ICE arrests illegal immigrant facing rape charge after his release under New York Cit

ICE arrests illegal immigrant facing rape charge after his release under New York City 'sanctuary status'

by Andrew Mark Miller
| March 05, 2020 11:14 AM


Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended a man, accused of raping a teenage girl, who was released under New York City’s "sanctuary status" despite the agency’s request to hold him.

Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam, a 20-year-old Guatemalan national, was arraigned Friday on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl five times in 2018. However, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office did not ask for bail, and the judge decided to cut him loose on supervised release.

ICE, which had issued a detainer asking the city to keep Ajqui-Ajtzalam jailed, was able to track him days later, bringing him into federal custody on Monday.

“It’s inconceivable that an individual who was arrested on local charges of rape and sexual abuse of a child would be released back into the community,” New York ICE official Thomas Decker said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s frightening that our detainer was ignored and he was released on to New York city streets to possibly re-offend.”

Ajqui-Ajtzalam entered the United States illegally in 2016 as “an unaccompanied alien child." He was released while awaiting deportation proceedings and went on the run, according to ICE. It was during that time that he allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl multiple times.

“The case was reported by the girl’s mother, alleging that her daughter had a sexual relationship with an older teenager, which constituted statutory rape,” a spokesman told the New York Post.

Ajqui-Ajtzalam faces charges that include second-degree rape, sexual misconduct, and endangering the welfare of a child.

The New York Police Department responded to the arrest by saying it does not conduct “civil immigration enforcement” and will only honor ICE detainers if the agency presents a warrant from a federal judge establishing probable cause. The person must additionally have been convicted of a “violent or serious crime” within five years of arrest or be on the terror watch list.

ICE has long been butting heads with New York City, and the agency recently slammed local officials for ignoring a detainer request and releasing a Guyanese national who later raped and murdered a 92-year-old woman.

“It was a deadly choice to release a man on an active ICE detainer back onto the streets after his first arrest included assault and weapon charges, and he now faces new charges, including murder,” ICE officer Thomas Decker said about the killing.

According to ICE, Enforcement and Removal Operations officers removed or returned over 267,000 illegal immigrants in 2019 and arrested 143,000, over 85% of whom had criminal convictions or pending charges.

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entered the United States illegally in 2016 as “an unaccompanied alien child."

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These "unaccompanied alien children" are the next ticking time bomb for this country and will be a massive problem of more crime, overbreeding in poverty, and hate for this country. We are not doing them any service by keeping them on our soil. They resent it, it will cause a lot of mental problems and they need to be sent back to relatives in their countries.

Every one of them need to be processed and sent back home within 48 hours.

These "alien children" are not U.S. citizens, they are not ours to keep or release, and it is kidnapping to keep them here. Send them over into the care and custody of their country.