ICE Arrests Alleged Human Rights Violators

In the last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested three military officers in three states who are suspected of committing crimes against humanity in their respective South American countries. In Miami ICE arrested Telmo Ricardo Hurtado-Hurtado on visa fraud charges. According to Peruvian military court documents, the ex-Peruvian Army platoon commander lead the massacre of 69 villagers during a 1985 military raid in an area known as a stronghold of the Shining Path guerilla group. In connection with the same investigation, ICE officers in Baltimore, Md., arrested Juan Manuel Rivera-Rondon, a former Peruvian Army officer, for allegedly participating in the same 1985 massacre. In Arlington, Va., ICE agents arrested Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro, a retired Army major who was Argentina’s chief interrogator during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. “ICE will not allow the United States to be a safe haven for those who have come to our country in an effort to evade prosecution and punishment for the crimes they have committed against others,” said Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE. “We will not relent in our efforts to ensure that human rights violators are brought to justice and removed from our communities.”  For the press release, Download ice  For a summary of investuigation of ICE human rights violators, Download ice2

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