REPORT: ICE nabs migrant who entered US using controversial program, then released on $500 bail for rape charge

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From the New York Post: A Haitian migrant charged with the rape of a 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel was released on $500 bail last week despite ongoing requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transfer him to its custody.

Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national who was allowed into the US via a controversial parole program that allows up to 30,000 migrants to fly in each month, was charged with aggravated rape of a child in March.

ICE said in a statement that Boston’s branch of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) filed a detainer against Alvarez with the local sheriff’s office March 14. A detainer is a request by which authorities alert ICE about an individual they believe to be subject to deportation so they can take the individual into federal custody and deport that person.

In this case, as in many “sanctuary” jurisdictions, the detainer was not adhered to, and Alvarez was released on bail.


The report explains that Alvarez arrived in the United States in June under the parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV), which allowed a limited number of migrants to fly directly into the US as long as they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor in the US already and passed certain background checks.

Alvarez and the 15-year-old victim were both living at a Comfort Inn hotel in Rockland, which has been converted to a migrant housing center, when the alleged rape occurred.

Prosecutors had requested that bail be set at $25,000, but the judge instead set Alvarez’s bail at $500, on the condition he submit to certain requirements, such as home confinement and other forms of monitoring.

Now ICE has reportedly re-arrested Alvarez.  The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday:

Cory Alvarez, a Haitian national accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a Rockland migrant hotel, was arrested by ICE today, the Herald has learned.

Alvarez, 26, was free on $500 bail after a Plymouth court did not honor a federal immigration detainer. Law enforcement sources say Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers now have him in custody.

He was arrested outside his house in Brockton “unbeknownst to our office,” the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said in an email to the Herald Tuesday afternoon.

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