U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Philadelphia removed 90 Central Asian individuals on April 29 as part of a coordinated effort involving more than 130 people total. The repatriation flight merged with another group in New York before continuing to Uzbekistan on April 30, carrying removable aliens from various parts of the country.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Jose Luis Romero Diaz, a citizen of Ecuador with a final order of removal, to Ecuador on March 25. Romero is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Ecuador for rape, trafficking in controlled substances and theft. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested Romero on November 20, 2023, near El Paso, Texas, and he was later transferred to ICE Philadelphia at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Luis Gerardo Pelaez Llivichuzca, an Ecuadorian citizen with a final removal order who was wanted by his home country for murder, on March 25. The individual was arrested during a targeted enforcement action in New York on February 11 and subsequently transferred to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, while removal proceedings were underway.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Julio Cesar Henao-Cordoba, a 38-year-old Colombian citizen wanted by Panama for aggravated rape of a minor, outside his residence in State College on March 14. Henao had been previously encountered by Border Patrol in 2022 and was enrolled in an alternatives to detention program before being detained following this arrest.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Philadelphia removed Jeovann Anthony Forde, a citizen of Jamaica with a final order of removal, to his home country on March 27. Forde is a foreign fugitive wanted by law enforcement authorities in Jamaica for murder. An immigration judge in Philadelphia ordered Forde removed from the United States to Jamaica.
ICE New England administratively arrested an illegally present Guatemalan national who had recently been charged and released on bond in the State of Rhode Island for allegedly engaging a minor for the purpose of sex. Josue Santiago Perez Gomez, 29, was taken into ICE custody on July 12, one day after he was arrested by local authorities in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on charges of patronizing a minor for commercial sex, indecent solicitation of a child, and procurement of sexual conduct for a fee.
A federal grand jury in Rhode Island has indicted Manuel Yochuzga-Yopangue, a/k/a Manuel Yupangui, 34, a citizen of Ecuador, on a charge of illegal re-entry after having been previously deported in August 2008. He came to the attention of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through an automated biometric fingerprint match following his arrest on state child molestation charges in May 2025. The case was announced by Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Paul F. Daly, Jr.
A federal grand jury in Rhode Island has indicted Miguel Tamup-Tamup, a/k/a Miguel US Tamup, 28, an illegally present Guatemalan national, on two counts of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, or interfering with federal officers engaged in official duties. He allegedly struggled with an ICE deportation officer and Homeland Security Investigations agents as they attempted to apprehend him pursuant to an arrest warrant on April 30, 2024, and an HSI agent suffered a serious injury during the encounter. Prior to the federal charges, Tamup-Tamup had been arrested on April 19, 2025 on a charge of driving under the influence after his car allegedly collided with another vehicle.
Pedro Andony Alvarado Aguilar, 46, a Guatemalan national previously convicted in federal court in Connecticut on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine and heroin, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island to a charge of illegal re-entry. He was deported on July 1, 2015 following his 2014 drug trafficking conviction, but immigration officers identified him in April 2025 through an automated biometric fingerprint match after his arrest in Rhode Island for driving on a suspended license.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed a 29-year-old illegal Brazilian fugitive, Juliano Araujo Dos Santos Silva, who was wanted by authorities to serve more than five years in prison for an armed robbery conviction in his native country. ICE Boston removed him from the United States to Brazil on March 27 and turned him over to Brazilian authorities. A Brazilian criminal court had convicted Araujo of armed robbery with a firearm on Oct. 2, 2017 and sentenced him to five years and four months in prison; he had subsequently entered the United States illegally in 2019 and attempted to evade justice by hiding in New England.
