NEW ORLEANS, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

This illegal alien was previously deported in 2002

WASHINGTON -The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainerasking Idaho to not releaseanillegal alien charged withrepeatedly sexually abusing a child.

According to local reporting,deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office attended a forensic interview atachild carecenter in Pocatello,where an underage victim told deputies that a man hadsexuallyabused her multiple times when she was between the ages of 3 and 8.Following this interview, police arrested the suspect, Jose O...