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(NewsNation) — Department of Homeland Security officials judge determination are much than 600,000 migrants with transgression convictions and charges surviving successful the United States portion remaining connected the database of those Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are searching for.
As ICE continues to question to apprehension and detain these immigrants who entered the state illegally, a astir 20-year U.S. Border Patrol cause is making it his ngo to find them connected his own.
Shane Fernandez works on the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful El Centro, California, which is located conscionable westbound of the Arizona authorities enactment and 113 miles eastbound of San Diego. Fernandez wants to bash much than apprehend those who are attempting to transverse into the United States illegally.
He wants to way down those who person entered the state illegally implicit the past 4 years and who person managed to stay retired of national custody.
A Border Patrol cause with a hashtag
Over the past 3 1/2 years, Fernandez has either captured oregon been liable for the seizure of 91 people. Each of his captures is displayed connected a poster committee with photos of those who person landed successful national custody acknowledgment to Fernandez’s efforts. His enactment has garnered its ain hashtag, "#Shane'd."
For Fernandez, the hashtag is simply a unsocial honor, but it represents truthful overmuch more.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Shane Fernandez is liable for the seizure and apprehension of 91 migrants with transgression backgrounds. (Photo by Ali Bradley/NewsNation)“Shane'd means that we did our job, we recovered them, we did our investigation, we worked successful collaboration with different instrumentality enforcement agencies, and we each worked together,” Fernandez told NewsNation. “That’s truly important to retrieve — we each worked unneurotic to execute a large thing, which is to get this apprehension and get this transgression disconnected the street.”
Not everyone that Fernandez seeks to seizure has nonstop ties to the El Centro Sector. However, helium sees his jurisdiction arsenic the microcosm of what is happening with ICE’s efforts to instrumentality migrant criminals into national custody crossed the United States.
Everyone helium seeks to seizure is successful the United States illegally and was either released by migration officials oregon a justice and remains present contempt giving erstwhile orders to leave. Others are “gotaways,” the migrants who entered betwixt ports of introduction and person managed to elude national migration agents.
“I don’t spot this arsenic … I should enactment successful my lane,” helium said. “I spot this much arsenic a nationalist information threat, and I instrumentality it precise seriously.”
Shane Fernandez connected a idiosyncratic ngo
Fernandez’s enactment has caught the attraction of his bosses.
Gregory Bovino, the El Centro Sector chief, told NewsNation that not lone is Fernandez doing his occupation for the Border Patrol but for the assemblage the assemblage serves. Bovino said that Fernandez's enactment exemplifies the efforts agents crossed the Border Patrol are making to bring transgression migrants to justice. But the mode Fernandez does his occupation stands out, Bovino said, due to the fact that of the work helium is providing to support residents.
“It resonates with the nationalist due to the fact that this is happening wherever they live,” Bovino said. “This happens wherever you live. So, they recognize that and that these folks are really preying connected the communities oregon person the imaginable to prey connected those communities.”
Fernandez’s archetypal people was a migrant who was convicted of sidesplitting 2 people, had escaped from jailhouse and besides had pack ties. That idiosyncratic was captured, but a justice said that helium could not beryllium removed to his location state of Brazil due to the fact that of the threats helium faced there.
So helium was released backmost into the United States. Now, Fernandez is connected a ngo to find that transgression migrant again, on with others who airs threats to Americans.
For Fernandez, the occupation is much than a job; it has go idiosyncratic for a begetter who is seeking to support his children. So erstwhile different transgression is taken disconnected the streets and added to the #Shaned list, Fernandez has trouble putting his feelings into words.
“It feels fantastic … due to the fact that a batch of yourself goes into these investigations and you get vested connected a idiosyncratic level,” helium said. “When you spot each the hard enactment — sometimes, it takes three, four, 5 months — and you spot each that wage disconnected successful the end, and you spot each of the enactment was worthwhile, and you spot that taxable successful (handcuffs) and arrested and yet paying the consequences for his actions, it’s an indescribable feeling.”
