Illegal immigrant wanted for murder deported via ICE Air
An illegal immigrant from El Salvador wanted back home for murder was deported via ICE Air after being caught in Framingham.
Marvin Alexander Figueroa-Mazariego, 40, was flown on a charter flight coordinated by ICE Air Operations from Alexandria, La., to the El Salvador International Airport in San Salvador earlier this month.
He was turned over to Salvadoran authorities upon arrival, Homeland Security officials report.
“We’re very grateful that together with our HSI partners this dangerous fugitive who sought to avoid justice in his home country was removed from New England,” said Todd M. Lyons, Field Office Director, ERO Boston.
Lyons added: “We remain committed to seeking out and removing any illegally present criminal fugitives who think they can evade the law. Our focus will always be on those who continue to pose a potential threat by hiding in our communities in Massachusetts.”
ICE agents arrested Figueroa-Mazariego in July 2019 in Framingham. He appealed his deportation and was handed over to authorities in his native land Dec. 18, according to Homeland Security offiials.
As the Herald has previously reported, ICE Air uses Boeing 737s owned and operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or similar jets chartered by ICE to deport illegal criminal immigrants.
“We call it ICE Air, similar to ‘Con Air,’ ” an official told the Herald following the announcement of the 32 illegal immigrants caught in a sting in the summer of 2019. “Con Air” was a popular movie starring Nicolas Cage, who plays a soon-to-be-paroled convict who helps quell an uprising on a prisoner transport plane.
ICE Air flights leave out of Pease Air National Guard Base in Portsmouth, N.H. Trips are made to staging areas in Louisiana and Texas. Those being deported are then flown to Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Africa and elsewhere as needed, the official said.
Illegal immigrants being deported where ICE Air does not fly have been taken to Iraq, Germany and Israel by ICE agents, the Herald was told.
It’s all part of the agency’s mission to deport accused and convicted criminals who are caught again after already being told they are in the country illegally.
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