Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced the arrest of a law-breaking migrant in Massachusetts who had been in the US illegally for almost two years.
Julio Esteban Batista-Castillo, 24, was charged with kidnapping, malicious destruction of property, burglary and home invasion, in addition to several assault and battery charges. He was arrested by ICE agents in Boston on November 18.
The suspect entered the United States illegally in January 2023, according to an ICE press release issued Tuesday.
In a statement, Patricia Hyde, acting field office director of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston, said Batista-Castillo was taken into custody by ICE after a immigration prisoner was not honored by the Roxbury District Court. The court had charged him before his arrest by ICE.
An exterior view of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters is seen on July 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. US (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“Batista has been charged with very serious crimes, including assault and battery with strangulation and a firearm,” Hyde said. “This is not someone you want to release into the community.”
Hyde added that the court endangered the Boston community by not detaining him.
A law enforcement officer walks past the ICE logo prior to a press conference on Thursday, May 11, 2017, at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, DC. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“ERO Boston filed an immigration detention order against him in Roxbury District Court – a simple request for law enforcement to hold him in custody for a short period of time so that our officers could arrest him in a safe, controlled environment,” she added. “Unfortunately, the detainee was not honored, putting everyone in the community and our officers at risk.”
Batista-Castillo is one of numerous violent migrants apprehended by ICE Boston this year. Belardis Tapia González, an MS-13 gang member charged with second-degree child molestation was arrested by ICE officials in Lynn, Massachusetts on November 18.
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DHS seal next to the letters ICE, which stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Another suspected child predator, Mateo Hincapie Cardona was arrested in Boston by ICE officials in October. He was charged with enticing a child under 16, distributing obscene matter and lasciviously posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
