U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took five suspected illegal aliens into federal custody at Maine’s Cumberland County Jail on Monday.
Booking records at the Cumberland County Jail show that five inmates booked at the jail in a single day on Monday, Jan. 27, have a judicial status that indicates the inmate is in the custody of ICE or has had an immigration detainer lodged against them.
ICE lodges immigration detainers against unlawfully present noncitizens who have been arrested on criminal charges and who the agency has probable cause to believe are deportable from the U.S.
Those individuals taken into custody by ICE at the jail were:
- Mauricio Romeu, 45, no residence given;
- Claudia Murcia, 45, of El Salvador;
- Zeneyda Barrera Hernandez, 18, no residence given;
- Maria Rodezno-Marin, 36, of Honduras;
- Joselyn Ramon Granda, 22, of Philipsburg, Penn.
The judicial status of “INS” means that the inmate is in ongoing removal or other immigration proceedings, or is subject to an ICE immigration detainer.
When the arresting agency is listed as INS, it means that ICE was the agency that brought the inmate to the jail for some sort of federal hold.
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The Maine Wire reported in August that ICE had designated Cumberland County Jail as being in “limited cooperation” with the agency and their detainers.
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce has said that while it has been his policy not to comply with ICE detainers since 2017, the jail regularly holds inmates of ICE.
“We work very well with ICE and we hold their inmates on a routine basis,” Joyce told the Maine Wire in August.
While the jail stopped honoring ICE detainers in 2017, Sheriff Joyce said ICE agents come to the jail to arrest the inmate themselves to ensure the agency has probable cause for taking that inmate into custody.
The five arrests on Monday come just a week after President Donald Trump took office and signed a series of executive orders aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
ICE has been posting daily updates on the number of illegal aliens they have arrested and detained each day of the Trump administration.
This Monday, ICE posted that they had arrested 1,179 individuals and lodged 853 detainers — the highest daily total so far, and of which the arrests at the Cumberland County Jail were part.
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Well ALRIGHT. TIME TO CELEBRATE .
Get these people out of here . We didn’t need them in the first place .
Time to clean this place up !
Tom Homan Rocks !
A few less New Americans, lots and lots more to go.
Goon News .
This is just the BEGINNING . If these illegals had a brain they’d head south before Homan finds them .
The Current Rulers in Lewiston do not have these brains . Their turn for a bus ride is coming right up .
The lawyer from the ACLU should go back to high school and take a lesson or two about WWII. For attorneys they failed the test.
Three cheers for Sherrif Joyce!
I really hope this state get rid of all the illegal aliens and makes all of the people that are going against federal law the examples of what law is all about (i.e. the government of Maine)
Well ICE please take Janit with you!
low hanging fruit
Wonder how many of these illegal foreigners voted in the last election, and with the northern district coming down to RANK CHOICE VOTING between Golden and Theriault, illegals voting makes a difference. I say ADIOS! GOODBYE! SOYONARA! AU REVOIR! AUF WEIDERSEHEN! ARRIVEDERCI!
ICE should check the immigration status of the fake lawyers at Drummond Woodsum.
Now stick a demoKKKrat under each arm and throw them out of the country.
Can we depart the ACLU lawyers also? You know, to represent the illegals in their home countries.
God Bless President Trump and Tom Homan.
Thanks you ICE!!!
I saw an army cargo plane landing in Portland the other day, just like the ones that are flying deportations out of the country.
When are people going to have a clue if you are in the country illegally. It is a crime no matter what.. Why is everyone trying to save all these people that don’t belong here
A bunch of fascist assholes are commenting on this.