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Suspect in South Burlington ICE operation remains at large; Gov. calls agents’ tactics ‘totally unnecessary’
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Federal authorities say a 24-year-old Mexican citizen sought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an operation in South Burlington on Wednesday remains at large. The governor and local law enforcement agencies are criticizing federal authorities for the way the operation was carried out amid protests.
What began as a day of mostly peaceful protest ended in unrest after federal agents used chemical agents and flash bangs to disperse a crowd gathered outside a Dorset Street home.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says agents had been looking for Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez. They say he entered the country illegally from Texas in October 2021 and was detained and removed the next year. But he was arrested by local police for an alleged DUI in Middlebury this past January. Middlebury Police on Thursday say they did not investigate Corona-Sanchez’s citizenship or immigration status because doing so would violate the state’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy. Corona-Sanchez now faces charges of illegal reentry of a removed alien.
Gov. Phil Scott slams ICE agents’ tactics in Vermont action as ‘totally unnecessary’; their target remains at large
A man taken into custody Wednesday, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed a South Burlington home, was not the person they were seeking, according to federal authorities.
The ICE operation drew widespread criticism Thursday from officials across political parties and advocacy organizations in Vermont.
“From my perspective, what unfolded yesterday in South Burlington was totally unnecessary,” Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, said in a statement Thursday.
“The actions of federal law enforcement, from outside the state yesterday, further demonstrates a lack of training, coordination, leadership, and outdated tactics which put both peaceful protesters and Vermont law enforcement in a difficult situation,” Scott added.
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ICE, Vermont police face scrutiny following Dorset Street standoff
That was why agents were able to wrench three immigrants from a South Burlington home, prompting an intense, hourslong confrontation between law enforcement and activists. The criminal search warrant, signed by a federal judge in Vermont, was what local and state police say compelled them to provide security for the federal agents who pushed through a human blockade and rammed down the door to the Dorset Street home.
Then, the next morning, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont revealed that the man who Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were pursuing – a Mexican national who they say fled them in the morning, crashed into two vehicles and retreated to the home – had not been taken into custody. The subject of the search warrant wasn't inside.
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