Wilmer Yobany Martinez-Sanchez is accused of molesting an 8-year-old child in Brown County, Wisconsin, while an earlier criminal case for felony theft was pending. ICE has placed an immigration hold on him.
Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes.
ICE detainers require ICE to demonstrate that it has determined “that probable cause exists that the subject is a removable alien.”
Right now, the case of a non-citizen Venezuelan gang member accused of sexually assaulting a teen in Prairie Du Chien has grabbed the public’s attention. It’s not an outlier. Real victims, communities, and taxpayers are paying the price of weak Biden/Harris border policies, which are abetted by politicians like U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Every state is a border state.
FILE #1
The Defendant: WILMER YOBANY MARTINEZ-SANCHEZ
The Jail: Brown County, Wisconsin
The Charges: Repeated Acts of Sexual Assault of a Child
Date of Offense: Between 3/12/23-3/11/24
The Details: Martinez-Sanchez, 30, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is accused of committing repeated sexual assaults involving an 8-9-year-old child in Brown County, Wisconsin. Be forewarned that the details are very graphic and disturbing.
The girl, his stepdaughter, told authorities that “when my mom goes to work and I stay home,” her stepdad “touched her private parts at the house,” the criminal complaint says. He would come inside her bedroom, take her clothes off, and touch her, she told police.
The criminal complaint says he told the girl not to make noise. She said “he would hold her mouth with his hands.” It made her hurt. When he left there “was something slimy in her bed,” the complaint says.
He told her “not to tell anyone that he touched her, and this made her feel shame,” the complaint says. The girl was afraid that “zombies would come in her room,” it notes.
Sometimes he touched her with her sister in the bed, and “he would just move her to the side,” the complaint says. He would “cover her mouth so she could not scream,” the complaint says.
Police interviewed Martinez-Sanchez who was “currently serving a 14-day sentence for theft and then on April 19th of this year, he is scheduled to be deported back to Nicaragua,” the complaint says. He needed a Spanish interpreter. He denied the accusations.
ICE detainer: Issued 4/18/24
Past Cases in Wisconsin:
In 2023, Martinez-Sanchez, 30, was charged with felony misappropriating an ID, felony credit card (theft/possess stolen card), and theft of movable property, a misdemeanor, in Outagamie County. In a plea agreement, he was convicted of the credit card felony charge and the other offenses were read-in at sentencing.
His address was given as Green Bay. On 7/10/23, his bail was set at $500. He posted bail four days later. He was eventually convicted and given 15 days in jail and 2 years probation. The judge was Yadira Rein, an appointee of Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers.
Criminal Complaint:
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Open in new tab ICE Detainers Plunge Under Biden-Harris
Illegal immigrants committing crimes is not a story that the corporate media and Vice President Kamala Harris want to tell, especially as border crossings have surged.
Under Biden/Harris, the number of U.S Border Patrol “encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023” hit “the highest monthly total on record,” according to Pew Research Center.
The Biden administration issued just under 300,000 detainers from 2021 through the first quarter of 2024, a rising number, according to Trac Immigration, a project of Syracuse University. However, “overall 50 percent more ICE detainers were issued during the Trump presidency (FY 2017 – FY 2020),” Trac says.
Detainers “are critical for ICE to be able to identify and ultimately remove criminal aliens who are currently in federal, state or local custody,” ICE says. ICE detainers ask local law enforcement to hold a non-citizen inmate for 48 hours before release into the community so ICE can pick them up.
Inmates with detainers are only the people that ICE discovers and where ICE decides to act. Some jails, such as Dane County’s, don’t honor all ICE detainers and don’t give ICE 48 hours to pick up the inmates before release. At the other end of the spectrum stands a jail like Waukesha County, where the sheriff received federal immigration authority through a program called 287g.
ICE detainers “are often used as one indicator of the intensity of what is called ‘interior enforcement’ in contrast to ‘border enforcement,’ Trac writes.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “has long claimed that detainers, often called ‘immigration holds,’ are an essential tool needed to apprehend and deport individuals not authorized to remain in the U.S.,” the site says. “Detainers are supposed to be targeted at noncitizens who have committed crimes here in the U.S.”
In addition, the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested more than 15,000 criminal non-citizens in 2024 alone, including 27 murderers and 202 people for sexual offenses. But those are just the people they catch.
From 2006 to 2023, ICE placed detainers on more than 14,000 non-citizens living in Wisconsin, Trac says.
The first year of Biden-Harris saw the lowest numbers of ICE detainers issued since at least 2006. The Milwaukee and Dane County Jails had the most ICE detainers issued of any jurisdictions in Wisconsin during the time frame below, according to Trac.
The corporate media tend to focus on studies that show illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than non-citizens or they focus mostly on the other side of the coin – say, illegal immigrants whose labor helps keep dairy farms alive. The citizens who committed crimes had a right to be here; illegal immigrants did not. A tougher border policy might have prevented illegal immigrant crimes from occurring in the first place. The stories are worth telling.
“Although no federal law requires cooperation with ICE, many state and local laws, and sometimes court rulings, regulate compliance with ICE detainers,” The Immigrant Legal Resource Center says. Some states have made compliance mandatory, but Wisconsin is not one of them.
“Legally, the requirement of probable cause means ICE can only issue a detainer against (a) a noncitizen, who (b) is already ‘removable.’ A removable noncitizen is someone who can be put in removal proceedings for possible deportation,” the center says.
“ICE describes a detainer as a request to a ‘law enforcement agency to notify ICE before a removable individual is released from custody and to maintain custody of the noncitizen for a brief period so that ICE can take custody of that person,'” Trac says.
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