The Associated Press via The Farmington Daily Times
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque firefighter has been detained by federal officials and is facing possible deportation.
KOAT-TV reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents confirmed they took Jose Gonzalez into custody a few weeks ago.
But city officials said Monday they have a lot of questions about what led to the arrest.
Gonzalez works at the fire marshal’s office on Silver Street in downtown Albuquerque.
ICE agents said Gonzalez, who’s a Mexican national, was convicted of shooting at or from a motor vehicle back in 1999, but they won’t say anything about why they acted on the felony charge more than a decade later.
City’s records showed Gonzalez applied to the Albuquerque Fire department in late 2001, and on his application, he said he was in the U.S. legally.
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