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Tulsa County
Coverage of Tulsa County in the Nexus archive.
- ICE lodges detainer for illegal migrant charged with strangling wife and dumping body near Oklahoma highway
Willie Ricardo Merida-Escobar, a Guatemalan illegal migrant charged with murdering his wife and dumping her body near an Oklahoma highway, faces an ICE detainer following his 2023 final removal order. Oklahoma’s 287(g) program enables local law enforcement collaboration with ICE for deportation of criminal illegal aliens.