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Justice flight! ICE deports Salvadoran fugitive wanted for homicide, robbery and gang crimes

DENVER, COLO. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday deported a Salvadoran national wanted in his home country for a slate of serious criminal charges, including aggravated homicide and gang-related offenses. Jose Eduardo Moran-Garcia, 28, was removed from the United States to El Salvador via air transport on March 28, according to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Denver. Moran is a known foreign fugitive facing charges in El Salvador for aggravated homicide, displacement of individuals, unlawful groupings, and aggravated robbery. “Today, justice prevails,” said ERO Denver Field Office Director Robert Guadian. “The successful removal of this

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ICE deports convicted Pakistani drug trafficker after 131-month prison sentence

PHILADELPHIA, PA – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported Amal Said, a Pakistani citizen and convicted international drug trafficker, following his prison sentence for heroin distribution, officials announced. Said was removed to Pakistan on March 5 after serving 131 months in prison for international narcotics conspiracy and attempted heroin distribution. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York convicted him after he was prosecuted upon arrival in the United States. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia, in coordination with law enforcement agencies, facilitated his deportation. “The extradition, conviction, and removal of Amal Said demonstrates

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ICE deports Mexican woman with multiple DWI and theft convictions

HOUSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported a Mexican national Thursday who had been removed from the U.S. six times and amassed multiple convictions for driving while intoxicated and theft, officials said. Leticia Caballero Guadarrama, 53, was transported from the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, Texas, to the Laredo Port of Entry, where she was turned over to Mexican authorities. Caballero had illegally entered the U.S. at least six times, with prior deportations in 2003, 2009, 2010, and most recently in 2025. She also has 14 criminal convictions, including six for DWI and six for theft or larceny.

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ICE deports Mexican fugitive wanted for kidnapping

NOGALES, Ariz. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported Jose Ramon Torres Cordova, a 47-year-old Mexican fugitive wanted in Hermosillo, Mexico, for kidnapping and criminal association, officials announced. Torres was removed from the Eloy Detention Center on March 7 and transferred to Mexican authorities at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales. “The return of this fugitive to Mexico is a prime example of how ICE works closely with our international law enforcement partners to identify, locate and remove criminal aliens who are wanted in their country,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Phoenix Field Office Director

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ICE deports Salvadoran fugitive wanted for child rape in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Oscar Alexander Cruz Rodriguez, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national wanted for the rape of a minor, on Feb. 14. Rodriguez had been living illegally in the United States after entering the country without inspection at an unknown time and location. “Criminal foreign fugitives who prey on minors are not welcome in Minnesota,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations St. Paul Field Office Director Peter Berg. The ICE Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement task force in El Salvador assisted in coordinating Rodriguez’s removal.

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ICE deports convicted sex offender, human rights offender to Rwanda

WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Napolean Ahmed Mbonyunkiza, a 56-year-old Rwandan national convicted of sexual abuse and linked to human rights violations, to Rwanda on March 4. Mbonyunkiza was charged in 2010 in the United States with third-degree sexual abuse, neglect of a dependent person, and dependent adult abuse. He fled while out on bond but was later paroled into the U.S. in 2013 to face prosecution. During the investigation, ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center discovered his ties to the Mouvement Republicain National pour la Democratie et le Developpement, a political party associated

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ICE deports Mexican fugitive wanted for child rape after four illegal U.S. entries

HOUSTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force, deported Nestor Flores Encarnacion, 58, to Mexico on Thursday. Flores, who illegally entered the U.S. four times, is wanted in Veracruz, Mexico, for the rape of a child. Flores was removed from the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, Texas, and transferred into the custody of Mexican authorities at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas. “This foreign fugitive brazenly entered the U.S. in violation of our nation’s laws on four separate occasions

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US deports ex-coup leader to crisis-torn Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday deported former Haitian coup leader Guy Philippe back to his Caribbean homeland after serving some six years in a U.S. prison on charges of money-laundering linked to Colombian drug trafficking. Philippe, a former police officer who led the 2004 ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and later won a senatorial race in the rural Grand’Anse region, is currently in a police facility near the capital’s main airport, a police source told Reuters. It was not immediately clear whether Philippe will continue to be detained. Local outlet Haiti9 News published footage showing a handful

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Mexico nabs, swiftly deports MS-13 gang leader to El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Police in Mexico City arrested one of the most wanted leaders of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang accused of multiple crimes in the United States, officials said on Tuesday, in a fresh blow to one of Central America’s most violent criminal groups. Jose Wilfredo Ayala, 55, was arrested after a tip from a neighbor, according to the Mexican capital’s security ministry. The ministry said it had discovered Ayala – believed to be second-in-command of the gang commonly known as MS-13 – was using a false identity and hiding in Mexico City and in two areas a

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Mexico deports 126 Venezuelan migrants

MEXICO CITY – Mexico deported 126 Venezuelan migrants who did not have proper permission to be in the country, the National Migration Institute (INM) said on Saturday. The 117 men and nine women were not able to prove their legal entry into Mexico, an INM statement said. The migrants were transported from an immigration station in the city of Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, to an airport where they boarded a flight early Saturday morning. The INM has so far this year deported 343 Venezuelan migrants, the institute said. An estimated 6 million Venezuelans have fled economic collapse and insecurity

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