Federal authorities in Dallas have deported 25-year-old woman to
her native El Salvador, where faces charges alleging that she
participated in gang-related slayings there, federal officials said.
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement officials flew Margarita Del Carmen Orellana
Rivas to El Salvador this week. She was wanted there on suspicion of
aggravated murder charges and had warrants accusing her of solicitation
or conspiracy in other slayings, according to an ICE statement.
Agency officials described Orellana Rivas as an associate of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13.
"By
removing criminal aliens to their countries of origin, ICE also removes
the threat they pose to public safety in local U.S. Communities," said
Simona L. Flores, field office director of the ICE Enforcement and
Removal Operations in Dallas.
"At
the same time, these removals ensure that aliens who commit crimes
abroad do not use the United States as a safe haven from justice in
their home countries," Flores said.
Orellana
Rivas was detained shortly after entering Texas on Aug. 15 at Hidalgo
from Mexico, where U.S. Border Patrol agents determined she was a gang
member with an outstanding warrant.
She
helped MS-13 members with the deaths of at least three people,
including a woman who was lured with her baby to a meeting, then was
beaten and strangled to death after serving as a witness in a case
against fellow gang members, according to the ICE statement. Her baby
was not harmed, the ICE statement said.
On
Oct. 21, a federal immigration judge in Dallas ordered Rivas'
deportation, and Orellana Rivas waived her right to appeal the decision.
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