An illegal alien truck driver convicted of “careless driving resulting in death” for his responsibility in a fatal crash in Colorado last summer was detained by ICE Sunday immediately upon his release from jail.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized Mexican national Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza moments after his release from a Colorado county jail following a roughly one-year prison sentence, KMGH-TV reported.
“If we weren’t here, this person would have been released back to the community of Denver,” Robert Guadian, Denver ICE field director, said.
This is not the first time that Cruz-Mendoza has been set for deportation. ICE said it had removed the illegal alien from the country twelve times since 2002. It added that the Mexican national had even self-deported four
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