NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Axel Ramirez-Hernandez, a 32-year-old Guatemalan national, in Spring Valley on Wednesday. He was taken into custody on a criminal warrant for illegal reentry after deportation.
Ramirez-Hernandez has prior convictions for sexual assault of a minor and illegal reentry into the United States.
“ICE is committed to apprehending predators who commit horrific acts of violence against our youngest citizens and residents,” said William P. Joyce, acting field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City.
Authorities say Ramirez-Hernandez first entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown time and place. In 2012, an immigration judge ordered his removal, and he was deported to Guatemala the following month. In 2013, he illegally reentered the U.S. in Texas, where he was arrested by Border Patrol. He was deported again in 2014 but later returned unlawfully at an unknown time and place.
Ramirez-Hernandez was convicted in Connecticut in 2011 of sexually assaulting a minor and sentenced to five years in prison, followed by supervised release and probation. In 2014, a Texas federal court convicted him of illegal reentry after deportation, leading to an 18-month prison sentence. He also faces pending charges for driving while intoxicated in Ramapo, New York.
A convicted child sex offender and repeat illegal entrant is back in ICE custody and facing deportation again.