ICE Boston arrests Haitian Illegal alien facing child porn, assault, extortion charges

An illegal immigrant from Haiti facing sex crimes involving children and who entered the country under the Biden administration’s border policies has been apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from the agency’s Boston field office in Fall River.

This latest arrest announced by ICE Boston comes as Gov. Maura Healey is expected this week to sign the Protect Act (H. 5620) into law, which would limit ICE capabilities and operations in Massachusetts.

ICE Boston tells the Herald that Pierre Andy Jean-Louis, 20, was arrested by Fall River Police on June 22 on criminal charges that include possession of child pornography, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, and extortion by threat of injury. He was released by local authorities until ICE officers apprehended him during a traffic stop in the city on July 18.

“There is no person more disturbing than one who stands accused of preying upon the most innocent members of our communities,” said Acting Director of the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston Field Office David Wesling. “ICE Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by working tenaciously to remove alleged child sex predators from our New England neighborhoods.”

ICE says Jean-Louis entered U.S. under Biden administration’s open border policies in Nogales, AZ on September 24, 2024. He was apprehended, but later released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on a two-year parole.

ICE officers arrested Jean-Louis and served him with a notice to appear before a Justice Department immigration judge. The agency says he will receive full due process under federal immigration laws.

The arrest of Jean-Louis comes amid several arrests of other criminal illegal immigrants facing or convicted of violent charges and the fatal crash allegedly caused by Haitian illegal alien commercial truck driver Michael Bon, which resulted in the death of a Pennsylvania state trooper last month.

It also comes as the governor is expected to sign the Protect Act this week after the House passed the legislation last week, following the Senate’s passage of the bill in May.

The bill, if signed by Healey, will prohibit civil immigration arrests without a judicial warrant at schools, courthouses, childcare centers and medical facilities, among other state owned property.

In the workplace, the law will require all Massachusetts employers to notify any illegal immigrant employees ahead of a pending I-9 inspection by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

It will also ban all Massachusetts law enforcement from entering into any new deputization agreements with federal immigration authorities, the most notable of which are 287(g) agreements, “except in narrow, criminal-law-focused arrangements that meet additional safeguards.”

“This is an important piece of legislation. We have got to protect our communities from ICE. ICE has been terrorizing communities across Massachusetts and across this country, taking working moms and dads away from their kids and away from our communities. It’s had an impact on not only these families, which is devastating, to lose these breadwinners, but it’s also had an impact on our economy,” Healey said when asked by reporters about the legislation while making a campaign stop at a cultural festival in New Bedford on Saturday.

“I mean, what sense does it make to take away hard-working, taxpaying people who are providing an important role in our economy? I’ve spoken out loud against ICE. They are a rogue agency, they’re not playing by any rules and people are getting killed across this country as a result and in Massachusetts I’m proud that we’re taking a stand against ICE to protect our communities and to protect public safety,” she said.

Healey has significantly increased legislative action and rhetoric against ICE ever since launching her re-election campaign in January, even launching an online ICE Misconduct Portal with Attorney General Andrea Campbell in March to allow residents to report “potentially unlawful” activity by ICE in Massachusetts. Both Healey and Campbell have expressed their willingness to use the information collected by the portal to prosecute federal  officers.

Healey maintains that Massachusetts is not a “sanctuary state.”