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    13 arrested in Operation Matador formally flagged by ICE

    13 arrested in Operation Matador formally flagged by ICE




    Thirteen of 16 gang members arrested during Operation Matador on March 3 were booked into the Santa Barbara County Jail and have been formally flagged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

    Kelly Hoover, spokesperson for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, confirmed Thursday that ICE had asked the Sheriff's Office to notify them prior to any of the inmates' release, so that ICE could enact follow-up enforcement action depending on their immigration status.

    The three suspects that have not yet been formally flagged by ICE are Marcos Manuel Sanchez Torres, Rafael Castro Lainez and Jose Bonilla-Mejia. Lainez is currently detained in Oxnard and Bonilla-Mejila is awaiting extradition in Ohio.

    Operation Matador was a collaborative, multi-agency effort that involved search warrants being served and arrests being made simultaneously in Santa Maria, Bakersfield and other cities. Forty others who have been active or committed crimes in the Santa Maria area were also detained.

    All 16 defendants are linked to the international gang MS-13, and will appear on March 18 for arraignment in Santa Maria Superior Court. All are from El Salvador or Honduras, according to Police Chief Ralph Martin, although at the time of the arrests he would not say whether they were documented or undocumented.

    Virginia Kice, ICE spokesperson, said that under ICE's Priority Enforcement Program, the agency seeks the custody of individuals when their criminal histories meet the Department of Homeland Security's civil immigration enforcement criteria.

    Although the California TRUST Act (effective Jan. 1, 2014) ruled that an inmate cannot be held in jail based on their immigration status, ICE's Priority Enforcement Program states that if an individual's criminal history meets the criteria, the agency can file a request for notification that would give them the opportunity to take the individual into custody.

    The final determination on deportation rests with the nation's immigration courts.




    "When ICE files requests for notification on the release of local inmates, the agency does not seek to preemptively take custody of these individuals —rather, the agency waits until the inmates are slated for release by local authorities," said Kice. "We don't flag these cases or requests for notifications on their releases unless our investigation indicates that an inmate is removable. Some may have legal authorization to be here.

    "We don't look at these inmates as being either documented or undocumented — they are flagged because we believe, through assessment of their criminal history, they are qualified to be deported from the country," said Kice.

    According to Kice, if any of the inmates have been previously deported, they may be reinstated for formal removal, then be expatriated to their native countries.

    The DHS's immigration enforcement criteria includes individuals previously convicted of significant crimes, known members of criminal street gangs and individuals believed to pose a threat to public safety or domestic security.

    Questions about ICE's immigration enforcement policies were raised last summer when one of the two men charged with raping and beating Marilyn Pharis in her Santa Maria house in July 2015 was found to be an undocumented immigrant with a history of arrests going back as far as 2009. Pharis died from her injuries, and the case garnered national attention, leading people around the country to ask why Martinez was not deported earlier.

    The suspect, Victor Aureliano Martinez, of Mexico, has a record of being arrested on suspicion of serious crimes but was never charged with a felony before the attack on Pharis.

    As a result of a 2014 arrest on suspicion of a felony assault with intent to commit sexual assault, ICE officials asked the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office to notify them of Martinez's release date from prison.

    The agency did not issue a detainer request after Martinez's arrest in the Pharis case, because there were no prior felony convictions in his criminal history.

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