WORCESTER — Federal immigration agents arrested a Mexican national with a long Massachusetts rap sheet during a targeted enforcement operation in Worcester, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Boston field office announced Tuesday.
Oscar Bautista-Garcia had previously been removed from the United States before turning back up in the Bay State, ICE Boston said, calling him a "criminal illegal alien" in announcing the arrest.
ICE Boston arrested Oscar Bautista-Garcia, a previously removed criminal illegal alien from Mexico, during targeted operations in Worcester, Massachusetts.— ICE Boston (@EROBoston) June 9, 2026His criminal history includes arrests for two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon,...
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The rap sheet
According to ICE Boston's Enforcement and Removal Operations division, Bautista-Garcia's prior arrests in Massachusetts include:
- Two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
- Reckless endangerment of a child
- Strangulation or suffocation
- Assault to maim
- Assault and battery on a family or household member
- Assault and battery with serious injury
- Operating under the influence
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That catalogue — a strangulation charge stacked next to a child-endangerment count next to an OUI — is the kind of file that lands a name on a targeted-operations list rather than leaving the matter to the next traffic stop.
ICE custody pending removal
Bautista-Garcia will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings, the agency said.
That he ever managed to re-enter the United States after his initial removal — let alone accumulate the kind of arrest record ICE laid out Tuesday — is the sort of fact pattern the agency's field offices routinely cite when defending the targeted-operations model.
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