President Donald Trump vowed that “quick and severe justice” would be meted out for the illegal immigrant who allegedly bludgeoned a mother to death with a hammer outside a Florida gas station last week.
In a long Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump blamed his predecessor for the lenient open-border policies that led to the woman’s death.
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“An Illegal Alien Criminal from Haiti, who was released into our Country by the WORST President in History, Crooked Joe Biden, and the Radical Democrats in Congress, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida,” he wrote.
Later in the post, Trump advised viewers against watching the 20-second video if they find its violent content disturbing.
“The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see,” he warned.
Rolbert Joachin, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Haiti, was accused of striking the woman multiple times in the head on April 3. The victim walked out of a convenience store at the Fort Myers gas station, where she reportedly worked, after the suspect appeared to be breaking a car windshield with a blunt hammer. The homicide unfolded moments later.
“I don’t recommend you watch this tape, because it is so terrible, but felt I had an obligation to put it up so that people can see what Democrats are protecting, and wanting to come into our Country, even now, after all we’ve been through,” the president said.
Joachin entered the United States in August 2022 and was released into the country by the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security said in a press release on Tuesday. A federal judge ordered the illegal immigrant to be removed from the country in 2022, but he ultimately stayed longer because he was granted temporary protected status as a Haitian national. His status under that protection expired in 2024.
Trump criticized the “massively abused and fraudulent” TPS system that allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the United States under former President Joe Biden.
“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said.
The Trump administration’s decision to end the TPS program for approximately 350,000 Haitians has been repeatedly set back in court. In March, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling. The case is now before the Supreme Court, which is set to hear oral arguments on April 29.
“This one killing should be enough for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and allow us to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL,” Trump said.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer against Joachin, and DHS vowed to deport him regardless of the outcome of the case. The immigration agency assisted the Fort Myers Police Department in the arrest of the suspect.
Telling “fellow Republicans” and “all Common Sense Americans” to reflect on four years under Biden, Trump warned that the southern border will be reopened if Democrats regain control of Congress and the White House.
