EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Immigrant Convicted Of Attempted Murder Caught After Roaming The U.S. For Years

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers successfully hunted down an illegal immigrant convicted of attempted murder who had been roaming the country for years despite having a deportation order and a lengthy rap sheet, The Daily Wire has learned.

Dramatic footage of the May 5 raid showed ICE officers knocking on the door of Sudanese illegal immigrant Gabriel Maror Ayuel’s Nashville apartment before a man appeared at the door. The officers appeared to have a calm interaction with Ayuel before they took him away in handcuffs.

Ayuel received a conviction for first-degree attempted murder in Davidson County in 2003 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to ICE.

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He only served about nine years of his sentence, according to law enforcement sources. The reasoning for his shortened stint behind bars is not clear.

For months, ICE officers investigated his whereabouts and found him at his apartment in South Nashville. He later told the officers that he had just moved into the building the week before his arrest.

“The subject that we just arrested received a removal order about 20 years ago, continued to just remain here in the United States while he was committing those crimes,” one of the officers could be heard saying in the video of the raid as he sat in the driver’s seat.

Ayuel arrived in the United States in 1995 as a refugee, ICE said. While in the United States, he received his attempted murder conviction, and was also arrested for driving under the influence and failure to appear in Georgia, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felony possession of a prohibited weapon and felony flight to avoid prosecution in Tennessee.

While he was behind bars in July 2008, Ayuel received a deportation order, according to ICE. Despite that, he never left the country, which is considered a felony offense.

“Removing illegal aliens with serious criminal convictions from our communities is essential to protecting public safety,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations New Orleans acting Field Office Director Brian Acuna said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.

“We are committed to enforcing immigration laws and prioritizing cases that pose a threat to our neighborhoods,” he added.

The Trump administration’s mass deportation effort has resulted in more than 641,000 arrests and over 800,000 deportations, White House border czar Tom Homan recently told the Washington Examiner.

ICE sources told The Daily Wire that there is a renewed pressure on the force to increase arrest numbers and work longer hours.