Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey made it clear early this month that Boston will not cooperate with President-elect Trump’s federal immigration enforcement efforts once he returns to the Oval Office in January. This means, she will not hand over convicted felons to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even if they are child rapists.
ICE office in Boston still did their job. They arrested two illegal immigrants, who have been charged with forcibly raping children, and a third criminal, who was convicted of raping a child in Brazil.
ICE added that one of the suspects, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested for forcible rape of a child, but was released in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by authorities, who ignored a detainer request made by the federal agency to hold or transfer him to federal custody.
The suspect, 21-year-old Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz, entered the U.S. on 24 Septemmber 2020, near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was released by U.S. Border Patrol with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review Judge.
The second suspect, 42-year-old Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos of Colombia, was arrested by Great Barrington police on 8 October 2023, for allegedly raping a child by force, statutory rape and aggravated rape.
Buitrago-Gusto was admitted into the U.S. on 4 May 2016, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, though he failed to leave under the terms of his visa.
The third suspect, 41-year-old Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, is a foreign fugitive convicted of raping a child in Brazil.
He was convicted in the First Criminal Court of Jaru, Rondônia, Brazil, on 10 February 2022, and sentenced to serve 14 years behind bars.
But according to ICE, Romao De Oliveira fled Brazil before he could serve his sentence. On 16 April 2022, Romao De Oliveira entered the U.S. near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, without admission by an immigration official, and was released from custody after being served a notice to appear before a DOJ immigration review judge.