U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and deported El Monte gang member Luis Gonzalez Friday, Nov. 22, after he was released on parole from state prison.

ICE officers were able to verify his identity at the Calipatria State Prison, near the southern end of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, with the cooperation of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to a statement from Jamison Matuszewski, ICE deputy field office director in San Diego.

The CDCR honored “the lodged detainer for this violent felon,” Matuszewski said in the statement.

Gonzalez was convicted on separate burglary charges in 1994 and 1996. An immigration judge ordered his removal to Mexico Feb. 11, 1999. ICE removed him to Mexico in February 1999 but at some point he re-entered the country, ICE said in the release.

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Gonzalez was processed Friday at ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office in El Centro and then deported to Mexico, according to the news release.

Family members of da Silva held a news conference Thursday, Nov. 21, to bring awareness of Gonzalez’s pending release.