US deports a Nigerian, withdraw citizenship for sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) moved 61-year-old Emmanuel Olugbenga Omopariola to Nigeria. He had been in ICE custody in the Dallas area since his arrest on April 18, 2018, when he gave himself at the ERO Dallas Field Office. He departed Dallas May 23 under ICE escort to Nigeria via JFK International Airport in New York City. “This deportation ends this U.S. chapter for Omopariola who sabotaged his own future and opportunities through his heinous crimes against a child, and his lies on his naturalization application and in interviews,” said Simona L. Flores, field office director of ERO Dallas. “By effecting such removals, ICE helps improve public safety and enforces U.S. immigration law.” Initially, Omopariola legally entered the United States on March 25, 1983 at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on a non-immigrant student visa. Acco