Nantucket's migrant crisis handling called out after quiet island rocked by wave of violent attacks
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Toby Brown, head of Nantucket's GOP, wants more vetting on the island after illegal migrants accused of sex crimes and assault there were seized by ICE.
ERO Boston announced the Sept. 12 arrest of 30-year-old, Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia, a Salvadoran illegal immigrant and documented member of MS-13. (ICE ERO Boston) Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, a 41-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was charged with a sex crime against a Nantucket resident. (ICE ERO Boston) Elmer Sola is charged with 11 counts of sex crimes against a child — specifically, three counts of aggravated rape of child and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. (ICE ERO Boston) ICE ERO Boston announced the Sept. 10 arrest of 28-year-old Salvadoran illegal immigrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, who is charged with one count of rape of a child with a 10-year age difference and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. (ICE ERO Boston) ICE ERO officials announced the Sept. 11 arrest of Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, an illegal immigrant from Brazil, who is charged with indecent assault and battery on a person 14 years or older. (ICE ERO Boston) Christina Coulter is a U.S. and World reporter for Fox News Digital. Email story tips to christina.coulter@fox.com.
Toby Brown, chair of the Nantucket GOP and a Nantucket resident for three decades, was among the few on the island who would openly voice concerns about illegal immigration in the wake of the arrests.
"We need to have this conversation and not just keep having this... idea that if you're somehow worried, you're a racist… people just need to not be afraid to speak up," Brown told Fox News Digital.