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From the New York Post: A Dominican drug dealer previously deported for peddling fentanyl was seen breaking down in tears as she was arrested while illegally back in the US.
Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, 36, was sobbing as agents arrested her in Philadelphia last Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
A US magistrate judge issued a federal warrant for her arrest on the same day a notice of intent to reinstate a final removal order against her was to be served.
Basora-Gonzalez had been kicked out of the U.S. by the first Trump administration, but apparently had snuck back in during the Biden administration. In a press release, ICE shared the following details about her history:
The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested and charged Basora-Gonzalez in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with attempted possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and aiding and abetting on June 6, 2019. Basora-Gonzalez was sentenced to 12 months and one day confinement and four years of supervised release March 12, 2020, after pleading guilty to the charges.
ICE removed Basora-Gonzalez from the United States to the Dominican Republic on Oct. 6, 2020.
According to the Daily Mail, a ‘confidential source’ alerted ICE that Basora-Gonzalez was back in the country on March 7, 2025. Agents nabbed her outside a Philadelphia restaurant where she was working as a cook.
“This 36-year-old citizen of the Dominican Republic has a rap sheet that includes a fentanyl trafficking conviction. Fentanyl kills 250K Americans a year,” ICE announced, sharing photos from the recent arrest.
This 36-year-old citizen of the Dominican Republic has a rap sheet that includes a fentanyl trafficking conviction.
📊Fentanyl kills 250K Americans a year.
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☎️Report suspicious criminal activity: 866-DHS-2-ICE pic.twitter.com/2DdXePvzXI— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) March 17, 2025
Bye! No fentanyl in the U.S.!
Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking, was arrested by @ICEgov in Philadelphia after illegally reentering the U.S.https://t.co/hoByYqV6CF pic.twitter.com/fZr5HVGkOT
— Linda Marie Lovison (@lilo623) March 18, 2025
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