. The then appearing director of ICE ERO Boston mentioned the company was upset by the sheriff’s resolution after sharing a “mutually helpful” partnership for over a decade.
The newest arrest comes as Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has mentioned that her state police will “completely not” be cooperating with the anticipated mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, warning that she is going to use “each device within the toolbox” to “defend” residents within the blue state.
President-elect Trump has pledged to launch the “largest home deportation operation in American historical past” to deport thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants. One report by the Middle for Immigration Research (CIS) estimated 50,000 migrants have arrived within the state since 2021.
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a morning press convention asserting important motion associated to the state’s emergency shelter system. (Picture by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Photos) (Picture by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Photos)
“I do suppose it is vital that all of us acknowledge that there’s going to be loads of stress on states and state officers. I can guarantee you we will work laborious to ship,” Healey mentioned following President-elect Trump’s resounding election win final month.
Final yr, Healey declared a state of emergency within the state because of the surge and known as for federal motion. She additionally acknowledged that the state’s insurance policies could also be a draw for migrants.
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“Many of those households are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn right here as a result of we’re and proudly have been a beacon to these in want,” she wrote in a letter to Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
