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Border Patrol prevents sex offender from re-entering U.S.

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Published 1:35 AM

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents say they prevented a convicted sex offender from re-entering the U.S. this weekend.

Agents say they saw a man entering the country illegally Friday night about 29-miles west of the Calexico West Downtown Port of Entry. They arrested him and took him to the El Centro Station for immigration and criminal history screening.

A background check identified him as 27-year-old Jose Raul Nicolas-Jimenez, a Mexican national who was convicted of indecent exposure in Orange County in 2014. He served two-years for his crime, and was deported upon his release.

Nicolas remains in federal custody awaiting prosecution.

During the 2019 fiscal year, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested and removed 22 illegal immigrants who were either convicted of, or wanted for, sex crimes. Nicolas is the first sex offender apprehended since the start of the 2020 fiscal year.

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