Connecticut Murder, Kidnapping Suspect Was Deported in 2013

The suspect who sparked an Amber Alert Friday for absconding with his six-year-old daughter after reportedly killing her mother was an illegal alien who had been previously deported in 2013, immigration officials revealed Saturday.

Oscar Obedio Hernandez, who is accused of killing his girlfriend, Nidia Gonzalez, during a double stabbing that left another woman in critical condition, ran off with their daughter, Aylin Sofia Hernandez. Authorities put out an Amber Alert. Hernandez was captured later Friday morning in Pennsylvania.

“He has prior felony convictions from 2002 for assault and threatening, as well as several misdemeanor convictions. ICE has placed an immigration detainer with the Bridgeport (Connecticut) Police Department.”

But when details surfaced Saturday revealing that Hernandez had been previously deported, it threw into further scrutiny the memo Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his commissioners issued Wednesday instructing local officials to refuse to comply with federal immigration officials and laws.

“Oscar Obedio Hernandez, a citizen of El Salvador, was issued a Final Order of Removal by an immigration judge on Oct. 29, 2013,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer said in a statement, according to Fox 61. “He was removed from the United States by ICE officers in Hartford, CT on Nov. 27, 2013. He has prior felony convictions from 2002 for assault and threatening, as well as several misdemeanor convictions. ICE has placed an immigration detainer with the Bridgeport (Connecticut) Police Department.”

In response, Malloy spokeswoman Kelly Donnelly issued a statement, saying, “Our local laws are designed to protect our residents and also ensure that those in harm’s way feel safe seeking help from law enforcement. That’s why convicted violent felons are detained for deportation under our state laws that the governor has consistently and strongly supported.”

But Donnelly’s words ring hollow when compared with Malloy’s Wednesday statement issued in defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive orders cracking down on illegal immigration and prioritizing the deportation of criminal aliens like Hernandez.

“Putting all opinions about this presidential executive order aside, its enforcement is going to have a local impact, especially given the constrained resources and financial impact this will have on state and municipal budgets, which we already know are stretched to their limits, in addition to giving rise to serious concerns in affected communities,” Malloy said.

“Above all, we are obligated protect the rights afforded to all our residents and ensure that students attend safe, welcoming schools. The best approach for local communities is to have a plan in place so that everyone in our state, including young students, are supported respectfully and fairly under the laws of our state and our nation,” Malloy added.

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The memo to Connecticut’s police chiefs recommended that “law enforcement should not take action that is solely to enforce federal immigration law.”

“The federal government cannot mandate states to investigate and enforce actions that have no nexus to the enforcement of Connecticut law or local ordinances,” the memo read. “ICE detainer requests are requests, they are not warrants or orders and this should only be honored as set forth in Connecticut law, unless accompanied by a judicial warrant … Law enforcement should not provide access to individuals who are in law enforcement custody for purposes of questioning by ICE and any such request, as noted above, should be referred up the chain of command for evaluation.”

The governor’s memo was slammed Thursday by the mother of a young woman who was murdered by a previously deported criminal alien in 2015.

Wendy Hartling, the mother of 25 year-old Casey Chadwick, who was murdered by illegal Haitian immigrant Jean Jacques, said she was “outraged” by Malloy’s order during an interview on Fox News.

“I’m outraged,” Hartling told anchor Martha MacCallum, “How can he say not to enforce the laws that are out there and in place? It hurts me and it will hurt a lot of people, that we tragically lost our children to criminal illegal aliens that should have been deported and should still be deported. It’s not happening fast enough.”

Chadwick’s murderer had been deported twice before brutally stabbing her to death in her Norwich apartment in 2015.