Immigration sweep nets 9 from Hudson
Monday, July 02, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Nine Hudson County residents have been picked up in a number of recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps that captured 131 people, including a Dominican national with a criminal record living in Kearny, officials said.

During June, ICE fugitive operations teams fanned out across the state to capture 71 criminal and fugitive non-documented residents, and during the investigations also arrested 60 other people who were in the county illegally, said Adam Puharic, spokesman for the Newark ICE office.

Among the criminals caught was Ricardo Anthony Rondon, 31, of Kearny, a Dominican national who has a 2000 conviction for drug possession with intent to distribute, and a 2002 conviction for aggravated assault, Puharic said.

Also caught were a 22-year-old man, 27-year-old man and 20-year-old man, all Mexican nationals, as well as a 28-year-old man from Costa Rica, all living in Kearny; a 33-year-old El Salvadoran man and 31-year-old Guatemalan man arrested in Union City; a 32-year-old El Salvadoran man arrested in West New York; and a 39-year-old Guyanese woman arrested in Jersey City, Puharic said.

"Our officers continue to work hard to ensure that the United States doesn't become a safe haven for criminal aliens," said Field Office Director Scott Weber. "There can be no doubt that our streets and communities are safer without these known criminal aliens."

ICE officials said the fugitives arrested will remain in ICE custody pending their removal from the country, while the others arrested have been placed in immigration removal proceedings.

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