A convicted sex offender from Kenya that a federal judge blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from deporting 10 years ago – and who then went on to work as a Minnesota Department of Education director – has been arrested again by ICE.
Now, ICE is once more at the mercy of an immigration judge in its effort to deport the convicted sex offender out of the anti-ICE “sanctuary” state and send him back to his home country.
“ICE arrests convicted sex offender Wilson Tindi in Minnesota. Tindi, a Kenyan national, landed multiple taxpayer-funded positions in Minnesota state agencies, including the Minnesota Department of Education,” RapidResponse47 reported on social media Monday.
Tindi’s arrest was witnessed by Alpha News Investigative Reporter Liz Collin, who was on a ride along with St. Paul ICE Field Director Sam Olson.
In a report published on Sunday, Collin details Tindi’s sexual assault conviction, protection by a federal judge and subsequent hiring by the state:
“Tindi, a Kenyan national, was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in the Twin Cities after breaking into her home. Tindi pled guilty to the crime 10 years ago. A judge ordered his removal from the United States. But a federal judge ultimately ruled that Tindi’s removal was not warranted. After spending 18 months in ICE custody, Tindi was released and then landed taxpayer-funded positions at two separate Minnesota state agencies.”
In June, Alpha News exposed Tindi’s employment by the Minnesota Department of Education, as part of an investigative report that “sparked a firestorm online about the state’s hiring practices,” Collin notes in her article.
While some Minnesota counties have partnered with ICE, the statewide policy is to obstruct federal immigration law enforcement by refusing to turn over illegal aliens who are arrested by police.
In February, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison decreed that “Minnesota law prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from holding someone based on an immigration detainer if the person would otherwise be released from custody.
As a result, police in the state do not turn illegal aliens in custody over to federal immigration authorities, even if they are presented with an official detainer request.
Thus, immigration officers are forced to try to track down and apprehend the illegal aliens after they’ve been unleashed back onto the streets.
