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    Killer Illegal Immigrant Entered U.S. as ‘Unaccompanied Child’



    by CAROLINE MAY
    4 Apr 2016

    The illegal immigrant charged with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while street-racing drunk, entered the U.S. as an “unaccompanied child” three years ago, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    Edwin (aka Eswin) Mejia, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, absconded after ICE declined to detain him following his arrest and posting bail. Mejia remains at-large and is currently on the ICE Most Wanted list.

    In a letter to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) responding to a series of his questions, ICE Director Sarah Saldana revealed that Mejia was initially apprehended when he entered the country illegally in 2013 but was granted the special treatment afforded to detained unaccompanied minors from noncontiguous countries, released into the U.S. and never deported.

    The answer portion of Saldana’s letter reads:

    In May 2013, Edwin Mejia was encountered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) near Nogales, Arizona, after entering the United States without inspection. At the time of this encounter, Mr. Mejia was 16 years old and determined to be an unaccompanied child. Shortly after the initiation of removal proceedings against him with the issuance of a Notice to Appear, he was transferred to Department of Health and Human Services; Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), as required by law. Mr. Mejia had no recorded criminal history in the United States at this time.

    “In June 2013, consistent with applicable law, ORR released Mr. Mejia to his brother in Tennessee. In early 2014, Mr. Mejia relocated with his brother to the Omaha, Nebraska area,” the missive added.

    According to the letter, Mejia’s next immigration hearing before an immigration judge was scheduled for April 19, 2016.

    In January 2016, Omaha police arrested Mejia after he crashed into Root’s vehicle, allegedly while street-racing drunk. The crash killed Root. ICE has stated that it did not file a detainer against Mejia because his crimes “did not meet ICE’s enforcement priorities.”

    In the letter, Saldana walked back the argument that Mejia’s crimes did not meet the “priority” standard.

    “After further review, we believe that further enforcement action would have served an important federal interest in this case, as provided for in Secretary Johnson’s November 20, 2014 civil immigration enforcement priorities memo,” she wrote.

    Monday Sasse expressed frustration with Saldana’s approach to the Mejia case. Calling her letter “bureaucratic nonsense,” Sasse took the matter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson. Sasse wrote in a letter to Johnson:

    ICE’s response does not attempt to answer why it did not detain an illegal alien who killed an innocent woman and is now on the run as one of ICE’s most wanted. Director Saldana’s handling of this matter shows no regard for the Root family and continues to be an embarrassment to the hard-working men and women at the Department of Homeland Security. I am referring my questions to your office and look forward to a thorough response as soon as possible.

    In his letter to Saldana and Johnson, Sasse asked:

    1. Who exactly at ICE was responsible for evaluating whether Mr. Mejia was a threat to public safety?

    2. Why did ICE decline to detain Mr. Mejia, despite several requests to do so by the Douglas County Police Department? Were each of these requests denied on a case-by-case basis?

    3. In its public statement, ICE referenced the November 20, 2014 immigration executive actions. Why does ICE believe that new policy required the agency not to detain Mr. Mejia?

    4. Did anyone within ICE consider Mr. Mejia a flight risk? What steps were taken to ensure he did not flee the country?

    5. What is ICE doing now to find Mr. Mejia?

    6. Do you consider Mr. Mejia to be a threat to public safety?

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    Another heartbreaker folks. Americans being slaughtered by illegal immigrants in their own backyard. The President, the Congress and the country does not seem to even care. What is it going to take to stop these savages from taking the lives of our countrymen and women?

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    These illegal scumbags have no right to be in this country amongst our citizenry - thank bush, obama for breaching our written laws. The GOP wants open borders, free trade Ryan in the WH - paleeze loser republican dummies, that is asking for another democrat in the WH... They got the winner but they are throwing him away because he is not open borders, free trade - they would settle for a dem instead!

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    The excuse from DHS will set your hair on end.

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    All "minors" should be handed over into the care and custody of THEIR Embassy for processing and deportation. They all lie to come here, we do not know who these kids belong to, it is their governments responsibility to care for them. Not US taxpayers. Stop the human trafficking. The parents are here illegally. Let their Embassy find their parents and deport the whole family.

    Every one else caught at the border should be turned right back around. They came through Mexico and they can go back through Mexico!

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