Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien accused of sex offenses against children after the sanctuary state of New York released him from jail.
“This case shows the real cost of ignoring ICE detainers: Violent offenders walk free, and public safety is put at risk,” ICE official Ruben Perez said in a statement. “I’m proud of our deportation officers, who tracked him down and took him into custody — removing a dangerous predator from the streets within weeks of his release into the community.”
On August 13, ICE agents apprehended Dominican illegal alien Robert Reid Mendez Jimenez. In 2018, a federal immigration judge ordered Jimenez to be deported, but he was never deported.
Jimenez was arrested by ICE agents after being arrested by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for sexual behavior with a kid under the age of 11, as well as additional sexual assault accusations.
Despite ICE agents lodging a detainer with NYPD to keep Jimenez in custody until federal agents could arrest him, NYPD officers were required to release him from jail and back into the community according to New York’s sanctuary policy.
Jimenez remains in ICE custody awaiting deportation from the United States.
