From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Harold Hutchison

Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday successfully apprehended an illegal migrant charged with raping a minor on a wealthy Massachusetts island.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Nantucket nabbed Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, a 28-year-old Salvadoran national living unlawfully in the country, according to a press release from the agency published Monday. Aldana was charged earlier this year with two counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14 and one count of rape of a child with a 10-year age difference.

“Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo stands accused of some detestable and disturbing crimes against a Nantucket child,” Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons stated on Monday in the press release. “He represents a significant danger to the children of our Massachusetts communities.”

Aldana illegally crossed into the U.S. at an unknown date and unknown location, according to ICE. Such illegal migrants in the country are categorized as “gotaways,” as they were not stopped by Border Patrol or other federal immigration officials before entering the interior of the U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest of Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo. (Photo by ICE)

The Salvadoran national was arraigned in Nantucket District Court for the multiple sex crime charges on July 26, according to ICE. He was later released on bail by the Nantucket District Court on July 29.

“ERO Boston will not tolerate such a threat to the most vulnerable of our population,” Lyons stated. “We will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from our New England neighborhoods.”

Since his ICE apprehension, Aldana has been served with a notice to appear before an immigration judge, and he remains in ICE custody, according to the agency.

“The Nantucket Police Department, specifically the Detective Unit did assist with identifying requested addresses provided to them by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,” reads a Thursday press statement from the police department. Deportation officers made an unknown number of arrests on the island last week, which specifically targeted “violent offenders.”

The Nantucket population in 2022 had a median household income of more than $131,000, according to Data USA, far surpassing the median household income of the country that same year, which was slightly less than $75,000. Housing has become so expensive on the island, that some homes costing as much as $1 million have been offered via a lottery system as a part of a subsidized housing program, according to The New York Post.

President Joe Biden won more than 70% of the vote in Nantucket County in the 2020 presidential election, according to county election results compiled by CNN.

Aldana is one of the countless gotaways who enter the country illegally and undetected by federal immigration authorities. Around two million known gotaways have crossed into the U.S. since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, a congressional source confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation earlier this year.

Over seven million migrants have illegally crossed the U.S. southern border since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Owen Klinsky

European energy company BP has announced plans to sell its U.S. onshore wind business as it aims to concentrate on its core oil and gas business and improve investor sentiment, according to the Financial Times.

BP, along with its rival Shell, has looked to scale back on green initiatives over the past few years, rejecting further cuts to oil production in June 2023. Now, the company is looking to sell its roughly $2 billion U.S. onshore wind portfolio, which consists of stakes in ten operating wind farms and has a total net generating capacity of 1.3 gigawatts, the FT reported.

“We believe the business is likely to be of greater value for another owner,” William Lin, BP’s executive vice president for gas & low carbon energy, told Bloomberg. “This planned divestment is part of our strategy of continuing to simplify our portfolio and focus on value.”

The move comes as BP’s share price sits near a two-year low, and as the company is in the process of “shifting capital away from transition themes and back to the core business,” Biraj Borkhataria, head of European energy research at RBC Europe Ltd XYZ, told Bloomberg. It also comes as the U.S. onshore wind industry has struggled more broadly as installations have slowed due to elevated interest rates and permitting challenges, with BloombergNEF lowering its projections for new onshore wind by 22% through 2030.

BP’s offshore wind (OSW) efforts have also run into challenges, with the company writing down the value of its OSW  portfolio by $1.1 billion last year, and the company’s former renewables chief, Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, telling the FT, “offshore wind in the US is fundamentally broken.”

BP’s competitor Shell has also pivoted away from a renewables transition in recent years, with its CEO Wael Sawan  describing cutting oil production as “dangerous and irresponsible.”

“I disagree with him, respectfully,” Sawan said in July 2023 in reference to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrdaes’ comment that new oil and gas investments are “economic and moral madness.” “What would be dangerous and irresponsible is actually cutting out oil and gas production so that the cost of living, as we saw last year, starts to shoot up again.”

The onset of the Russia-Ukraine war in Feb. 2022 drove energy prices skywards, with gas surpassing $5 a gallon in June 2022, up from roughly $1.80 in April 2020, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

BP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.