ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of child rape after release from Massachusetts court

Court officials allowed an illegal immigrant in Massachusetts accused of raping a minor back into the community, even though he Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents were hot on his trail to detain him, Newsweek reported Thursday. The illegal immigrant is currently in federal custody. 

Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas, a 38-year-old Guatemalan national, illegally entered the US as one in tens of millions of “gotaways,” illegals who cross the border and aren’t apprehended and deported. He was charged in June with aggravated forcible rape of a child in Massachusetts.



Immigration officers finally caught up with Hernandez-Rodas in Lowell, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, according to a statement from ERO Boston and he is currently in custody.

"Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas stands accused of horrific crimes against a Massachusetts child," ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde said in a statement on Tuesday. "He represents a significant danger to the children of our community that we will not tolerate."

ERO has yet to determine when the illegal immigrant crossed into US. Hernandez-Rodas was arrested by Lowell police on June 20 for aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child with force while on June 28 ERO, a section of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said he was wanted for being in the country illegally.

But after his arraignment on the rape charges at Middlesex County Superior Court he was let go because the court "ignored ERO Boston's immigration detainer and released Hernandez-Rodas from custody on an unknown date." According to the outlet, which noted that the man was already an ex-con, having been in a Connecticut prison.

In September 2011 Hernandez-Rodas was convicted of breach of peace in Bridgeport District Court and spent six months in prison. He followed that up in May 2016 with Norwalk District Court finding him guilty of another breach of peace and giving him a $100 fine.

The rate of deportation of convicted criminal illegal immigrants in the United States has plummeted by 74 percent under the Biden-Harris administration, even though it has allowed tens of millions of illegals into the country.