Feds arrest illegal immigrant repeat offender they say dodged deportation for decades amid sanctuary policies

An amerciable migrant from Cuba with aggregate anterior convictions is successful national custody aft spending decades evading deportation owed to relaxed sanctuary metropolis policies, national authorities announced Tuesday. 

Eledoro Valenzuela Rodriguez was taken into custody from the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful Florida past month, according to officials.

At the time, Rodriguez was awaiting proceedings connected charges of cocaine possession with intent to sell, being a felon successful possession of a firearm and ammunition, and trespassing, officials said. 

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Eledoro Valenzuela Rodriguez, a Cuban national, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement astatine the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center successful Florida past month, officials said. (ICE)

He antecedently had a last removal bid lodged against him successful 1980, but remained successful the United States aft "lenient sentences from sanctuary states New York and Maryland allowed this serial offender to support preying connected guiltless people," ICE said successful a statement.

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Rodriguez was awaiting proceedings connected charges including cocaine possession with intent to sell, being a felon successful possession of a firearm and ammunition, and trespassing astatine the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center successful Miami, Fla. (Google Maps)

"Sanctuary policies support criminals similar Valenzuela Rodriguez and alteration them to prey connected generations of guiltless Americans," ICE Director Todd Lyons said. 

ICE did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

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Eledoro Valenzuela Rodriguez, a Cuban national, had a last removal bid successful 1980 but remained successful the U.S. aft lenient sentences successful New York and Maryland, according to ICE. (iStock)

Authorities said Rodriguez "amassed galore convictions and charges," including arrests for possession of controlled substances, marijuana possession, dealing cocaine, limb possession and firearm possession by a convicted felon. 

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Despite the litany of charges and past convictions, Rodriguez was released from jailhouse aggregate times portion surviving successful sanctuary cities, national authorities said.

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"These policies don’t marque communities safer," Lyons added. "They marque enforcement much hard and unit national officers into much unsafe — and much nationalist — situations. ICE volition proceed to enforce the law, careless of section politics." 

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It was not instantly wide if Rodriquez had retained an lawyer pursuing his arrest.