Immigration and Customs Enforcement is waiting for previously deported illegal immigrant Joel Quintana-Dominguez.

The 32-year-old was bound over to Macomb County Circuit Court last week to face a potential life in prison for three counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct with children under the age of 13, crimes that allegedly involved his own daughter.

“His next court hearing is in front of Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Toia on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at 8:30 a.m.,” according to a statement from the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office. “Quintana-Dominguez also has an immigration hold from the Department of Homeland Security.”

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Police allege Quintana-Dominguez, who is in the country illegally and was previously deported, was packing his bags to leave the country when he was arrested at a Shelby Township mobile park in July for repeated sexual assaults on a family member, WJBK reports.

“He was packed, and his car was in a manner that he looked like he was leaving for a little bit of time,” Shelby Township Police Sgt. Kevin Bailey told the news site shortly after Quintana-Dominguez’s arrest. “The impact that this child is going to have to go through and everything that they have to deal with is going to be significant.”

Shelby Township Police Chief Robert Shelide told the New York Post he was “disgusted and sickened” by the charges, and “appalled” to learn Quintana-Dominguez allegedly returned to the U.S. after deportation to commit the crimes.

Publicity about Quintana-Dominguez’s arrest prompted other victims to come forward, as well, though his exact number of victims is unclear.

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“Because of our release that we put out, another victim came forward last night and described horrific acts that have occurred,” Schelide told the Post last year. “And the person also informed us that there’s multiple other victims that we’re gonna be searching for.”

The case sparked heated criticisms from Republicans, who pointed to Quintana-Dominguez’s arrest as an example of the consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies.

“You don’t know how many unsolved sexual assaults there are where these guys are just roaming around the country and you can’t really find them,” Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent turned congressman, told The Post last year. “They’re not tethered to anything that’s really traceable… If you want to hide in the country, you can hide in the country.”

Quintana-Dominguez is one of many illegal immigrants charged with or convicted of heinous sexual crimes or deaths in Michigan in recent years, as the state’s population of illegal immigrants has swelled to more than 100,000.

In May 2023 illegal immigrant Luis Bernal-Sosa gunned down the mother of his young child, 22-year-old Leah Gomez, while she was sitting in her car with the child in the back seat. Bernal-Sosa, a Mexican national, was sentenced to life in prison with no option for parole in April 2024.

A month later, previously deported illegal immigrant Brandon Ortiz-Vite murdered Grand Rapids’ Ruby Garcia with an illegally purchased handgun before dumping the woman’s body alongside U.S. 131 and fleeing in her car. Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican national deported by Trump in 2020, was sentenced in November to 39 years in prison.

Garcia’s murder occurred the same month Grand Rapids Police charged Dominican illegal immigrant Louis Angel Otanez-Castello with multiple felonies in a hit-and-run that claimed the life of 53-year-old Robert Delgado, who was sent 115 feet to his death in the May 2024 crash.

Police allege Otanez-Castello was driving “at a high rate of speed” in a 30 mph zone of South Division Avenue after a night drinking at Le Petit Chateau sports bar when video shows Delgado attempted unsuccessfully to avoid the vehicle.

In June, Shelby Township police allege 33-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Hernandez was driving a box truck on M-59 that “rear ended a Buick Verano which triggered a chain reaction involving two other vehicles.”

Nancy Richmond, 88, and her daughter Crystal Brunn, 63, were in the Buick and killed in the crash that victims said left two cars “cut in half,” the Macomb Daily reports.

In July, previously deported illegal immigrant Severiano Marcos Maximo, 42, was deported again after pleading guilty to three felony charges for attempted criminal sexual conduct involving underage children.

The Mexican national, who was busted by a child predator task force in 2023, had crossed illegally into the U.S. on at least two separate occasions.

It was a similar situation for previously deported illegal immigrant Miguel Angel Aparicio-Navas, 36, who faces felony charges for multiple sexual assaults in Ann Arbor in recent years.

There’s also 25-year-old Miguel Hernandez-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who is expected to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting girls under the age of 13 after breaking into a mobile home in Sturgis in March.

Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement released in September showed more than 662,000 illegal immigrants on the agency’s docket who have criminal convictions or charges pending.

Those criminals, the vast majority free to roam the U.S., include 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assaults, 162,231 convicted of assault, 56,533 with dangerous drug convictions, 5,797 convicted of fraud, 18,234 convicted of larceny, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 13,423 with weapons convictions 10,031 convicted of robbery, 9,461 with non-assaultive sexual convictions, 2,521 kidnappers, and 217 convicted of extortion.

Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term to launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, vowing to prioritize illegal immigrant criminals.

“All illegal entry will immediately be halted. And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said in his inauguration speech. “We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

Michigan Republicans, who won a majority in the state House in November, are working to support Trump’s efforts with legislation to block special funding for municipalities that provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

Senate Republicans have also introduced legislation to create a DEPORT task force to align state and federal immigration policies.

“Seeking the American Dream is completely understandable, but we are a nation of laws – laws that must be followed,” state Rep. Steve Frisbie, R-Pennfield, said in a release. “As elected officials, we swear an oath to uphold both the United States and Michigan Constitutions, and I take this oath very seriously.

“We don’t get to pick and choose what laws we follow,” Frisbie added. “Following existing federal law regarding illegal immigration is important to the safety and security of our local neighborhoods and the State of Michigan.”