Widow: Feds failed twice to detain immigrant who murdered my husband

Federal immigration officials repeatedly fumbled their efforts to deport a criminal in the country illegally before he committed several murders, a victim’s widow told Congress Wednesday.

“In the 18 months before the senseless murder of my husband, this killer has been in custody on three occasions, yet federal officials failed to detain or deport him,” Julie Nordman of Wentzville, Mo., told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in a prepared statement. “Had they just done their jobs and followed the laws, my husband would still be alive, and so would the four other innocent victims [the killer] brutally murdered.”