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Migrant crime crisis infiltrates ritzy playgrounds of rich and famous

September 24, 2024 | | Print Article

Virtue signaling left children at risk in the Northeast’s ritzy coastal getaway towns as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a series of arrests of alleged sex offenders.

In 2022, the denizens of Martha’s Vineyard gladly enjoyed a photo-op with illegal aliens that had been dropped off at their doorsteps, courtesy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), before seeing them booted from the island within a day’s time.

More than two years later, the wakeup call appeared to have been insufficient to identify the inherent problems of sanctuary policies as a slew of foreign nationals were busted by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, including some who’d been released back into the community despite detainers filed by the federal agency.

“Warley Neto allegedly repeatedly assaulted a Massachusetts child and represents a significant threat to the safety of our neighborhoods,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons in a statement regarding the Aug. 23 arrest of the 24-year-old Brazilian national taken into custody on Martha’s Vineyard.

“We are grateful for the cooperation of the Dukes County Sheriff’s Office for prioritizing public safety and allowing Neto’s safe transfer of custody to ERO. Too often local jurisdictions refuse to honor immigration detainers and release dangerous offenders back into the community to re-offend,” added Lyons. “ERO Boston will continue to apprehend and remove the most egregious noncitizen offenders from New England.”

It had taken three detainer requests for Neto to be turned over to ICE during which time a prison sentence led to an early release and the opportunity to allegedly commit crimes against a child.

On Sept. 10, 28-year-old Salvadoran national Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo was arrested in Nantucket for numerous sex crimes against a child prompting the director to state, “Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo stands accused of some detestable and disturbing crimes against a Nantucket child. He represents a significant danger to the children of our Massachusetts communities.”

Nantucket District Court had released Aldana on bail on July 29 after he’d been arraigned for one count of “rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.”

The following day, ERO Boston arrested Brazilian national Gean Do Amaral Belafronte who had “unlawfully reentered the United States on an unknown date (in 2021), at an unknown location, without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.”

He was arrested by Nantucket Police on June 9, 2021, on charges of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years or older, failed to appear for his arraignment, and was later released on bail after being arrested on a default warrant.

“I think many people are concerned about the violent illegal population…The biggest thing is obviously not knowing anybody’s history if they’re here illegally. The legal immigrants will even discuss that,” Nantucket GOP chair Toby Brown told Fox News Digital.

“It’s such a small island that I find that things have gotten a little worse here on Nantucket,” he went on. “I think the ultrawealthy summer people probably don’t see the same thing as somebody who’s living here locally.”

“Once again, they’re in big estates. And unfortunately, on Nantucket, the mainstream press, for the most part, would like people to think this place is still kind of just like Disneyland and we have zero issues on the island,” added Brown.

Those issues included the arrest of 49-year-old Salvadoran national Elmer Sola, facing 11 charges of sex crimes against a child that included three counts of aggravated rape and eight counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14.

The Center for Immigration Studies estimated in a June report that Massachusetts had added 50,000 more “illegal and inadmissible” aliens to the state since 2021, bringing the total to around 355,000. Of those, 8,500 were said to be unaccompanied minors.

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