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Check out our weekly recap of top news from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement highlighting the work of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). For more news from ICE, visit our newsroom.
ICE conducts single adult, family unit removal flights Dec. 15
ICE, working in coordination with the DHS and CBP, facilitated removal flights, including single adults and family units to Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal and Venezuela from Dec. 11 - 15. If a noncitizen arrives and has no legal basis to remain in the United States they are processed and removed quickly, consistent with U.S. law. 🔗Keep reading
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Unlawfully present Mexican citizen sentenced to 42 months following ERO Chicago arrest
An unlawfully present Mexican man and previously convicted sexual predator pleaded guilty to illegal reentry in November 2023 and will serve a 42-month sentence in an Indiana Federal Bureau of Prisons facility. 🔗Keep reading
ERO Harlingen removes Salvadoran wanted in home country for human smuggling and illicit association
ERO Harlingen removed Juan Carlos Pena Escobar, a citizen of El Salvador with a final order of removal, to El Salvador via a U.S. ICE Air Operations charter flight. Pena is wanted by El Salvadoran law enforcement authorities for human smuggling and illicit association. 🔗Keep reading
HSI Los Angeles investigation ends with clothing wholesaler fined for customs fraud and violating US drug trafficking sanctions
A Southern California-based clothing wholesale company was fined $4 million, ordered to pay more than $6.3 million in restitution, and placed on probation for five years on Dec. 8 for undervaluing imported garments in a scheme to avoid paying millions in customs duties and for doing business with a woman linked to Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. 🔗Keep Reading
Texas man sentenced to 40 years for producing, possessing child sexual abuse material
A Texas man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child sexual abuse material following an investigation by HSI, Houston’s Galveston office and the Pearland Police Department. 🔗Keep reading
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