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Recent News About U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Phoenix is implementing a year-long effort to provide essential public safety measures in and around the area for Super Bowl LVII. As a qualifying National Special Security Event, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas designated HSI Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown as the lead federal coordinator.
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Special agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Charleston teamed up with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia to conduct a day-long human trafficking training workshop Jan. 31 at the University of Charleston.
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A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Norfolk investigation led to a guilty plea from a Midlothian, Virginia man Jan. 31 for conspiring to defraud and commit offenses against the United States, including human trafficking of individuals from Central America; benefiting from forced labor; money laundering; and harboring undocumented non-citizens.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit (IHRU) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) joined national and international law enforcement partners and non-governmental organizations today in recognizing the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
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Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Antonio, with assistance from ERO Honduras and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement task force, removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive wanted in Honduras for homicide on Jan. 27.
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A judge sentenced Robert Ficzner, 27, of Fishers, Indiana to 13 years in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse material following a joint investigation between Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other agencies.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City removed Victor Hugo Chimbo-Ilbay, a citizen of Ecuador with a final order of removal, to Ecuador on Feb. 2.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Tallahassee’s Criminal Alien Program team officers arrested a citizen of the Dominican Republic in Tallahassee after he served a five-year sentence for lewd and lascivious battery in Osceola County.
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A federal judge sentenced a high-level Guatemalan cartel boss to 210 months in federal prison on Jan. 27.
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Deportation officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested Myrat Mahadev, a 35-year-old citizen of Turkmenistan, in Vermont on Jan. 30. Muhadov, a noncitizen fugitive, had an active arrest warrant in Turkmenistan for charges related to financial crimes.
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Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City Taekuk Cho and United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Brandon Goodsell, 36, of Kearney to 210 months’ imprisonment on Feb. 1.
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A federal judge in Alpine sentenced a Valentine man on Jan. 24 to 20 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for distributing child sexual abuse material.
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A west Texas math teacher is going to prison for 20 years for distributing images of child sexual abuse over a mobile messaging app.
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An unlawfully present Mexican national pleaded guilty Jan. 30 to multiple crimes related to her role in operating a sex trafficking ring out of a Houston-area cantina.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office, with assistance from ERO Mexico and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force in Mexico, removed a foreign fugitive from the U.S. Jan. 30 who is wanted for homicide in his home country of Mexico.
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A Jamaican citizen and felon, apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore, received an 84-month prison sentence followed by five years of supervised release for drug charges and illegal reentry into the United States.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston, with assistance from ERO Tegucigalpa and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force in Honduras, removed a foreign fugitive from the U.S. Jan. 27 who is wanted in Honduras for murder.
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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents are seeking additional victims whom a local woman, charged federally with impersonating a federal employee, may have defrauded.
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An Ohio man was arraigned Jan. 26 on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, following a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit, FBI joint probe.
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An investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. field office resulted in convictions of four men for their involvement in an online child exploitation network.