An illegal immigrant woman convicted of attempting to kill her newborn baby on Long Island, New York, has been successfully deported from the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Soili Xiomara Aparicio-Santos, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, from New York in April. According to the organization, she was deported after completing only eight years of a New York jail sentence for attempted newborn murder.
Aparicio-Santos entered the nation illegally under the Obama administration in 2014. She has had a final removal order against her since 2014.
In 2018, she was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree attempted assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
DHS stated that, after being sentenced to 16 years in jail for her crime, Aparicio-Santos’ sentence was reduced to 10 years, of which she served only eight. However, DHS stated that local officials cooperated with ICE and contacted the agency prior to her release, allowing federal officers to make the arrest.
According to the Daily Voice, the 41-year-old lived in Centereach, New York, which is in Suffolk County on Long Island.
According to the outlet, in 2017, Aparicio-Santos attempted to kill her infant by smothering him with a pillow. A family member noticed her acts and contacted the police. The child apparently escaped serious injury and was placed in foster care.
After Suffolk County police arrested Aparicio-Santos for first-degree reckless endangerment in 2017, ICE issued an immigration detainer, or a request to hold her. The government subsequently issued a second detainer in 2018 while she was serving her term, according to DHS.
Lauren Bis, acting DHS assistant secretary, praised local Long Island officials for working with ICE to remove Aparicio-Santos. Bis stated in a DHS news release that law enforcement and ICE personnel worked together to remove a criminal from the country. “This monster tried to KILL her child the day he was born,” Bis added.
She condemned the Obama administration for “releasing this attempted murderer into our country.”
Bis also stated that DHS “need(s) cooperation from state and local politicians to get criminals like this out of our country,” further stating, “Together, we can make America safe again.”
Suffolk and Nassau counties in New York, both majority Republican-controlled, take a very different approach to cooperating with federal immigration enforcement than adjacent New York City.
Suffolk County is presently fighting a $112 million federal jury award after judges determined that the county violated constitutional rights by keeping offenders past their release dates only to meet ICE detainer requests.
Suffolk Attorney Thomas Dewey lambasted the decision, telling the New York Post, “The jury’s preposterous and unjust damages award cannot stand.”
According to DHS, seven of the top ten safest cities in the United States collaborate with ICE.
The agency emphasized the importance of collaborating with federal and local law enforcement to effectively arrest criminal illegal aliens nationwide. When politicians prevent local law enforcement from collaborating with DHS, officers must be more visible in order to locate and apprehend offenders who have been released from jail and returned to their communities, according to the agency.
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