ERO El Paso deportation officers turn over a previously removed Mexican fugitive to Mexican authorities

EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers on May 22 removed a previously removed Mexican national wanted in his home country for possessing methamphetamine and firearms.

Miguel Sifuentes Jimenez, 36, was turned over to Mexican authorities on the top of the Stanton Street Bridge on the international boundary between the United States and Mexico.

Sifuentes last illegally entered the United States on May 3, 2021, by walking across the U.S.-Mexico international boundary east of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry near Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The following day, he was processed as a reinstatement of prior order of removal and presented for prosecution. Upon time served, he was released to the streets by the Luna County Detention Center in Deming, New Mexico.

He was first ordered removed from the United States on Jan. 9, 2013, and removed to his home country on Jan. 28, 2013, from Calexico, California. His criminal history in the United States includes convictions in California for felony robbery in 2008, for which he was sentenced to 364 days in jail; aggravated battery/spouse, a misdemeanor, in 2009, for which he was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail; and inflicting corporal injury spouse/cohab, a felony, in 2011, for which he received a two-year sentence.

On May 12, Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers encountered Sifuentes at the Eddy County Detention Center in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he was serving time after being convicted for aggravated battery against a household member/strangulation or suffocation. ERO lodged a detainer and arrested him when he was released from jail that same day.

On May 13, he was charged with alien inadmissibility and alien previously removed as an arriving alien, which is an aggravated felony.

Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE.gov)