ICE targets brothers First they arrested Yovanny Ontiveros inside a Sacramento courtroom. Then immigration agents took his brother. by Raheem F. hosseini
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his ex-wife. According to Ontiveros’ Four months after their controversial sister, the ex followed him home and arrest of an undocumented immigrant reported his address to ICE. Booking inside a Sacramento County courtrecords and satellite imagery show house, unrepentant federal immigration Ontiveros living at a one-story clapauthorities took the older brother, too. board home buffeted by pine groves in On December 14, U.S. Immigration Meadowview. and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, “Apparently she still carried a torch arrested Jorge Ontiveros, 41, of for him,” Pacheco said. Sacramento for being in the country Like his younger brother, Ontiveros illegally. The ICE agents were working was booked into jail under the last out of the same Capitol Mall field name “Ontiveros-Cebreros” for being office that came under statewide in the country illegally following a scrutiny over the summer, when previous deportation. He has been in Ontiveros’ younger brother Yovanny custody on a no-bail federal hold ever was apprehended inside Sacramento since. Superior Court. While Ontiveros’ criminal record California Chief Justice Tani G. isn’t spotless, he already Cantil-Sakauye, who recently paid his debt to society. told CALmatters that she Aside According to online left the Republican court records, Party over its from Yovanny, Ontiveros pleaded direction, last year Jorge Ontiveros is the no contest in condemned the only other person local July 2007 to one practice of ICE felony count agents entering ICE agents have booked of possession courthouses as into Sacramento jail for of a controlled “stalking.” deportation in at least six substance for Yovanny’s sale and received attorney Charles months, an SN&R review a four-year prison Anthony Pacheco of booking logs sentence. A felony said in a previfound. count of transporting ous interview that a controlled substance two plainclothes ICE was dismissed. Ontiveros has agents “dressed like bums” no other charges or convictions in approached the bar following his Sacramento County, and he wasn’t on client’s August 22 arraignment and parole or probation when ICE arrested announced they had a warrant to arrest him. him for illegally reentering the United According to the Transactional States. Pacheco said the younger Records Access Clearinghouse at Ontiveros is no longer in ICE custody Syracuse University, 58 percent of the and the criminal charge he was facing 44,435 individuals in ICE custody as of was dismissed in November, online June 30, 2018, had no criminal record. court records show. TRAC also found that an even larger Aside from Yovanny, Jorge proportion—four out of five—either Ontiveros is the only other person had no record, or had only commitlocal ICE agents have booked into ted a minor offense such as a traffic Sacramento jail for deportation in at violation. least six months, an SN&R review of Pacheco said he didn’t know if booking logs found. his client’s brother had retained legal Pacheco said Ontiveros was counsel. Ω Christmas shopping when he ran into
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