ICE removes man wanted for homicide in Mexico

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have removed from San Antonio to Mexico a noncitizen who is wanted for homicide, the agency said Wednesday.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers returned Juvenal Arroyo Hernandez, 48, on April 25, the agency said.

“Noncitizens who have committed crimes in their home countries will find no refuge in the U.S.,” ERO San Antonio Field Office Director Corey Price said.

Officials say Arroyo illegally entered the United States near Del Rio, Texas, in May 1988, and U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended him and he voluntarily returned to Mexico.

Officials said he re-entered near Eagle Pass, Texas, in October 2011, and he again was arrested and a federal court convicted him of entry without permission and sentenced him to 10 days confinement before he was sent back to Mexico.

He was encountered in Austin on April 17 and detained and sent to the Hutto Detention Center to await removal. But that same day, foreign service national investigators in Mexico notified ERO in San Antonio that Arroyo was wanted in Mexico for homicide, the agency says.

He was removed and turned over to Mexican authorities on Thursday “without incident,” according to the agency.

Sandra Sanchez can be reached at SSanchez@BorderReport.com.