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Twenty years ago, former President George W. Bush was serving his second term in office when Mario Ramiro Aragon, a Guatemalan national, was first removed from the United States.
"On or about August 10, 2006, United States Border Patrol ('USBP') encountered ARAGON, using the name Jose Juana-Zapata, in Sasabe, Arizona," said an affidavit filed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer this January in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut. "On or about August 12, 2006, USBP issued him a Notice and Order of Expedited Removal. ... On August 19, 2006, ICE executed the expedited removal and removed him from the United States to Guatemala on an ICE operated flight from Phoenix, Arizona."
ICE took his fingerprints and "advised him ... that he could not return to the United States for a period of five (5) years as a consequence of having been found inadmissible."
Aragon did not heed this advice.
Less than a year later, he was arrested in the United States again -- on a more serious charge.
"On or about May 24, 2007, Homeland Security Investigations ('HSI') in Hudson/Newburgh, New York arrested ARAGON on charges of murder for hire and illegal reentry of a removed alien," said the ICE officer's affidavit. "On or about August 1, 2008, the United States........