Brazilian woman Ilma Leandro De Oliveira, 53, illegally entered the United States more than once. She is expected to be prosecuted for illegal reentry after deportation.
Ilma Leandro
On September 20, 2007, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Leandro after she illegally entered the U.S. near Laredo, Texas, USA. The agency served her a notice and order of expedited removal.
On December 27, 2007, officers with the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) field office in San Antonio, Texas removed Leandro from the U.S. to Brazil. Without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official. she illegally entered the U.S. again at an unknown location on an unknown date.
A girl, now, 14, was allegedly sexually abused from 2015 to 2023 by her father and Leandro, her stepmother. In 2018, Leandro started living in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
On March 18, 2025, Leandro was arraigned by the Falmouth District Court. She was charged with incest, indecent exposure, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, rape of a child, reckless endangerment of a child, unnatural acts with a child and aggravated statutory rape of a child.
On March 19, 2025, Leandro was released on bail from the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne, Massachusetts. After she removed her global positioning system (GPS) monitor, a new warrant was issued for er arrest.
On March 20, 2025, Leandro was arrested in Falmouth by officers with the field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Boston, Massachusetts. She was served with a notice of intent or decision to reinstate a prior removal order.
On April 8, 2025, Leandro was transferred to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS). On May 15, 2025, she will appear in Falmouth District Court for a probable cause hearing on the child sex and abuse charges.
Most of the federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. are within the U.S. Department of Justice, which was formed on July 1, 1870 and is based in Washington, D.C., USA. These include the ATF, the FBI, the USMS, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Formed on May 28, 1924, the U.S. Border Patrol is responsible for securing the borders of the U.S. The agency is under the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Formed on November 25, 2002 and based in Washington, D.C., the DHS is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security. Both the CBP and the ICE were formed on March 1, 2003.
Also based in Washington, D.C, the ICE is under the DHS. The ICE has two components namely ERO and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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