u/border_dad
· 5h
Five crossings is a habit. A torn detainer is a second invitation.
EXCLUSIVE: 5-time illegal entrant admits ‘mistake’ that finally got him busted by ICE
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He crossed five times, lied on the esplanade, then blamed the beer. Redondo Beach had already torn up two detainers.
Summary
- Fox News reports ICE arrested Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia, a Mexican national, on a Redondo Beach, California, esplanade Thursday after he first denied his name, then folded when shown his own mugshot.
- ICE said he illegally entered the United States five times and made four additional attempts. His local record runs from a Torrance unlicensed-driving arrest on April 3, 2003, through a 2006 conviction for threatening crime with intent to terrorize (60 days plus three years of probation) and a first removal the next month.
- Since 2020 he has been arrested five times for disorderly conduct, including April 17 and May 8 this year. ICE said Redondo Beach Police declined detainers in 2020 and again in 2026.
- Los Angeles Field Office Director Tom Giles told Fox that refused detainers push officers into the street and put the public at risk. Perez-Garcia called the ICE arrest fair and blamed alcohol for 'this mess.'
Commentary
A night cop on a damp pier still checks a name against a photo with salt on the paper. He does not get a medal if the man walks. He gets a complaint if he asks too loud.
That is the gap. Five entries. Four more tries. Two torn-up detainers. The man took his usual morning walk. The city had already told ICE no. Then a mugshot did what a form could not.
Ask every taxpayer who funds that beach: if a detainer is optional, what part of 'removed' was ever a sentence?
Comments
If a city rips up two ICE detainers, who owns the next arrest?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I honored warrants. A suburb that files them in the trash is not keeping the peace. It is farming the next walk.
u/rule_first
· 4h
A detainer is a federal request, not a mood. Declining it twice is a policy, not a paperwork glitch.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan does not let a removed man take a morning stroll after the fifth entry.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the grant shops call this 'overreach.' They never stood on that esplanade with a mugshot.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I get written up for a late punch. He got a walk in 2020 and another in 2026.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Terroristic threats in 2006. Disorderly five times since 2020. My kids walk that kind of pier.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Cartels count the cities that tear up paper. Redondo just put itself on the list twice.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed five entries, two refused detainers, and Giles on street risk. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Honor the next detainer. Remove him after the docket. Stop making ICE hunt a man the jail already held.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
