ICE Arrests Criminal Illegal Immigrant Released by NYPD Despite Detainer, DHS Says

There are more than 7,000 illegal immigrants in custody in New York with active detainer requests from ICE.

Mexican illegal immigrant Gerardo Miguel-Mora, in an undated photograph. Courtesy of the DHS

A previously deported illegal immigrant convicted of burglary in 2012 was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in New York City on Friday after local officials refused to honor an ICE detainer request, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Feb. 2 statement.

The Mexican man, Gerardo Miguel-Mora, was arrested and charged with rape, strangulation, assault, forcible touching, burglary, and disorderly conduct in 2011, after he had entered the United States illegally on an unknown date, according to DHS. He was convicted of burglary by the New York State Supreme Court in 2012.