The husband of the Member of the Coachella member was arrested and illegally admitted due to criminal records

The husband of the city council of Coachella, Yadira Perez, who was accused of repeatedly entering the United States and committed several crimes here, was arrested by immigration agents on a Walmart parking lot when the authorities described as “targeted enforcement measures”.

After the arrest, Perez resigned from her role as representative of the Sheriff department of Riverside County.

Perez, who was elected to her first term in the Council last year, confirmed Kesq that she experienced and recorded her husband's arrest. After Perez initially approved an interview with the desert sun, he did not answer the following calls.

The US immigration and customs authority confirmed that the husband of Perez, Isidro Jimenez, was arrested in Coachella on Monday, and said in a press release that it was supported by FBI agents. The agency described Jimenez, 51, as a Mexican man with criminal convictions, who penetrated illegally after his deportation in 1995.

For the first time, Jimenez came to the United States “without being accepted by an immigration officer,” said ICE in his press release. Later he was sentenced to sale in August 1994 in front of Riverside County's Supreme Court for the possession of methamphetamine. Next year, in March 1995, an immigration judge Jimenez ordered to be removed from the country after he was arrested by the US immigration and naturalization service.

Jimenez later entered the United States illegally and spent time again in the prison for criminal activities, said ICE. He was convicted of Riverside County before the Supreme Court because he had added a spouse in assault in June 1998. In 1996 and 2007 he was also convicted of Dui's order and an attack with a fatal weapon in 2023.

Arrest part of a broader initiative

Jimenez 'arrest was part of a wider ICE initiative to examine closed cases in a database with undocumented immigrants that were deported. The complaint states that the project began in September 2021.

“(The National National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center) carried out a record test and found that (Jimenez) had several arrests and convictions after its last distance from the United States,” the complaint said. “NACTC has forwarded the information to the ice field office in San Bernardino, California.”

At the beginning of February, a deportation officer Jimenez checked the agency's database and found his arrest papers for the attack with a fatal weapon. The office also found that since his deportation, Jimenez had not applied for permission to reorganize the United States, or received the attorney of General of the Homeland Protection Authority from the Attorney General.

The complaint showed a probable reason that Jimenez had violated the US law about people in the country who were illegally found after deportation.

The records of the prison show that Jimenez was arrested on Monday at 1 p.m. and was held in the Central Detention Center of the Sheriff department in San Bernardino. Jimenez was released by a judge on Tuesday, although, according to court records, the public prosecutor's office urged to examine this decision again. The next steps in this case were not immediately clear from the deadline.

Perez resigns from the role of the sheriff department

According to Lt. Deirdre Vickers, spokesman for the department, resigned from Perez, 44, also from her deputy role in the department of the sheriff of the Riverside County.

“We are currently investigating the schedule and the facts about this incident,” Vickers told The Desert Sun. on Thursday “After the examination of the investigation, our employee (Perez) resigned.”

Perez also did not take part that the Coachella city council did not take part on Wednesday, although Risseth Lora, the city's public information officer, said Perez 'status in the Council was unchanged from Thursday.

“The city of Coachella has received no updates about the situation with the husband of the council member Yadira Perez or the enforcement activities by federal law representatives in our city,” Lora told The Desert Sun. “Your current status as a member of our city council remains active.”

Coachella as well as Cathedral City and Palm Springs identify as a refuge that limits their cooperation with the enforcement of the federal immigration, and forbids his employees to ask people about their immigration status. The Coachella City Council unanimously approved a resolution of the Sanctuary City in 2017.

In response to a public comment, Mayor Steven Hernandez briefly dealt with Coachella's status as sanctuary cities at the meeting on Wednesday.

“I find it terrible that families in Coachella and parts in California and nation are torn apart,” said Hernandez. “We have always been an immigrant here in Coachella and we always welcomed our immigrant community.”

But Hernandez said that refuge only reflects “what we can control”, which indicates the budget of public security and the city's information data as examples, emphasized that it cannot stop that federal agents can enter the limits of the city.

“We should continue to know the residents and know what their rights are, but in relation to this idea that we can prevent ice or FBI or anyone from entering the city and carry out the actions to which they were not carried out by the administration, the New PresidentCy,”, “said Hernandez. “We have neither power nor authority.”

Tom Coulter is a reporter of the desert sun. Reach it at thomas.coulter@desertsun.com.

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