Immigration officials just booted a Dominican-born illegal alien out of the United States and back to his home country after it was discovered he’d been convicted of murder in the Dominican Republic – in 2012.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, 54-year-old Martires Molvan-Figeureo was found guilty of shooting a man unlawfully while he was a member of the Dominican National Police. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison before fleeing to the United States.
However, ICE also stated that Molvan-Figeureo had come into the country legally – meaning that despite having been convicted of a crime and sentenced to two decades in prison in his own country, he was still lawfully admitted into the United States.
The following year, in October of 2013, Interpol issued a red notice for Molvan-Figeureo. Although he’d come into the United States legally, the Dominican man overstayed his visa and had been living in New York until his arrest for immigration violations in January of last year.
Now, more than a year later, Molvan-Figeureo has finally been deported back to the Dominican Republic to face justice.
Contrary to the empty claims made by many left-leaning media talking heads and liberal politicians, the U.S. immigration system has a hefty track record of admitting foreign persons who have criminal records in their home country, largely due to ICE’s inability to run complete background checks against foreign criminal database systems.
Just one month ago, immigration agents arrested a 54-year-old Guatemalan man who’d been living in the United States after it turned out he was a war criminal wanted in connection with the 1982 massacre of more than 200 men, women and children in a small Guatemalan village. Although ICE refused to tell MRCTV how long Jose Mardoqueo Ortiz Morales had lived in the United States, citing “privacy restrictions,” the agency did confirm he was a legal permanent resident when he was arrested.
Another four Guatemalan men linked to the massacre have also been arrested and placed in deportation proceedings since 2010, including two who’d even become naturalized U.S. citizens.
Similarly, ICE officials arrested and recently deported 48-year-old Jose Alberto Orozco-Ramirez, a Costa Rican national who’d been living in the United States since first being admitted as an HB2 non-immigrant worker in 2003. Like millions of other temporary workers allowed into the United States on work visas, Ramirez overstayed his visa and never went home.
If that weren’t bad enough, it turns out that the year before Orozco-Ramirez was legally admitted into the United States, he reportedly raped and impregnated his own underage daughter and fled to the U.S. to avoid arrest. Immigration officials finally picked him up after Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest – but only after he’d spent 14 years in the United States.