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Murderer, 4 Rapists and Other Criminal Aliens Deported by US
June 23, 2006 10:48 PM EST


by Jim Kouri - MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- The Department of Homeland Security announced that they deported 71 illegal aliens, including a convicted murderer and four rapists. All were returned to Mexico by agents from DHS' Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau, according to a DHS report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

The five convicted criminals were among 71 illegal aliens deported to Mexico and seven others transferred to Oakdale, Louisiana for upcoming removal to Guatemala and El Salvador. The Salvadoran is a documented member of the violent MS-13 gang.

Of the 71 transported to the U.S.-Mexico border, 31 had criminal convictions for such crimes as: forgery, drug offenses, theft, escape from custody, drunken driving, aiding an accomplice, criminal sexual conduct and murder.

In the six-month period beginning Oct. 1, ICE deported 1,423 illegal aliens to 55 different countries from the five-state area that includes: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Of that number, 627 had criminal convictions in addition to being immigration law violators.

During fiscal year 2005, ICE deported 3,060 illegal aliens from the same geographic area, 1,368 of them with criminal convictions. Nationally, ICE removed 167,700 aliens in fiscal year 2005; of that number, 84,300 were criminal aliens.

Among those deported yesterday was Eliseo Espinosa-Mata, 41, a citizen of Mexico, who illegally entered the U.S. in 1978. He shot his roommate in the back of the head as he slept in a Minneapolis apartment they shared in 1982. Espinosa-Mata fled the Twin Cities, but surrendered nearly 14 years later to Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies.

He was found guilty of second-degree murder in November 1998 in Hennepin County District Court and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Espinosa-Mata was released from prison June 6, 2006 and turned over to ICE for deportation. ICE agents routinely work with prisons to ensure that criminal aliens are released to ICE custody after they serve their sentences.

Four of those deported to Mexico yesterday pleaded guilty in December 2004 to third-degree criminal sexual conduct, which is defined by Minnesota statute as engaging in sexual penetration using force or coercion. The four, who were each sentenced to 36 months in prison, are Fidel Ramirez-Alcantar, 22; Javier Pena-Cantoran, 25; Jose Luis Aguilera-Lemus, 22; and Daniel Gonzalez-Esparza, 20. All had illegally entered the United States.

Court documents filed in Olmsted County District Court describe the June 2004 incident in which the four men sexually assaulted a woman in a Rochester, Minn., apartment while the victim's 3-year-old son was in the room.