Biden-appointed judge orders release of immigrant with international arrest warrant
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A suspected illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic with a deportation order and an Interpol Red Notice related to a murder in his home country has been released by a judge appointed by former President Joe Biden, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Gomez was ordered released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Tuesday by US District Judge Melissa DuBose in Rhode Island.
DuBose ordered that Gomez be released from ICE custody due to “continued unlawful detention,” while ICE argued that he was held on an international arrest warrant for murder.
The judge found that ICE was detaining Gomez under a legal warrant designed for immigrants apprehended at the border, which DuBose ruled did not apply to him since he was arrested by local police inside the US.
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Bryan Rafael Gomez has been ordered released from ICE custody. (Getty Images: DHS)
ICE cannot re-arrest him because of DuBose’s warrant, DHS said.
Gomez was arrested on April 4 for assault and battery in Worcester, Massachusetts. The inmate was later honored, and ICE Boston arrested him after he was released on $500 bail, according to DHS.
He was being held in Rhode Island, where he was issued a deportation order on Tuesday by an immigration judge.
A judge ordered that Bryan Rafael Gomez be released from ICE custody due to his “continued unlawful detention.” (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Bryan Rafael Gomez is an illegal criminal from the Dominican Republic and has an international warrant to kill,” DHS Acting Secretary for Public Affairs Lauren Bis said in a statement. “An activist judge appointed by Joe Biden freed this wanted killer from America’s communities.”
“This is another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate to the American people to remove illegal immigrants from our communities,” he continued. “Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS will continue to fight for the removal of criminals from our neighborhood who have no right to be in our country.”
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DHS said Bryan Rafael Gomez entered the US illegally in 2022, when he was apprehended and released by the Border Patrol. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Gomez entered the US illegally in 2022, when he was apprehended and released by the Border Patrol near Lukeville, Arizona, according to DHS.
On January 24, 2023, the Coordination of the Courts of Instruction of the National District of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, issued an arrest warrant for Bryan Rafael Gomez for murder. ICE has separately described Gomez as the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.
