SAN DIEGO — The daddy of a Marine who was arrested by immigration authorities when visiting his pregnant daughter at Camp Pendleton has a prison report that features prices of home violence and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, the Division of Homeland Safety stated Thursday.
Esteban Rios was deported to Mexico in 1999, faraway from the USA once more in 2005 and ordered deported by an immigration decide in 2020 after coming into the nation illegally a 3rd time, the division stated.
The assertion was the primary detailed account that Homeland Safety supplied because the Marine, Steve Rios, stated final week that his father was detained after visiting the Southern California army base, launched with ankle displays and detained once more when reporting days later to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace, as ordered.
Homeland Safety initially didn’t present particulars when requested a number of instances by The Related Press on Tuesday for data on any prison report Esteban Rios had, saying solely that “prison unlawful aliens usually are not welcome within the U.S.” The division stated it had no different data to launch.
On Thursday — at some point after AP printed a narrative on Esteban Rios, and two days after it sought particulars from the division — DHS launched the detailed account of his prison report. The division additionally accused the AP of getting “intentionally obscured the info,” regardless of the company having not supplied AP with the data it accused the information group of obscuring.
Steve Rios of Oceanside, California, advised San Diego station KNSD that his dad and mom impressed him to enlist within the Marines. He stated they got here to the U.S. from Mexico greater than 30 years in the past and have washed vehicles and cleaned homes for his complete life.
“It was simply making them proud, proper? I’ve seen all of the struggles they’ve gone by means of,” Steve Rios advised the station. “The least I may do, proper, and serve this nation and attempt to, , put a while in.”
Steve Rios stated he and his dad and mom had been choosing up his youthful sister and her husband, who can also be a Marine, at Pendleton on Sept. 28, as they’ve achieved that each weekend for the previous few months whereas she is anticipating her first little one. After stopping on the gate, ICE officers arrived to detain each dad and mom, later releasing them with ankle displays. He stated his father was deported Oct. 10.
The Rios household advised the station the dad and mom had no prison report, had pending inexperienced card purposes sponsored by Steve and authorization to work.
In response to inquiries from AP, Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Safety spokeswoman, issued an announcement Tuesday that learn, “Below President (Donald) Trump and Secretary (Kristi) Noem, in case you break the regulation — together with home violence and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon — you’ll face the implications. Felony unlawful aliens usually are not welcome within the U.S.”
The assertion didn’t say something about Esteban Rios, together with whether or not he was arrested or charged with any crime or if he had any immigration historical past.
When AP adopted as much as ask if Esteban Rios and his spouse had prison histories, Luis Alani, a communications strategist at ICE, wrote, “By statute, ICE has no data on these aliens. To make clear, there isn’t any data we will launch.”
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