ICE Director Gives Excuse For Failure To Detain Illegal

ICE Director Gives Excuse For Failure To Detain Illegal | The Daily Caller: "
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Sarah Saldana gave a baffling — and seemingly inaccurate — explanation during a Senate hearing on Tuesday for why federal immigration agents failed to detain an illegal alien who killed a 21-year-old Iowa woman in a drunken street race in Omaha in January.
ICE ignored a detainer request made by the Omaha police department last month for 19-year-old Eswin Mejia, Saldana said, because his victim, Sarah Root, had “not passed away” at the time the illegal alien drunk driver bailed out of jail.
That comment appears to be inaccurate since Root died hours after the Jan. 31 crash, in which Mejia was street racing with a .241 blood-alcohol level — three times the legal limit.
Mejia, a Honduran national, left jail on Feb. 5 after posting $5,000 bail.
He is now on the run.
...But ICE denied the initial request, and so the investigator and her lieutenant placed a call to an ICE supervisor.
Their call was never returned, however, deputy Omaha police chief Dave Baker told the World-Herald..."