The Home Judiciary Committee requested info on greater than a dozen unlawful immigrants accused of committing severe crimes inside the US.
The Home Judiciary Committee has accused Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of refusing to adjust to requests for information on unlawful immigrants accused of great crimes in the US.
“DHS’s failure to supply the Committee with the requested paperwork is unacceptable and prevents the Committee from fulfilling its constitutional oversight obligations,” reads the Committee’s April 11 letter to Mr. Mayorkas.
The Committee stated it had made a number of unfilled requests relationship again to October 2023.
“The Committee beforehand wrote to the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) for varied paperwork and data, together with the manufacturing of alien information (A-Information) and associated immigration case info for a number of alleged prison unlawful aliens,” the letter continues. “Nevertheless, thus far, DHS has didn’t adjust to the Committee’s requests.”
The requests embrace paperwork associated to Venezuelan nationals Diego Ibarra and Argenis Ibarra. The boys are brothers of Jose Ibarra, the unlawful immigrant accused of murdering 22-year-old Georgia nursing scholar Laken Riley in February.
“Though Diego Ibarra had Tren de Aragua gang-affiliated tattoos on his physique and ‘brokers from Homeland Safety Investigations discovered social media accounts the place Ibarra flashed gang hand indicators,’ the Biden Administration launched Diego Ibarra and ‘positioned [him] in [an] Options to Detention program (ATD).’”
In keeping with the letter, Diego Ibarra was faraway from the ATD program in late Could 2023 after his ankle monitor was found on the aspect of the street in Littleton, Colorado. He has been related to a number of crimes, together with shoplifting and driving beneath the affect.
Additionally they requested for paperwork associated to Venezuelan nationwide Daniel Hernandez Martinez, who allegedly “randomly attacked three strangers and two law enforcement officials in New York Metropolis” shortly after he got here to the US.
The letter states that Mr. Martinez had “gotten arrested—and launched—six instances on 14 completely different prices inside two months of his arrival in New York Metropolis.” The Committee requested the paperwork initially on Oct. 30 and adopted up on these requests on Nov. 13 and Jan. 25.
The lawmakers need info on 4 males, Carlos Carreno-Carreno, Wilker Guiterrez Sierra, Yonnier Guasamucare-Garcia, and Fernando Loyo-Rodriguez, who had been “charged with theft and aggravated battery by strangulation” in a Chicago practice theft.
Additionally they requested the paperwork of Pierre Lucard Emile, a Haitian nationwide who was arrested and charged with raping a developmentally disabled individual in Boston. Mr. Emile had entered the US. by way of the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry in December 2022, “the place he was deemed inadmissible,” however was launched by DHS after being “issued a discover to seem earlier than an immigration choose … in Boston.”
The Committee requested for the case paperwork associated to Angel Matias Castellanos-Orellana. The Honduran nation was arrested in Kenner, Louisiana, and charged with the “brutal assault of a 14-year-old lady” and the “stabbing of a person throughout a theft.”
The requests embrace a Columbian nationwide who was a optimistic match on the fear watchlist, a Venezuelan accused of assaulting a 14-year-old lady, and a Haitian nationwide who was arrested in reference to the assault of a disabled 15-year-old lady, amongst others.
DHS has denied claims that it has didn’t adjust to congressional requests for paperwork. An official informed Fox Information that it has supplied greater than 75 witnesses throughout 50 hearings and over 28,000 pages of paperwork in response to letters from lawmakers.
“These requests are extremely time consuming,” the official reportedly informed Fox on Monday. “A-Information might be hundreds of pages lengthy and should sometimes be redacted for a variety of knowledge together with Legislation Enforcement Delicate info that would jeopardize ongoing investigations, non-public details about junior DHS workers, and lawyer shopper info.”