WALTHAM — Jairon Gutierrez-Hernandez has been in this country since at least 2021. That's when an immigration judge ordered him removed to Guatemala. He didn't go.
Instead, according to Waltham police, he set a vehicle on fire — and admitted to it, in Spanish, through a translating officer. He was charged with arson and property violations.
A judge released him on personal recognizance. No bail. No bond. Just walked right out.
ICE @EROBoston removed Jairon Gutierrez-Hernandez, a criminal undocumented immigrant from Guatemala with a 2021 final removal order and pending criminal charges for arson and property violations.— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) April 22, 2026
According to police in Waltham, Mass., Gutierrez-Hernandez allegedly admitted in Spanish to… pic.twitter.com/TZ7eBt4G5R
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ICE picked him up on immigration violations and put him on a plane back to Guatemala.
Gutierrez-Hernandez is the latest in a long line of criminal illegal immigrants that ICE has had to drag out of Massachusetts — often after the state's own courts let them go first. Just this month, ERO Boston arrested a Brazilian murder fugitive living on Cape Cod who had already been caught by Oak Bluffs police and released on probation. Before that, agents pulled out a man convicted of indecent assault on a child under 14 who'd been living freely in the state, and another facing charges for child sexual abuse material.
These are the people ICE is removing from Massachusetts. Not families. Not workers. Arsonists, child predators, and murder fugitives.
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And yet just yesterday, when DHS posted a photo of Fenway Park with the caption "Our nation and our people are worth fighting for," progressives on X called them "fascists" and "Nazi wannabes." "Boston will NEVER accept you," one wrote. "Do not use our ballpark to promote your inhumane agenda," said another.
That's the framing — that ICE is the villain and everyone they pick up is just an innocent person being ripped from their community. Then you read about Gutierrez-Hernandez. Ordered deported five years ago, still here, setting cars on fire in Waltham, confessing to arson, and walking out of a courtroom for free.
ICE got him out. The Massachusetts court system had its shot and handed him his jacket.

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