U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charged an unlawful immigrant with the homicide of a mom in Maryland on Wednesday, simply 5 days after Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., returned to the state from his high-profile El Salvador go to to attempt to retrieve a deported alleged MS-13 member.
ICE arrested Keycy Robinson Alexis Barrera-Rosa, a 23-year-old Guatemalan nationwide on April 5 in Charles County. He was later charged on April 23 after the physique of Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra from LaPlata was found buried close to a state forest.
ICE stated Barrera-Rose could be “totally prosecuted” for the alleged homicide, in keeping with ICE.
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Kilmar Garcia and Chris Van Hollen, the latter of whom visited the previous in El Salvador. (Getty)
Van Hollen, who returned to Maryland on Friday after attempting to deliver deportee Kilmar Garcia again from El Salvador, has not appeared to make any public feedback on the information concerning Guerra. He has, nevertheless, commented on unlawful immigrant crime prior to now, together with in a January assertion explaining his no vote on the Laken Riley Act.
“We should preserve our communities protected and prioritize the detention of violent offenders,” Van Hollen stated on Jan. 20.
In the meantime, Van Hollen and the a number of Home Democrats who adopted his lead in touring to Central America to help Garcia have grow to be the point of interest of the GOP’s derision in current days. For example, the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) launched a faux tourism advert saying Democrats “ought to be happy to make their journey to hang around with MS-13 gangbangers one-way.”
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The advert got here after severe crimes by the hands of unlawful immigrants cropped up across the Outdated Line State.
Most not too long ago, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was discovered responsible of killing Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Path in Bel Air.
Morin’s mom, Patty, was later invited to talk from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on the White Home, the place she lambasted Van Hollen for touring to El Salvador to assist Garcia.
On Sunday, Van Hollen advised “Fox Information Sunday” that what occurred to the Morin household “was terrible and unacceptable.”
Final week, a jury took lower than an hour to convict one other Maryland unlawful immigrant homicide suspect – Victor Martinez-Hernandez – on first-degree premeditated homicide fees in Harford County.
Additionally final week, ICE arrested Guatemalan nationwide Rene Pop-Chub in Hyattsville, Maryland, exterior Washington. Pop-Chub had pending homicide, assault and reckless endangerment fees, and was the topic of an ignored detainer by a county corrections workplace, in keeping with an ICE assertion.
“The arrest of Rene Pop-Chub underscores the crucial significance of cooperation between federal and native counterparts,” ICE Baltimore Performing Discipline Workplace Director Nikita Baker stated in a press release.
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Rene Pop-Chub, 32, was arrested by ICE in Hyattsville, Maryland. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement )
In a 2024 case in Montgomery Village, a northern suburb of Washington, ICE detained an “unlawfully current” Honduran nationwide and former deportee named Madai Gamaliel Amaya.
Amaya’s arrest marked what ICE stated was a document of 153 arrests of noncitizen intercourse offenders in Maryland in FY-2024. An ICE official known as the case a “landmark arrest” for the Baltimore area workplace, and stated in a press release that Amaya was beforehand arrested in the identical county in 2009 and charged with second-degree rape. He was deported in 2013 and 2018, albeit from different states.
Regardless of the high-profile circumstances in Maryland, Gov. Wes Moore advised Fox Information Digital the state has seen “important drops” in violent crimes.
“Our legislation enforcement officers work onerous every single day, in coordination with federal companions, to root out violent crime in our state. That is precisely what occurred on this case, and what we do every single day to maintain Marylanders protected – maintain perpetrators accountable for his or her crimes, no matter immigration standing,” Moore added, referring to the Guerra case.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Van Hollen, DHS and ICE for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
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