Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently reported the arrest of a 24-year-old illegal immigrant in Massachusetts who had been unlawfully present in the U.S. for nearly two years.

Julio Esteban Batista-Castillo faces charges of kidnapping, malicious destruction of property, breaking and entering, home invasion, and multiple counts of assault and battery. He was apprehended by ICE agents in Boston on November 18, reports Fox.

An ICE press release stated that Batista-Castillo entered the U.S. illegally in January 2023. Despite being arraigned by the Roxbury District Court, he was released, which ICE officials criticized for endangering public safety.

Some things just don’t make sense.

Let in under during the Biden administration and under the nose of border czar Kamala Harris, illegal alien Julio Esteban Batista-Castillo was released after getting arrested on charges such as kidnapping and home invasion.

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“Batista has been accused of very serious crimes, including assault and battery involving strangulation and a firearm,” said Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston Acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde. “This is not someone you want to release into the community.”

Hyde expressed frustration over the Roxbury District Court’s decision not to honor an immigration detainer.

“ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer against him with the Roxbury District Court — a simple request for law enforcement officers to hold him in custody for a short time so our officers could arrest him in a safe, controlled setting,” Hyde stated. “Unfortunately, the detainer was not honored, putting everyone in the community and our officers at risk.”

Pattern of Arrests in Massachusetts

Batista-Castillo is one of several violent illegal immigrants apprehended by ICE Boston this year.

On the same day as Batista-Castillo’s arrest, ICE agents detained Belardis Tapia Gonzalez, an MS-13 gang member accused of second-degree child molestation, in Lynn, Massachusetts.

In October, another individual, Mateo Hincapie Cardona, was arrested in Boston on charges of enticing a child under 16, distributing obscene material, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.