Hundreds of criminal aliens are being arrested daily by ICE officials as part of enforcement operations.
Foreign gang members with criminal histories in the United States who were previously ordered to be removed from the country were recently arrested, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez, “an illegally present 19-year-old Guatemalan gang member charged with drug and weapons crimes,” was apprehended in Boston on Jan. 22, according to a Jan. 29 statement from the agency. The arrest was made by officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston unit.
Meanwhile, ICE ERO officers from Baltimore apprehended a Salvadoran criminal from Hyattsville, Maryland, on Jan. 25. The individual, 19-year-old Anderson Geovany Romero, is a member of the MS-13 foreign terrorist organization, according to the agency.
Guerra was previously arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol in March 2021 after he was found to have illegally entered the United States via the southern border. He was released in May that year.
On Oct. 2, 2024, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge ordered Guerra to be removed from the country and sent back to Guatemala. On Jan. 3, 2025, Guerra was arraigned for offenses of possessing a class D controlled substance, owning a large-capacity weapon/firearm, possessing ammunition, and owning a firearm without a permit.
Subsequently, ICE ERO Boston issued an immigration detainer against Guerra on Jan. 6 with the Nashua Street Jail in Boston. However, the court ignored the detainer request and released him from custody on Jan. 21. Officers from ERO Boston arrested him a day later. Guerra now remains in ERO custody.
Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said that Guerra had shown a “complete disregard for American laws.”
“He is a member of a violent street gang charged with illegally possessing a high-capacity firearm and drugs. We will not tolerate such offenders to threaten the residents of our New England neighborhoods. ERO Boston will continue to arrest and remove egregious alien offenders from our communities,” Hyde said.
Similarly, Romero’s arrest came after Prince George’s County Detention Center failed to honor an immigration detainer and released him.
