ICE Freed Illegal Alien In Mass. Double Murder

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A fatal federal red-tape delay may have left a suspected illegal alien accused of gunning down two people at a Lawrence birthday party free to roam the country while awaiting a March 2011 deportation hearing, the Herald has learned.

Dominican immigrant Fernando Guerrero-Lara, 27, was awaiting a March 7 preliminary removal hearing in U.S. Immigration Court in Harlingen, Texas, when authorities say he and a second triggerman unleashed a bullet bloodbath at a Labor Day birthday bash at La Guira Restaurant on Broadway in Lawrence.

Guerrero-Lara, charged in Texas with violating immigration law, was scheduled to appear at a so-called master calendar hearing on March 7, a preliminary step toward deportation, said Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

In addition to killing Juan Suazo of Hyde Park, the gunplay Tuesday claimed the life of Amarilis Roldan of Dorchester, a medical assistant with a 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter who was shot in the back of the head while saving her sister’s life.

Both Roldan and Suazo were just 24 years old.

Fed red tape eyed in bloodbath - BostonHerald.com


There is more to this story. No one will say why he was being deported in the first place.

Mattingly declined to elaborate on why the Department of Homeland Security was trying to give Guerrero-Lara the boot.

DHS????