Ecuadorian man with ‘violent criminal history’ arrested in New York after re-entering US illegally

An Ecuadorian national with a “history of child abuse” was arrested in New York on Thursday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced.

Manuel Zumba-Mejia, 46, was arrested in Ossining, NY, by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations New York City for illegal reentry into the U.S. Deportation officials said he was taken into custody without incident.

Zumba-Mejia was convicted in February 2010 of reckless assault in Westchester County District Court for causing his 7-week-old daughter’s severe brain injury by “shaking or touching her head.” He was sentenced to three years in prison.

The notice said Zumba-Mejia initially entered the US at an unknown location on an unknown date and was not inspected or admitted by an immigration official. He was first booked by ERO authorities at the Westchester County Jail in February 2009 for assaulting his daughter. An immigration detainer was lodged.

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Ecuadorian national Manuel Zumba-Mejia was arrested in New York for illegal re-entry into the United States. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

After completing his sentence in September 2011, Zumba-Mejia returned to Ecuador. At some unknown point, he re-entered the US without inspection or admission by an immigration official.

In April 2022, he was convicted in Croton-on-Hudson Village Court of driving while intoxicated. He was sentenced to a conditional discharge and fined $1,000. His driver’s license was also revoked.

When he was arrested on January 5, the New York City ERO presented him to a federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of New York, White Plains. There he was held in custody by the US Marshals Service pending trial.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer prepares to make an arrest in a parking lot.

“Manual Zumba-Mejia has a history of violence against his daughter,” ERO NYC Acting Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo said in a statement. “He has left the US before and returned illegally. The New York City ERO will not allow our communities to be safe havens for the world’s criminals; we will continue to work tirelessly to protect law abiding residents of New York.”

The agency said officers “make case-by-case enforcement decisions responsibly, informed by their experience as law enforcement professionals and in a manner that best protects against the greatest threats to the homeland.”

He added that noncitizens placed in removal proceedings receive due process from federal immigration judges in immigration courts. The courts are administered by the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is an agency within the DOJ and is separate from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

Judges in the aforementioned courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case, then ICE officers enforce the decisions made.

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During fiscal year 2022, ERO said that 46,396 non-citizens with criminal histories were arrested, of which 198,498 had related charges and convictions.

The offenses were broken down as follows: 21,531 assaults, 8,164 sex-related charges and sexual assaults, 5,554 weapons-related charges, 1,114 kidnappings and 1,501 murder-related charges.