U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have removed a Peruvian national accused of crimes stemming from membership in the Colina Group death squad, including the disappearance of nine students and a professor in Lima’s La Cantuta neighborhood in 1992.

According to a release from ICE, the division of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deported Aldo Albert Velásquez Asencio, 57, on March 31 from the U.S. for crimes including the abduction of nine students and a professor in Lima's La Cantuta area in July 1992.

“I commend the combined efforts of our officers, our legal team and the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center in making it possible to make this arrest,” ERO New York City Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo said in the release. “Because of their efforts, a very dangerous non-citizen has been removed from the community to face justice in his home country.”

Velásquez Asencio received a notice to appear from ERO New York, which ruled that he was removable under the Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(A)(i) as a person who entered the country on Feb. 24, 2022, without inspection, admission or parole. The Office of the Principal Legal Advisor of New York handled the case, with help from the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, which provided information regarding his crimes in Peru, the release added.

Velásquez Asencio was ordered to be deported from the U.S. back to Peru in September 2022 by a federal immigration court working for the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review. In January, the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his appeal attempt.

Noncitizens placed into removal proceedings which are administered by the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review, an agency within the Justice Department, which is separate from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, the release stated.