Top city in blue state sees increase in migrant sex offenses amid resistance to Trump's deportation plan.

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of illegal migrants being arrested for sexual offenses in Massachusetts. This is due to the state and city of Boston's decision to oppose President-elect Trump's plan to deport large numbers of people.

In the Boston area, ICE ERO officials have apprehended 26 illegal migrants for committing sex crimes against children, including child rape, sexual assault, and distributing child pornography, since August.

Numerous migrants who were previously deported from the U.S. later reentered the country unlawfully.

On Dec. 3, ICE removed an illegal migrant, Adrian Patricio Huerta-Nivelo, 25, who was wanted for rape of a minor in Ecuador.

The Boston City Council unanimously voted to reaffirm a 2019 measure restricting Boston police's ability to cooperate with ICE in deporting illegal migrants, which aims to protect immigrant communities from "unjust enforcement actions" and restricts Boston police's ability to cooperate with ICE and bans police from keeping migrants in custody for possible deportation unless there is a criminal warrant.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has pledged that state police will not assist Trump in the mass deportations operation.

A spokesperson for Healey stated that as a former prosecutor and attorney general, the governor believes violent criminals should be deported, refuting the claim that Massachusetts is a "sanctuary state."

Boston officials have remained mostly quiet on the string of sex crimes committed against city residents. Neither Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, nor the Boston City Council responded to Planet Chronicle Digital's request for comment.

November

In November, six illegal migrants were arrested by Boston ICE officials for committing sex crimes against children.

On Dec. 5, ICE announced an arrest of a 46-year-old Honduran national, Salvador Castro Garcia, who is accused of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14.

In 2001, Garcia was deported but later re-entered the country at an unknown location and time. On Nov. 21, ICE took Garcia into custody after he was released on bail by the Brockton District Court.

On Nov. 20, Boston ICE ERO officials arrested Felix Meletz Guarcas, a 45-year-old Guatemalan national, for multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor, in addition to Garcia.

ICE is currently holding Guarcas in custody pending a hearing before an immigration judge, despite the Rhode Island Department of Corrections' refusal to hold him in custody.

Boston ICE officials arrested Belardis Tapia Gonzalez, a Dominican national charged with second-degree child molestation-sexual assault, and Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, who was charged with rape of a child in his home country of Brazil on Nov. 18.

A 42-year-old Colombian migrant, Billy Erney Buitrago-Bustos, was arrested by ICE in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on November 15th for allegedly raping a child by force, committing statutory rape, and aggravated rape against a minor.

On November 12th, ICE apprehended Guatemalan illegal immigrant Mynor Stiven De Paz-Munoz, 21, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, after he was accused of committing rape, indecent assault, and battery against a minor.

October

Boston ICE ERO arrested three illegal migrants for child sex crimes in October.

On October 31st, Andre Tiago Lucas, a 36-year-old man from Brazil, was arrested by officials for the rape of a 13-year-old child. After being convicted, he fled his native country.

On October 29th, Boston ICE ERO arrested two more migrants: Colombian national Mateo Hincapie Cardona, 28, and 20-year-old Guatemalan national Selvin Alex Galvez-Mejia.

Cardona and Mejia are both charged with crimes involving minors. Cardona is accused of enticing a child under 16, distributing obscene matter, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude. Mejia, on the other hand, is charged with rape and indecent assault and battery against a minor.

September

In September, nine illegal migrants accused of committing sex crimes against children were arrested by Boston ICE officials.

A 38-year-old Guatemalan national, Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas, was arrested by Boston ICE ERO on Sept. 20 for forcibly raping a Massachusetts minor.

Seven illegal migrants, including Abraham Malpica, Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia, Enrique Alberto Ortiz-Brito, Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, Jefferson Jerome, and Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, were arrested by Boston ICE officials for sex crimes within a single week.

A 28-year-old man from Guatemala was arrested in Massachusetts for raping a resident.

August

In August, six individuals were arrested by Boston ICE for committing sex crimes against children. These individuals, who were all illegal migrants, included Akim Marc Desire, 18, Haiti, Warley Neto, 24, Brazil, Elmer Perez, 49, Guatemala, Cory Bernard Alvarez, 26, Haiti, Marc Kervens Beauvais, 34, Haiti, and Jackson Bento-Pinheiro, 35, Brazil.