ICE Arrests and Deports Wanted Criminals Among 'Gotaways'

Illegal Immigrants Wanted for Serious Crimes in Home Countries Arrested in U.S.. ICE

ICE has arrested and deported Juan Martinez Merida, a Mexican illegal immigrant wanted for murder in Mexico, who had been detained seven times at the border before escaping into the U.S.
ICE has also arrested Saulo Cardona Ferreira, a Brazilian illegal immigrant wanted in his home country for failing to serve a prison sentence for raping a 5-year-old child, in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Ferreira had received multiple criminal convictions in Brazil in 2019 for raping the child and had been sentenced to 14 years in prison, but he had fled the country.
Both Merida and Ferreira are examples of 'gotaways', illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. without going through official checkpoints or making any contact with Border Patrol officers.
More than 600,000 'gotaways' were reported in the last fiscal year, and more than 1,000 are being recorded each day in the new fiscal year.