DETROIT, Mich. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Monday, October 26, that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested five people in Michigan between October 12 and October 18, in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the statement that ICE officers were arresting people across the country, including in Michigan, and that DHS would enforce the law.

Source: DHS statement via EIN Presswire

According to DHS, Amilcar Jose Suarez Barreto, from Venezuela, was arrested in Grand Rapids on October 12. DHS listed arrests including for felony armed robbery and assault in his history and said an immigration judge issued a final order of removal on January 27, 2025. Sarah Jane Hulbert, from the Philippines, was arrested in Detroit on October 16; DHS listed convictions for aggravated identity theft and domestic violence, as well as other arrests. Those descriptions are DHS's account — an arrest listed in a criminal history is not itself a conviction.

DHS said Anderson Jesus Rosales Ramos, from Venezuela, was arrested in Grand Rapids on October 16, with an arrest for second-degree retail fraud listed and a final order of removal issued on January 19, 2024. Kelvin Ramon Castillo Rodriguez, from Venezuela, was arrested in Detroit on October 18, with an arrest for assault listed, DHS said. Elmer Domingo Lopez Tomas, from Guatemala, was also arrested in Detroit on October 18; DHS listed an arrest for a felony weapons offense and said he was lawfully admitted in March 2025 but did not leave after his authorized period expired in July 2025.

Source: InUS News summary of the DHS release

The October 26 reporting on the release noted that DHS identified convictions only for Hulbert and described arrests or criminal-history entries for the others, and that the release did not provide detention locations, hearing dates or whether the two people with final removal orders had been removed as of October 26. People in immigration proceedings remain entitled to due process, and an ICE arrest does not automatically mean a person will be deported.

DHS did not announce a new regulation or a statewide enforcement program in the statement. It presented the five cases as examples of its enforcement work in Michigan and criticized earlier decisions to release some of the individuals into the country — that characterization is DHS's own description in its release.