‘Committed Crimes Against Innocent People’: ICE Deports Illegal Migrant Felon For 7th Time

Deportation officers in November removed a repeat felon from the United States for the seventh time, highlighting the difficulties of preventing dangerous foreign nationals from sneaking into the country.

Julio Cesar Hernandez Funez, a 41-year-old Honduran national, was deported back to his home country on Nov. 16, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The illegal migrant, who has a lengthy rap sheet for drug trafficking and other crimes, had already been sent back to Honduras six prior times — once in 2006, 2013, 2014, twice in 2015 and again in 2016.

“Hernandez is a repeat offender who’s unlawfully entered the United States at least seven times, and he’s committed crimes against innocent people nearly every time,” ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde said in a press release. “He’s been arrested in multiple states — including in Texas in 2001 — where Border Patrol agents found him hiding in the trunk of a car at a checkpoint.”

“He unlawfully entered the United States through Canada in February of this year, and our U.S. Customs and Border Protection partners arrested him in Derby Line, Vermont,” Hyde continued. “ERO Boston removed him last week.”

Deportation of Julio Cesar Hernandez Funez. Photo courtesy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Hernandez has been convicted of five different felonies while in the U.S., according to ICE. The Honduran national’s rap sheet includes disorderly conduct in 2004, assault and battery and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2005, entry into the U.S. without inspection in 2012 and driving under the influence in 2014.

He was convicted of illicit drug trafficking in 2022 by the Honduran government and sentenced to four-and-half years in prison, but he fled the country and attempted to enter the U.S. again through the U.S.-Canada border in Vermont, ICE confirmed.