ICE deports illegal immigrant convicted of attempting to kill newborn after blue state prison release
One illegal immigrant A woman convicted of attempting to murder her newborn baby on New York’s Long Island has been successfully deported from the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Soili Xiomara Aparicio-Santos, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was deported. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from New York in April. The agency said he was deported after serving just eight years in a New York prison sentence for attempted infanticide.
Aparicio-Santos entered the country illegally Obama administration There has been a final expulsion decision against him since 2014.
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He was convicted in 2018 of attempted second-degree murder, attempted first- and second-degree assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Although he was originally sentenced to 16 years in prison for his crime, Aparicio-Santos’ sentence was reduced to 10 years and he served only eight years of that sentence, DHS said. But DHS said local authorities cooperated with ICE and notified the agency before the release, allowing federal agents to make the arrest.
Soili Xiomara Aparicio-Santos, an illegal immigrant from Honduras convicted of attempted murder, was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on April 15.
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The 41-year-old lived in Centereach, New York, in Suffolk County on Long Island. Daily Voice reported.
Media reported in 2017 that Aparicio-Santos tried to kill her son by smothering him with a pillow. A family member noticed his behavior and called the police. The child reportedly avoided serious injury and was placed in foster care.
ICE applied for the first time immigration detainee Aparicio-Santos’ arrest warrant following his arrest by Suffolk County police in 2017 for first-degree reckless endangerment. The agency later requested a second arrest while he was serving his sentence in 2018, DHS said.
DHS deputy secretary Lauren Bis praised local Long Island officials who cooperated with ICE to eliminate Aparicio-Santos.
“Thanks to the cooperation of law enforcement and our ICE officers, this barbaric criminal is out of our country,” Bis said in a DHS news release.
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The Department of Homeland Security filed an immigration detainer in 2017.
“This monster tried to kill his own child the day he was born,” Bis said.
He criticized the Obama administration for “unleashing this murderous enterprise on our country.”
Bis emphasized that DHS “needs the cooperation of state and local politicians to remove criminals like these from our country,” adding: “Together we can make America safe again.”
The counties of Suffolk and Nassau, New York, both majority-controlled by Republicans, stand in stark contrast to their neighbors New York City in their approach to cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.
Suffolk County is currently fighting a $112 million federal grand jury verdict after courts found the county violated constitutional rights by holding inmates past their release dates solely to comply with ICE detention requests.
Suffolk Attorney Thomas Dewey criticized the decision. New York Post “The jury’s unreasonable and unfair compensation verdict is unacceptable.”
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DHS said in its statement that seven of the 10 safest cities in the United States are cooperating with ICE.
The agency said partnerships with federal immigration enforcement and local law enforcement are “critical to ensuring DHS has the resources it needs to apprehend illegal criminals across the country.”
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“When politicians ban local law enforcement from working with DHS, law enforcement needs to have a more visible presence to find and arrest criminals who are leaving prisons and returning to communities,” the agency said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to New York’s Suffolk County Police Department and Sheriff’s Office for comment.
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