An El Salvadoran unlawful immigrant needed for allegedly sexually assaulting a toddler has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts, after an area sheriff’s workplace ignored a detainer to carry him.

ICE stated its Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO) Boston arrested 55-year-old Hugo Israel Ruiz on Dec. 17 on felony fees of indecent assault and battery on a toddler underneath the age of 14, including that he stays in custody pending immigration and felony proceedings.

The Revere Police Division arrested Ruiz on Aug. 22, and his listening to was held on the Chelsea District Court docket.

The courtroom allowed Ruiz to be launched from the Nashua Avenue Jail on bail, regardless of an immigration detainer requesting ICE be notified of his launch.

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ICE arrested Hugo Israel Ruiz, and unlawful immigrant needed on fees of indecent assault and battery on a toddler underneath 14, on Dec. 17, 2024, after a courtroom in Suffolk County, Massachusetts didn’t honor ICE’s detainer and launched him on bail. (ICE)

However the sheriff’s workplace that operates the jail ignored the detainer, releasing Ruiz into the general public with out notifying ICE.

“ERO Boston will take each alternative to establish, find and take into custody felony noncitizens going through felony fees and maintain them in custody till their felony and immigration proceedings are resolved,” ERO Boston appearing Area Workplace Director Patricia H. Hyde stated. “Not solely is that this our mission, additionally it is the lawful factor to do.”

In October 2019, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Division terminated its contract with ICE, and as an alternative selected to shift assets because of the rising inhabitants of ladies coming into the Suffolk County Home of Correction, in response to a press release from Sheriff Steve Thompkins on the time.

“We’re ending our contract with ICE to reallocate our assets in direction of serving to native girls to handle long-standing points which have contributed to their involvement within the felony justice system,” Tompkins stated within the assertion. “Our gender-specific programming, which is among the many greatest within the nation, permits us to handle these points, which embody home violence, sexual exploitation and substance use issues, to call just a few.”

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An exterior view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) company headquarters is seen July 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S.  (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)

The assertion, which seems on his marketing campaign web site, famous that the contract with ICE to accommodate federal immigration detainees was first signed in 2003. The then appearing director of ICE ERO Boston stated the company was upset by the sheriff’s choice after sharing a “mutually useful” partnership for over a decade.

The newest arrest comes as Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has stated that her state police will “completely not” be cooperating with the anticipated mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, warning that she is going to use “each software within the toolbox” to “shield” residents within the blue state.

President-elect Trump has pledged to launch the “largest home deportation operation in American historical past” to deport thousands and thousands of unlawful immigrants. One report by the Heart for Immigration Research (CIS) estimated 50,000 migrants have arrived within the state since 2021.

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a morning press convention asserting vital motion associated to the state’s emergency shelter system. (Picture by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures) (Picture by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures)

“I do assume it is necessary that all of us acknowledge that there’s going to be plenty of stress on states and state officers. I can guarantee you we will work laborious to ship,” Healey stated following President-elect Trump’s resounding election win final month.

Final 12 months, Healey declared a state of emergency within the state because of the surge and referred to as for federal motion. She additionally acknowledged that the state’s insurance policies could also be a draw for migrants.

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“Many of those households are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn right here as a result of we’re and proudly have been a beacon to these in want,” she wrote in a letter to Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.