Posted on 12/03/2018 12:22:14 PM PST by jazusamo
BOSTON – A Massachusetts teen facing charges in the killing of a 17-year-old boy had been allowed to remain in the country despite being identified by police as an active member of MS-13, recently filed federal court documents show.
Homeland Security officials told an immigration judge this summer 19-year-old Henri Salvador Gutierrez should be deported to his native El Salvador because he was a "verified and active member" of MS-13 with multiple weapons-related arrests, prosecutors said in a filing last week.
But the judge deemed the information against Gutierrez inconclusive and ordered him released on June 30, just weeks before the Somerville resident and five other alleged MS-13 members stabbed Herson Rivas to death in Lynn on July 30, according to prosecutors.
Gutierrez pleaded not guilty to the charges Friday in Boston federal court and is being held without bail pending his next court date.
The case comes amid an ongoing debate over the Boston Police's gang database.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the department last month seeking more information about the secretive database, including how many people are listed on it and their demographics.
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We all do. Nothing is going to happen to the judge. So I can imagine anything, like the judge being caught in a unicorn stampede. :-)
A Massachusetts Salvadoran teen facing charges ...
Fixed it for ya Fox News.
And maybe I was wrong, too:
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