Chronic border crosser arrested by ICE Boston; Brazilian linked to massacre called ‘vetting failure’

A Guatemalan national charged with kidnapping during an alleged home invasion in Brockton has once again been busted by ICE after crossing the southern border four times.

Edilio Agustin-Orellana was arrested in Providence on Jan. 27, ICE said Monday.

“Edilio Agustin-Orellana stands accused of some extremely egregious felonies and represents a significant threat to the residents of New England,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “We simply cannot tolerate such threats to our residents.”

Agustin-Orellana first crossed illegally into the U.S. in 2002 near Brownsville, Texas. He repeated that three other times, from California to Texas.

The Brockton District Court refused to honor an ICE detainer and released him from custody a year ago after he was arrested on the Brockton armed home invasion.

In a related development, the National Center for Immigration Studies is calling this month’s arrest by Boston-based immigration agents of a convicted Brazilian murderer a vetting failure.

Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 31, found in Malden, was wanted back in Brazil for his involvement in the 2015 “Slaughter of Curió” where officers murdered 11 people, mostly teenagers, and seriously wounded or tortured many others.

De Abreu reportedly never disclosed his arrest in the brutal killings when applying for a U.S. visa after the massacre in November 2015, according to the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“Again, he lied on all the government asylum application forms to conceal his arrest and charges for the Curió massacre. He applied for and obtained a state driver’s license, a Social Security card, travel documents, and employment authorization. None of the relevant authorities bothered to check with Brazil’s federal government either, including the Social Security Administration or other federal agencies,” wrote immigration expert Todd Bensman for the National Center for Immigration Studies.

This case is now part of a national database on “security vetting failures.”

Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho (Courtesy of ERO Boston)

 

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