ICE detained yet another Cumberland County Corrections Officer on Saturday after reportedly determining that he had overstayed his visa.
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Maine Public first reported the arrest, citing a statement it received from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saying that it arrested the Angolan CO, Nilton Ribeiro, on Saturday.
The DHS reportedly told the taxpayer-funded outlet that Ribeiro entered the country on a temporary visa in 2022 that allowed him to remain in the country until the following year, but that he subsequently overstayed that visa.
Cumberland Sheriff Kevin Joyce told the outlet that Ribeiro was a very good employee and that he passed a polygraph test during the hiring process.
The Maine Wire reached out to Joyce and the DHS for more details.
“ICE arrested Nilton Ribeiro on Friday or early Saturday morning. Mr. Ribeiro has been a corrections officer at the Cumberland County Jail for three years. He has been a very good corrections officer during his tenure at the Cumberland County Jail. Ribeiro went through a rigorous hiring process that included a background check, a polygraph, and he possessed a valid I-9 form,” said Joyce in a statement.
DHS did not immediately respond.
Ribeiro remained in ICE custody as of Thursday afternoon, though detention records do not show where he is being held.
According to GovSalaries, Ribeiro drew $116,807 in wages last year from his job with Cumberland County.
Ribeiro’s arrest adds to the increasing number of Cumberland corrections officers who have been detained by ICE.
In June, ICE detained CO Billy Bassikissa Bounguiena after a Cumberland Corrections recruit had already been detained in January.
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Also in January, ICE detained Angolan York County Corrections Officer Mauro Inacio Bernardo, though he has since been released.
If you do not renew your VISA, then your I-9 is void. The VISA is what keeps your status not the I-9.
Also,.please tell me how the background check is rigorous if he is from Angola? Did Cumberland County send an employee to Angola to complete the background check?
If you print stories like this, make sure you know 8 USC, Immigration law completely. This way you have more infirmation. These stories are starting to look more like a hit on ICE than news. I am ashamed of the Maine Wire.
Learn all of the law. People draw conclusions and the left uses information like this to try and make ICE look bad. Then they protest and attack ICE agents when they have no legal basis to do so.
Maine is a ruined state. It is only going to get worse. This is what happens when people sit an complain instead of getting off their behinds and educating themselves.
Two words for EVERYONE in this country illegally, no matter what the reason – GET OUT!