Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday arrested an illegal immigrant who had been released on low bail from a custodial jurisdiction after being charged with raping a disabled child.
Deportation officers arrested Corey Bernard Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national who is in the U.S. illegally, near his home in Brockton, Massachusetts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. press releaseAlvarez has been wanted by ICE since he was indicted in March on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl at a migrant housing complex in Massachusetts, which has a “sanctuary” policy regarding ICE cooperation. (Related: Chicago's Brandon Johnson named 'Worst Sanctuary Mayor')
“Cory Bernard Alvarez has been charged with abusing minors in a Massachusetts migrant shelter,” said Todd Lyons, director of Boston's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) office. “He will be brought to justice, and ERO Boston will continue to cooperate with the Massachusetts criminal court system, but we cannot allow foreign nationals who pose a significant threat to children in our communities to potentially reoffend.”
“ERO Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by apprehending and removing violent criminal aliens from New England,” Lyons continued.
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Police in Rockland, Massachusetts, arrested Alvarez, a Haitian national, on March 14 and charged him with raping a disabled 15-year-old girl at a Comfort Inn that was being used as immigrant housing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an immigration detention order against Alvarez with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office later that same day.
Despite the seriousness of the charges, Plymouth County Superior Court in Brockton ignored an ICE detention order for Alvarez and released him on $500 bail, according to ICE.
Deportation officers were able to arrest the Haitian national in Brockton, and he remains in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency confirmed Tuesday.
Alvarez arrived in the United States legally in 2023 through the CHNV program, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program is a mass parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans created by the Biden-Harris administration but was suspended earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after an internal audit uncovered widespread fraud by applicants.
Local officials expressed frustration with the CHNV program in a statement on Tuesday.
“As part of the Alvarez case, our office has repeatedly asked state and federal authorities for months about the details of the CHNV process,” the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. “We have received few answers.”
“It is clear that for good reason the Department of Homeland Security has suspended the issuance of travel authorizations to new CHNV recipients while it conducts a major review of its processes,” Plymouth County continued.
The entire state of Massachusetts, which is currently dealing with a refugee housing crisis,SanctuaryThe Center for Immigration Studies has argued for increased “federal prison jurisdiction” over illegal immigrants, citing a 2017 court decision that largely barred local jails from detaining criminal immigrants at the request of federal immigration authorities.
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