🧵While ICE is nabbing innocent 4-year-olds, DHS allowed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in US history to self-deport to South America in December.
Prosecutors were planning to try the case and send him to prison, but DHS gave him a free flight out instead.
the-independent.com
Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist avoids trial – because ICE deported him
An attorney representing some of the jewelry companies impacted in the heist said Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores’s deportation ‘exposes a gap in the system that deserves transparency’