{"id":76869,"date":"2025-12-21T02:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76869\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:41:04","slug":"ice-detainer-issued-for-illegal-immigrant-charged-with-homicide-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76869\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE detainer issued for illegal immigrant charged with homicide in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday that federal agents issued an arrest detainer for a criminal illegal immigrant<\/a> charged with homicide and robbery after allegedly strangling a New York taxi driver to death earlier this month.<\/p>\n

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged the detainer for Santos Paulino Vasquez-Ramirez, an illegal migrant from Guatemala accused of brutally murdering a cab operator during a fare dispute Dec. 1 in Brewster, New York.<\/p>\n

The body of the victim, Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez, was found floating in a local reservoir Dec. 7, according to DHS.<\/p>\n

“Santos Vasquez Ramirez should\u2019ve never been in our country in the first place and provided the opportunity to gruesomely take the life of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n

DHS LAUNCHES ‘WORST OF THE WORST’ WEBPAGE TARGETING ALLEGED CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NATIONWIDE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Santos Paulino Vasquez-Ramirez was arrested and charged with murder and robbery Dec. 12. (Putnam County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n

Vasquez-Ramirez illegally entered the country in 2013, DHS said, and was later released into the country under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

An immigration judge issued him a final order of removal<\/a> in early 2016.<\/p>\n

“Open border policies have deadly consequences,” McLaughlin said, adding that Santos Vasquez Ramirez will be transferred to federal custody. “ICE lodged an arrest detainer<\/a> with local authorities to ensure this criminal illegal alien is never allowed back into American neighborhoods.”<\/p>\n

DHS RIPS DEM-RUN COUNTY AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, ALLEGED MURDERER RELEASED: ‘BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS’<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Aurelio <\/p>\n

Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez, 66, of Danbury, Conn., was found dead in the Croton Falls Reservoir Dec. 7. (Department of Homeland Security)<\/p>\n

McLaughlin added that, under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown<\/a>, “ICE is targeting the worst of the worst.”<\/p>\n

In a year-end report released Friday, the DHS said more than 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the U.S. since President Donald Trump<\/a> returned to office this year, leading to the “most secure border in American history.”<\/p>\n

\"ICE <\/p>\n

ICE lodged an arrest detainer for Santos Paulino Vasquez-Ramirez, an illegal migrant from Guatemala accused of killing a taxi driver during a fare dispute Dec. 1 in Brewster, N.Y. (Christopher Dilts\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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An estimated 1.9 million migrants have been self-deported, and more than 622,000 have been forced out since Trump took office Jan. 20, according to DHS.<\/p>\n

DHS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday that federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9490,3410,2301,9,11,10,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-76869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-homeland-security","10":"tag-illegal-immigrants","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}