An Ecuadorian citizen with a “history of violence towards children” was arrested in New York on Thursday, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced.
Manuel Zumba-Mejia, 46, was detained in Ossining, New York, by New York City ICE Enforcement and Deportation Operations for illegally re-entering the U.S. Deportation officials said he was arrested without incidents.
Zumba-Mejia was convicted in February 2010 of reckless assault by Westchester County Court for causing serious brain injury to his 7-week-old daughter by “shaking or hitting her head.” He was sentenced to three years in prison.
The announcement said that Zumba-Mejia initially entered the US at an unknown location on an unknown date and was not inspected or admitted by an immigration officer. ERO authorities first found him in the Westchester County Jail in February 2009 for the assault of his daughter. An immigration detainer was filed.
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Ecuadorian citizen Manuel Zumba-Mejia was arrested in New York for illegally re-entering the United States.
(US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Upon completion of his sentence in September 2011, Zumba-Mejia was returned to Ecuador. At some unknown time, he re-entered the US without inspection or admission by an immigration officer.
In April 2022, he was convicted by the Croton-on-Hudson Village Court of driving while intoxicated. He was sentenced to a conditional discharge and a $1,000 fine. His driver’s license was also revoked.
When he was arrested on January 5, the New York City ERO presented him before the federal judge for the Southern District of New York, White Plains. There he was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending trial.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer preparing for an arrest in a parking lot.
“Manual Zumba-Mejía has a history of violence towards his daughter,” ERO NYC Acting Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo said in a statement. “He has been removed from the US before and returned illegally. ERO New York City will not allow our communities to be safe havens for the world’s criminals; we will continue to work tirelessly to protect the law-abiding residents of New York. “
The agency said officers “responsibly make case-by-case enforcement decisions, informed by their experience as law enforcement professionals and in a manner that best protects against the greatest threats to homeland.”
He added that non-citizens placed in removal proceedings receive due process of law from federal immigration judges in immigration courts. The courts are administered by the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is an agency within the DOJ and is separate from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
The judges of the aforementioned courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case and then ICE officers carry out the decisions made.
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During the 2022 fiscal year, ERO said 46,396 non-citizens with criminal records were arrested, of which there were 198,498 associated charges and convictions.
Crimes were broken down as follows: 21,531 assaults, 8,164 charges related to sex and sexual assaults, 5,554 charges related to weapons, 1,114 kidnappings, and 1,501 charges related to homicides.
