Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 10

ICE Deports Rwandan in Landmark Genocide Case

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A Rwandan man who committed acts of genocide in his home country and subsequently tried to illegally enter the United States was deported April 22 by ICE detention and removal officers.

The case marks the first time an individual was found to be inadmissible to the United States for having engaged in genocide.

Enos Iragaba Kagaba, 50, a citizen of Rwanda, was arrested in December 2001 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. He was initially charged with attempting to enter the United States without valid entry documents, and also with fraud for misrepresenting his identity.

A subsequent in-depth investigation conducted both domestically and abroad by special agents with the former INS uncovered evidence that Kagaba had committed acts of genocide during the 1994 war in Rwanda that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Kagaba requested a hearing before a federal immigration judge, who ultimately sustained the genocide charge in August 2003, as well as the charge that he did not have valid entry documents. That ruling was appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which in September 2004 sustained the lower court’s rulings. An appeal by Kagaba to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals was also denied.

“The United States will not be a safe haven for human rights abusers,” said Mona M. Ragheb, Chief of ICE’s Human Rights Law Division (HRLD). “Those who persecute others have no right to seek protection in the United States.”

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