Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in New York Metropolis apprehended a Tren de Aragua gang member final week who was first encountered on the border two years in the past.
ICE officers mentioned native sanctuary jurisdictions twice ignored detainer arrests and launched Javier Jose Albornoz Marchan, 22, again into the group — regardless of his sample of legal habits — earlier than his most up-to-date arrest on Staten Island.
“Sanctuary jurisdictions undermine public security and put our communities at pointless threat,” mentioned ERO New York Metropolis Area Workplace Director Kenneth Genalo.Â
“It’s unconscionable this felon was operating free in New York for the final three weeks when he might have instantly been apprehended upon launch from native custody.”
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A Venezuelan nationwide with a number of arrests was arrested final week after native officers ignored two separate detainers from ICE. (Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Pictures)
Albornoz, a Venezuelan nationwide, was one in every of eight unlawful immigrants busted for weapons and drug associated offenses within the Bronx on March 27, ICE officers mentioned. He was convicted by the Bronx County Supreme Court docket of legal possession of a firearm.
In accordance with a information launch, U.S. Border Patrol first encountered Albornoz close to El Paso, Texas on Sept. 22, 2022. He was launched into the USA as a result of the detention middle in El Paso lacked capability to carry him.
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Border Patrol picks up a bunch of asylum seekers from an help camp on the US-Mexico border close to Sasabe, Arizona, US, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. In accordance with ICE, Border Patrol first encountered Albornoz in El Paso, Texas in 2022. (Justin Hamel/Getty Pictures)
His first subsequent run-in with legislation enforcement got here on June 18, 2023, when the Moonachie Police Division arrested Albornoz for shoplifting. The Municipal Court docket of Teterboro remanded Albornoz’s expenses to a decrease court docket and launched him three days later.
On Jan. 6, 2024, Albornoz was once more arrested by the Woodbridge Police Division in New Jersey on expenses of shoplifting and manufacturing housebreaking instruments. ICE’s Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) issued an immigration detainer for Albornoz on Jan. 8, however native officers in North Brunswick ignored the detainer and launched him from custody with out notifying ERO, officers mentioned.
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Police patrol outdoors of a migrant shelter in Brooklyn on July 21, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Â Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
Albornoz was arrested once more by NYPD on March 27, this time for legal possession of a weapon within the second diploma: loaded firearm; legal possession weapon within the second diploma: loaded firearm on college grounds; legal possession of a managed substance with intent to promote; and performing in method to injure little one lower than 17.
ERO filed a second immigration detainer for Albornoz with the New York Division of Corrections at Rikers Island on April 1, in line with the discharge.Â
Albornoz was convicted of legal possession of a firearm on Sept. 5 and sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment. Nevertheless, ICE mentioned he was launched as soon as once more, regardless of the lively detainer, with out notification to ERO.
Weeks afterward Sept. 27 an FBI activity drive alerted ERO in New York Metropolis to potential threats allegedly made by Albornoz to native legislation enforcement and requested for assist to find and arrest him. He was taken into ICE custody the very subsequent day.
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Genalo chastised New York Metropolis and state leaders over their sanctuary insurance policies and urged that native legislation enforcement be permitted to cooperate with ICE to take away legal aliens.Â
“Fortunately, by the due diligence of our brave officers and our legislation enforcement companions, this particular person was swiftly apprehended and denied the power to reoffend,” he mentioned.Â
