Man deported to Mexico seven times is arrested again in South Carolina, ICE says
Immigration agents arrested a man in South Carolina earlier this month for living in the United States illegally.
The Mexican national had already been deported from the U.S. – seven times between 2012 and 2013 – according to a court filing by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Immigration agents charged Claudio Miranda-Gomez with “reentry of deported alien” this week after he was arrested Dec. 5. He had previously been picked up by immigration officials in Georgia, Arizona and California, court filings show.
Many of Gomez’s earlier arrests were near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to ICE.
Each of the seven times immigration officials deported Gomez, now 43, to Mexico, he crossed back into the United States.
Immigration agents said they stopped Gomez in his car near his home in Ladson, a suburb of Charleston.
The Department of Homeland Security deported more than 230,000 people in the 2018 fiscal year, according to Syracuse University, which tracks immigration statistics.
Gomez is currently being held in the Charleston County Detention Center on an immigration hold without bond, jail records show.
This story was originally published December 17, 2019 at 2:45 PM with the headline "Man deported to Mexico seven times is arrested again in South Carolina, ICE says."
