SAN DIEGO \u2014 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrests of four undocumented immigrants in San Diego, all of whom have previous convictions for sex crimes against children.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive sit-down interview with ABC 10News, Patrick Divver, Field Office Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Diego, called the arrests a top priority.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are targeting the worst of the worst, and I can’t think of anything worse than someone who violates a child,\u201d Divver said.<\/p>\n
Officials say the crimes tied to these individuals span across the country, with at least one case happening locally in San Diego.<\/p>\n
Among those arrested was Eduardo Negrete, taken into custody in an Encanto neighborhood, just blocks away from Encanto Elementary School. According to Megan\u2019s Law records, Negrete was convicted in 2013 for lewd acts with a child under 14. ABC 10News also found court documents confirming a man with the same name was convicted in San Diego that year.<\/p>\n
Divver explained that state laws, such as SB 54, which limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, previously prevented ICE from identifying Negrete\u2019s immigration status.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, due to SB 54, we weren\u2019t able to ever interview this individual,\u201d Divver said. \u201cBecause we had no footprint, we couldn\u2019t interview him, which means we could never determine whether he was in the country illegally or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Divver, who spoke on camera with ABC 10News for the first time since taking his position, said public safety and officer safety are his highest priorities during these types of enforcement actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to make sure my officers are safe. They\u2019re able to secure the scene, make the arrests safely and effectively \u2014 and come home safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moving forward, ICE says those arrested will remain in their custody until travel forms are completed for their removal. <\/p>\n
\u201cNot only are we able to remove a criminal from the community, we\u2019re able to remove that criminal from the United States altogether,\u201d Divver said. \u201cSo they\u2019re not able to remain in the community to reoffend or revictimize any of their victims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrests of four undocumented immigrants in San Diego,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,43036,102060,5410,6501,20523,50,135567,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-257865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-child-sex-crimes","12":"tag-convicted","13":"tag-ice","14":"tag-immigrants","15":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-patrick-divver","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115274451720477424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}