12/02/2019
ICE removes former civil patrol leader accused of human rights abuses in Guatemala
BOSTON, Mass. — Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed Juan Alecio Samayoa Cabrera, 69, a Guatemalan citizen wanted in Guatemala in connection with abuses committed against indigenous Mayans in the early 1980s, Nov. 27, 2019.
Samayoa Cabrera, a former civil patrol leader, has been charged in Guatemala for his alleged role in more than 150 human rights abuses, including torture, rape and extrajudicial killing, in El Quichè.
On March 29, 2018, an immigration judge ordered Samayoa removed from the United States. His appeal was dismissed by the Board of Immigration Appeals Sept. 10, 2018. On Oct. 1, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied in part, and dismissed in part, his petition for review. This case was litigated by ICE’s Boston Office of the Chief Counsel with the support of the ICE Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Providence, Boston, and Guatemala City.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-former-civil-patrol-leader-accused-human-rights-abuses-guatemala
