In September 2021, Tariq Mohammed Intezar was released from prison.
On Wednesday, ICE reported that they had deported an Afghan national who had been paroled into the United States last year and had pled guilty to the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl.
On September 8, 2021, 25-year-old Tariq Mohammad Intezar was one of more than 88,000 Afghans who traveled to the United States on parole at Dulles International Airport as part of the disengagement effort from Afghanistan.
According to a statement made by ICE, he pled guilty to sexually abusing a three-year-old girl and was subsequently convicted of the crime and sentenced to 12 months in prison, followed by five years of released supervision in April 2022. At his sentencing, he had been in the nation for over six months.
An immigration detainer was placed on Intezar in July in Pennsylvania, prompting the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to take him into custody.
A U.S. immigration court ordered his deportation to Afghanistan in September. Intezar refused to pursue an appeal.
According to an ICE press release, Intezar boarded an ICE ERO aircraft out of New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport on a Sunday and landed at Abu Dhabi International Airport on Monday.
Mr. Intezar was swiftly and securely removed by our ERO Philadelphia team, and I am glad of them,” stated David O’Neill, deputy field office director in Philadelphia. “We will remain diligent in defending the American public from dangerous predators and safeguarding our most vulnerable demographic, our children.”
Humanitarian parole, which is meant to be utilized in exceptional cases with a considerable public benefit or urgent humanitarian grounds, was used to admit Intezar into the United States. After the premature pullout from Afghanistan last year, the device was utilized to expeditiously process tens of thousands of Afghans into the United States.
The government was able to circumvent the lengthy special immigrant visa (SIV) and U.S. refugee admissions processes in this way.
Even while Republicans and others have voiced concerns, DHS has frequently defended the vetting and what it has dubbed a “multi-layered” screening and vetting process.
According to a September assessment by the DHS Office of Inspector General, CBP “did not always have key data to adequately screen, vet, or examine the evacuees.”
So, “DHS may have allowed or paroled persons into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities,” the study states.
During the same month, Fox News Digital reported that an Afghan man had been paroled in the United States in November 2021 and was now facing charges in New Mexico concerning a sex offense committed against a 12-year-old youngster. To Fox’s satisfaction, ICE has confirmed that a detainer has been requested for the suspect.