BOSTON — ICE Boston has booked Joko Herbert Thomas, a Sierra Leone illegal immigrant arraigned on 50 separate adult charges — and an immigration judge has already ordered him deported.

"ERO Boston arrested Joko Herbert Thomas, a criminal illegal alien from Sierra Leone," the agency wrote. "Thomas has been arraigned on 50 separate adult charges, including felony breaking and entering, strangulation, malicious destruction of property, and assault and battery w/ a dangerous weapon."

The agency added that Thomas already has a conviction record on top of the open charges — for breaking and entering, trespassing, disorderly conduct, and assault and battery on a household member.

Thomas had 50 separate adult charges pending — and a final order of removal from an immigration judge — when ICE Boston finally took him into custody. That an illegal immigrant with that record could remain on Massachusetts streets in May 2026 is the predictable result of state and local policies that have steadily narrowed cooperation between Massachusetts authorities and federal immigration enforcement.

The pattern that produces is the one Joko Herbert Thomas's case shows in microcosm: a federal removal order in hand, a pile of state-court charges and prior convictions on the record, and the man himself walking around Massachusetts until ICE — not state authorities — got there.

An immigration judge has issued him a final order of removal. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal from the United States.