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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested Sanjay Sivan Walsh, a 28-year-old Jamaican national convicted of sexually assaulting two children and tampering with evidence, on Dec. 17.
Walsh served a 21-month sentence in Enfield’s Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution.
Then, thanks to the TRUST Act that CT Attorney General William Tong has been boasting about in meetings all over the state, the CT Department of Corrections just released Walsh into the public, ignoring the ICE detainer.
“Mr. Walsh was convicted of committing unspeakable crimes against two children, and he was sentenced to prison for it,” said ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. “ERO Boston lodged an immigration detainer against him so our officers could safely arrest him upon his release, but the Connecticut Department of Corrections officials refused to honor the detainer. Our officers had to arrest Mr. Walsh in the community after his release from prison, even though he was convicted of terrible crimes against children and is removable from the U.S. based on his convictions.”
The State of Connecticut Superior Court convicted Walsh of two counts of second-degree sexual assault and conspiracy to tamper with evidence on June 14, 2023, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, suspending all but the year and nine months he had already served. The court also required Walsh to register as a sex offender for 10 years following his release.
Walsh remains in ERO custody pending immigration proceedings.
This is not the first time the state ignored an ICE detainer for an illegal charged with sexually assaulting a minor.
Remember when Connecticut released an illegal from Honduras who had been arrested in New Britain on September 14, 2023, and charged with first degree sexual assault of a minor under the age of 13 and illegal sexual contact with a minor?
On October 13, 2023, ERO Boston lodged a detainer against him with the Hartford Correctional Center.
Officials at the Hartford Correctional Center ignored ERO Boston’s immigration detainer and released the illegal on February 1, 2024.
Meanwhile, CT AG Tong said that the TRUST Act, which prevents state and local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE, is "not controversial."
When describing the TRUST Act, Tong explained, "Federal government does its job. You cannot commandeer state resources and local police and other law enforcement officials to do immigration work. That's your problem, not ours. It does not apply to violent offenders."
