Illegal Immigrant On Run After Murdering Leftwing Activist Girlfriend;
The DHS Had Released Him After a Kidnapping Charge in 2018

So it's too bad that this murder happened but -- who did you vote for? Did you vote for this?

Illegal migrant on the run after allegedly murdering activist girlfriend following kidnapping

The Homeland Security Department released him two years ago after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping a woman in 2018.

Officials are searching for an illegal migrant suspected of murdering his social justice activist girlfriend in Illinois -- less than two years after immigration officials released him after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping an ex-girlfriend.

Gabriel Calixto Pichardo, 25, is accused of fatally stabbing Emma Shafer, 24, in her Springfield home in July. He is wanted on three first-degree murder charges and one aggravated domestic battery charge.

Federal agents are working alongside the Springfield, Ill., Police Department to track down Calixto Picardo. A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service told Just the News on Monday that the agency does not have any confirmation as to whether Pichardo is or is not currently in the United States.

Shafer was the membership chair of the Sierra Club Sangamon Valley Group, an environmental group, and an incoming board member for the Springfield Immigrant Advocacy Network, which helps migrants in the area, according to her obituary. Shafer also was an organizer with Faith Coalition for the Common Good, which says on its website that it fights for racial and economic justice.

The Marshals Service confirmed to Just the News that he had a previous kidnapping charge.

Documents related to that 2018 incident show that Calixto Pichardo previously said his mother was fleeing abuse in Mexico when she brought him to the United States at the age of 5 and he was granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status a decade later.

Kathryn O'Brien told local outlet WAND last week that she dated Calixto Pichardo in high school and he stalked her after she broke up with him. He eventually went to her grandmother's house and held a knife to her throat, and O'Brien filed a restraining order against him, as shown in court filings.

Shortly thereafter, Calixto Picardo used a gun to force her into his car, she said. He brought her to a motel where he threatened to rape her, and police records show he also had rope and a knife.

Ah the "Dreamers," the beautiful Dreamers. Truly the best of us.

Notice he was released in 2018. This was of course during the "strong" presidency of Trump, who is not "strong" enough to actually bend the federal bureaucracy to his will. And who was then, and is now, far more interested in surfing Twitter and watching his palz on Fox News than keeping updated on his priorities and riding herd on the bureaucracy.

But he'll be better at it next time despite 1, not admitting any flaws that caused him to fail at this last time, and therefore not creating the possibility of actual improvement, and 2, despite not actually offering any plan to better tame the Swamp (I think we can write off the possibility of "draining" it) other than just announcing emptily that he will be "strong."

posted by Ace at 02:15 PM

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