Honduran man accused kill A woman in Iowa was extraditioned to the U.S. Friday while driving in Nebraska in 2016 after fleeing the U.S. after Bond was released.
Eswin Mejia was arrested in Honduras on Thursday and flew to the United States to face the death of 21-year-old Sarah Root, the State Department said.
“Nine years ago, Sarah was killed by an illegal immigrant and later fled our county,” Marco Rubio wrote on X. Today, today, Trump administration It is being announced that Sarah’s killer will be extradited from Honduras to the United States to face justice once and for all. ”
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Eswin Mejia was handcuffed on his way back to the United States. (Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security)
Mejia, living in We are illegal He was allegedly drunk when a fire light hit a root’s vehicle in Omaha, Nebraska in January 2016. She later died in the hospital.
Megia was detained and prosecuted, but fled the country after Bond was released. He was later added to the “most wanted” list of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At the time of arrest, ICE said Meggie was not an “executive priority.”
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).
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Images of authorities in Honduras. (Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security)
“The Trump administration never forgets Sarah Rutt’s story,” she wrote on social media. “We fight for justice together to hold her life accountable for illegal immigrants. Iowaians and every American know that this administration will always put our citizens first. ”
According to an Ice response letter to Senator R-Neb at the time, border agents first met Mejia when they arrived in Nogales, Arizona in May 2013, when he arrived in Nogales, Arizona and was designated as an unaccompanied child. “As required by law,” Megia was transferred to the refugee resettlement office, and then transported him to Omaha in 2014 to live with his brother.
After being arrested for car homicide in January 2016, ICE officials “met only once” but they were not detained.
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February, Honduras reached an agreement Continue a century-old extradition treaty with the United States. Tensions between the two governments reached the deal after officials expressed concerns about a meeting between Honduran officials and Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, who faces allegations of drug trafficking in the United States, which faces drug trafficking.
