Deportation officers arrested an illegal migrant convicted of brutally murdering his pregnant wife after local authorities released him back into the community on parole.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Massachusetts apprehended Cesar Polanco, a Dominican national convicted in 2007 of beating his wife to death in front of her five-year-old son, according to the Boston Herald. Polanco’s apprehension was one among thousands of arrests the Trump administration made in its first week as it executes its “worst first” agenda to detain and deport criminal illegal migrants.
Polanco called local police in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in October 2006 to inform them that he had killed 25-year-old Judith Guevara, according to his parole documentation. The two had argued about him “going out to drink” and the disagreement eventually turned physical, leading him to murder her in front of her five-year-old son.
Guevara sustained “massive facial injuries,” with the official cause of death determined to be homicide by blunt force trauma and aspiration of blood, according to the report. Authorities further noted that she was roughly one-month pregnant at the time of the murder, and the couple shared a 16-month-old child in addition to the five-year-old whom she had from a previous relationship.
Polanco pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Despite the brutal nature of the murder, he was paroled in December after serving only 17 years of his life sentence.
It’s not immediately clear if ICE was contacted by local authorities before Polanco was released from prison. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Massachusetts is considered a sanctuary state by immigration observers for statewide policies that restrict law enforcement cooperation with ICE agents and a number of cities in the state also identify as sanctuary jurisdictions, including the capital city of Boston. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey issued an investigation into her state’s emergency shelter system after it was discovered an illegal migrant living in of the facilities had nearly a million dollars worth of drugs and an AR-15 in his possession.
ICE agents made nearly 1,000 arrests across the country Sunday, marking the highest number of single-day arrests only six days into the Trump administration. The figure also already outpaces the average daily ICE apprehension rate of the Biden administration in fiscal year 2024, which stood at roughly 310 daily arrests.
The 956 arrests that took place Sunday are in addition to the roughly 1,300 ICE arrests border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday, putting the administration’s total immigration apprehensions over the week well above 2,000.
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