ERO Boston has arrested a Dominican national charged with possession and intent to distribute narcotics.
According to a press release, on May 3 in Quincy, Mass., Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston detained a Dominican Republic national. The foreign individual, who is accused of possessing drugs with the purpose to distribute locally, has already been expelled three times from the United States for entering the country illegally.
“Suspected drug dealers and those with a history of unlawful entry into the U.S. are a very real and present threat to the public safety of our citizens,” said Todd Lyons, ERO Boston Field Office director, in a release. “ERO Boston will continue to work to make our streets safer by seeking out those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws and who pose a threat to the security of our communities.”
The Pew Research Center wrote that the United States has more immigrants than any other country, noting approximately 40 million people were born outside of the U.S.
ERO officials acknowledged that they had arrested approximately 46,000 non-U.S. citizens with criminal histories in 2022.
The Dominican native, who had previously been found guilty, locally, of possessing dangerous weapons and identity theft, entered the country illegally before 2011.
He was deported to his home country in June 2016, after an immigration court with the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) ordered him to leave the U.S. in 2013. He was deported in September 2017, after breaking the law a second time that same year.
For a third time in January 2019, he was deported after entering the country illegally, again, sometime after September 2017. He re-entered the country illegally after January 2019.
The Pew Research Center noted 66% of Americans see immigrants as a strength of the country, while 33% say they’re a burden to the country.
After taking him into custody, ERO Boston informed the Dominican national that his previous removal order had been reinstated and that they intended to reapply for his deportation.
