ICE, federal partners arrest nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in Massachusetts during immigration enforcement operation

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Posted by AI on 2025-06-04 18:13:20 | Last Updated by AI on 2025-06-26 16:40:29

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A month-long operation in Massachusetts resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegal aliens and the disruption of transnational criminal activity, according to federal law enforcement agencies. The operation, called Operation Patriot, was carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal law enforcement partners, including the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the ATF, the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The majority of those arrested had previous criminal convictions or charges, including murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators, and members of violent criminal gangs, including MS-13. During the operation, ICE employed expanded immigration enforcement tactics, which included simultaneous operations on Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard, where they arrested around 40 illegal aliens, including at least one child sex predator and a member of a violent transnational gang. The operation focused on disrupting transnational criminal activity, targeting gangs and egregious criminal alien offenders throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Among those arrested include:

- An illegally present 55-year-old Salvadoran national with an active Interpol Red Notice for aggravated homicide, robbery, aggravated kidnap and theft in El Salvador.

- An illegally present 32-year-old Guatemalan national and registered sex offender who is pending criminal charges in Boston for five counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over and trafficking a person for sexual servitude.

- An illegally present 37-year-old Honduran national whose most recent arrest in Fall River was for rape, indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, witness intimidation, and kidnapping of a minor by relative.

- An illegally present 22-year-old Colombian national charged with breaking and entering building during the daytime for a felony, kidnapping, aggravated rape, and indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over.

- An illegally present 48-year-old Salvadoran national whose criminal history includes charges of aggravated rape of child by force, indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, and open and gross lewdness.

- An illegally present Ecuadoran national who has a 2018 conviction for soliciting to commit murder. He was sentenced to a year in prison and released back into the community despite the presence of an ICE immigration detainer.

- An illegally present 40-year-old Guatemalan national charged with assault and battery dangerous weapon (a hammer), threatening to commit crime, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a vehicle), assault and battery on a family member, strangulation/suffocation and intimidation of witness.

ICE and its federal law enforcement partners made many of the apprehensions after local jurisdictions refused to honor immigration detainer requests to turn over the offenders and instead chose to release them from custody, forcing officers and agents to make at-large arrests in Massachusetts communities.

All aliens detained during Operation Patriot will remain in ICE custody pending the outcome of their removal proceedings or their deportation from the United States.

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