The US Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), announced that he had arrested a Maine policeman on July 25, from Jamaica. He would have finally agreed to leave the country voluntarily, said the agency.
Jon Luke Evans was a reservist police officer from the Old Orchard Beach police department. According to Associated Press, a representative of the Ice joined by phone said that a judge had authorized the voluntary departure of Jon Luke Evans and that he could leave the country now. In the context of this “self-productation”, Evans will have to use its own means to leave the United States in a predetermined period. He thus avoids expulsion, which could in theory, allow him to make a new request for regularization.
To obtain the voluntary departure, the former police officer had to recognize his status as an illegal resident, to assert to give up any request for a stay in the country and above all prove that he had the intention and the financial means to leave the USA.
As the American press reports, the police officer would have entered legally on September 24, 2023 via a flight towards Miami with a week -long visa, which he would have exceeded by never returning.
The rose pot was discovered when he had tried to buy a firearm -that he would have declared necessary for his work -something that his visa (expired) did not allow.
An error in the control chain
This announcement caused a scandal: as the Daily Mail quotes, the assistant internal security secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, accused the police service of having “recklessly giving up” on the E-Verific program, which nevertheless makes it possible to verify the status of immigrant as well as the eligibility for employment and that he should have more checked the history of Evans. On May 12, he had clearly identified man as an “(foreign) alien authorized to work”.
Accused of negligence in his recruitment, the Old Orchard Beach police department said that during the checks to hire the future police officer, all the services indicated that he was authorized to work in the United States for almost five years. The police chef Élise Chard said in a statement that “any innuendo according to which the city and the department have failed in their duty to verify the eligibility of Mr. Evans to work is false and seems to be an attempt to reject responsibility on a local service responsible for the application of the law which has done its job properly. »»
While the institutions are rejected the responsibility of the recruitment of Jon Luke Evans, the person concerned is still detained at the Wyatt detention center, in Central Falls, in the Rhode Island, pending his departure.
