An illegal alien who killed two in a drunken hit-and-run incident back in October was confirmed by the Justice Department to be a Mexican national who’d been deported from the United States eight times.
Miguel Angel Villasenor-Saucedo, 40, was charged this week in the Oct. 22 drunken car crash that killed two women in Louisville. Villasenor-Saucedo was most recently deported in May of 2013.
“Villasenor-Saucedo fled the scene and [Louisville police] officers later obtained a criminal complaint from the Jefferson County District Court charging Villasenor-Saucedo with leaving the scene of a fatal hit and run accident," the Justice Department said in a statement, adding, "A warrant has been issued for Villasenor-Saucedo’s arrest.”
The DOJ reported that Villasenor-Saucedo “had previously been deported from the United States on eight occasions and did not have lawful authority to be present in the United States.”
The DOJ added, “If convicted, Villasenor-Saucedo faces maximum potential penalty of no more than 2 years in prison.”
The federal government’s inability to keep previously deported aliens out of the country was catapulted into the public spotlight last year after an illegal alien who’d been deported five times was convicted of shooting and killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle in broad daylight in San Francisco.
Estimates from the Center for Immigration Studies reveal there are about 172,000 illegal aliens who’ve already been convicted of crimes in the U.S. currently loose in American communities.