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Former Leader of LPC Deported for Human Rights Violations

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The former leader of the Liberian Peace Council (LPC) who committed human rights
abuses during the Liberian civil war in the 1990s was deported to his native country Friday, March 30, capping an effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to investigate the case and win the former warlord’s removal from the United States.

George Saigbe Boley, 62, formerly of Hilton, N.Y., arrived in Monrovia,  Liberia, at
approximately 7:30 p.m. GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT). Boley, the leader of the LPC during the Liberian civil war, was found by an immigration judge Feb. 6, 2012 to be removable from the United States. This was the first removal order obtained by ICE under the authorities of the Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008, which added the recruitment and use of child soldiers as a ground of inadmissibility to and deportability from the United States. The immigration judge with the Executive Office for Immigration Review – a component of the U.S. Department of Justice – also found Boley inadmissible based upon the
government’s charge of commission of extrajudicial killings in Liberia in the 1990s and that Boley had abandoned his lawful permanent resident status.

“George Boley’s removal is a major step in addressing the serious human rights abuses
Mr. Boley perpetrated in Liberia in the 1990s,” said ICE Director John Morton. “The United States has always welcomed refugees and those fleeing oppression, but we will not be a safe haven for human rights violators and war criminals. George Boley’s removal is the first ever U.S. deportation based on the use of child soldiers in war, and represents the
culmination of extensive efforts by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers and ICE attorneys to vindicate the rights of those who suffered at Mr. Boley’s hands during the Liberian Civil War.”

Various organizations have reported that the LPC engaged in serious human rights abuses
against the civilian population. The 1995, the U.S. Department of State report on Human Rights Practices in Liberia documented credible reports that Boley authorized the extrajudicial executions of seven of his soldiers in 1995. According to witnesses who testified before Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), in 1994 the LPC burned dozens of captives and village inhabitants accused of witchcraft activities in a Liberian village. Other TRC witnesses also testified that in 1995, the LPC massacred 27
inhabitants in an attack on a village – ordering them to lie down before they slit their throats with cutlasses and raping the women before they killed them.

The investigation and deportation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Buffalo. ICE’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) Office of Chief Counsel Buffalo handled the administrative
removal proceedings leading to the immigration judge’s decision. These offices were supported by ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), OPLA’s Human Rights Law Section and HSI Paris.

The HRVWCC investigates human rights violators, including those who have participated in war crimes and acts of genocide, torture, extrajudicial killings, and the recruitment and use of child soldiers, who try to evade justice by seeking shelter in the United States. These individuals may assume fraudulent identities to enter the country, seeking to blend into
communities inside the United   States. Members of the public who have information  about foreign nationals suspected of engaging in human rights abuses or war crimes are urged to call the ICE tip line at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or to complete the agency’s online tip form. To learn more about the assistance available to victims in these cases, the public should contact ICE’s confidential victim-witness toll-free number at 1-866-872-4973.
Tips may be provided anonymously.

Since fiscal year 2004, ICE has arrested more than 200 individuals for human rights-related violations under various criminal and/or immigration statutes. During that same period, ICE obtained deportation orders and physically removed more than 400 known or suspected human rights violators from the United States. Currently, HSI has more than 200 active investigations and ICE is pursuing more than 1,900 leads and removal cases involving suspected human rights violators from nearly 95 different countries.

El Salvadoran Human Rights Violator Removed by ICE

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A former El Salvadoran military officer who is alleged to have committed human rights violations by the United Nations (UN) was removed from the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.

On Friday, Mar. 23, El Salvadoran national Carlos Napoleón Medina-Garay, 61, was
removed by ICE special air charter flight to San Salvador, El Salvador.

A 1993 UN Security Council report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador accuses Medina-Garay of committing human rights violations while serving as a captain in the El Salvadoran military. According to the report, beginning March 3, 1981, Medina-Garay and the soldiers under his command were part of a campaign in northern El Junquillo canton, Morazán Department, El Salvador that executed men, women and children. The  commission found that Medina-Garay ordered the executions.

“His continued presence in the country would be an insult to those who have sought U.S. protection from human rights violators.” ERO Washington Field Office Director Enrique
M. Lucero. “ERO officers are committed to ensuring these types of cases are our top priority.”

On Jan.17, 2012, ICE issued a Notice to Appear charging Medina-Garay as inadmissible to the U.S. He was taken into custody by ERO officers and ICE Homeland Security  Investigations (HSI) special agents at his home in Woodbridge, Va., that same day.

Medina-Garay’s various applications for benefits under the Immigration and Nationalization Act were denied. His most recent application was voluntarily withdrawn and he was ordered by an immigration judge the leave the United States.

The investigation was conducted by HSI and he was removed by ERO in Washington, DC.
ICE’s Office of the Chief Counsel Arlington handled the administrative removal  proceedings leading to the immigration judge’s decision. The investigation and removal was supported by ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor Human Rights Law Section and HSI Attaché El Salvador.

ICE routinely uses special air charters to transport aliens who have final orders of removal from an immigration judge. Staffed by ERO officers, these air charters enable the agency to repatriate large groups of deportees in an efficient, expeditious and humane manner.

HRVWCC investigates human rights violators, including those who have participated in
war crimes and acts of genocide, torture, extrajudicial killings, and the recruitment and use of child soldiers, who try to evade justice by seeking shelter in the United States.
These individuals may assume fraudulent identities to enter the country, seeking to blend into communities inside the United States. Members of the public who have information about foreign nationals suspected of engaging in human rights abuses or war crimes are urged to call the ICE tip line at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or to complete the agency’s online tip form. To learn more about the assistance available to victims in these cases, the public should contact ICE’s confidential victim-witness toll-free number at 1-866-872-4973.

HSI has more than 200 active investigations and is pursuing over 1,900 leads and
removal cases involving suspects from approximately 95 different countries. These cases are predominantly focused on Central and South America, Haiti, the former Yugoslavia and Africa. They represent cases in various stages of investigation, prosecution or removal proceedings.

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