ICE Buffalo removes previously deported child sex predator to home country

BUFFALO, N.Y. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed illegally present Salvadoran national Juan Velasquez from the United States to El Salvador May 15. Velasquez has been convicted of multiple felonies in New York, including rape and sexual abuse of a minor.  

Velasquez, 45, illegally entered the United States on an unknown date and at an unknown location without being admitted or paroled by an immigration official. He was convicted of statutory rape on April 14, 2004. An immigration judge ordered the illegal alien removed from the U.S. July 20, 2004, and he was subsequently removed to El Salvador Aug. 13 that same year.

Velasquez illegally reentered the U.S at a later date. On Sept. 21, 2015, the Suffolk County Court on Long Island, New York, convicted him of two counts of first-degree sexual abuse; second-degree aggravated sexual abuse; third-degree rape; act in a manner to injure a child less than 17; and false impersonation. The court sentenced him to nine years in prison. Velasquez was further convicted for violating sex offender registry requirements and sentenced to an additional year of incarceration. He was again arrested for the crime of sex assault: carnal abuse, which resulted in a conviction on July 11, 2023.

ICE Buffalo arrested Velasquez April 18, upon his release from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s custody, and reinstated his prior order of removal. He was detained at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York, until his removal from the U.S.

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Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE.gov)