Failure to deport results in 5 murders
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March 28, 2012, Wednesday
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SIX years ago, a US immigration judge ordered the deportation of Binh Thai Luc, the man now suspected of killing five people in a San Francisco home last week, federal authorities said.
Luc was to return to his native Vietnam after serving time in prison for armed robbery and assault, but he was never deported because the Vietnamese government didn't provide the documents needed to process his removal from the US, officials said on Monday.
The 35-year-old Vietnam citizen now faces murder charges in the deaths of five people whose bodies were found on Friday in what police initially thought was a murder-suicide.
Luc was contacted by immigrations agents while he was serving his sentence for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon at San Quentin State Prison. After he was ordered to be deported, the agency sought the official documents it needed to return him to Vietnam, but never got them, said Gillian Christensen, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy press secretary.
US law establishes that all aliens who face a deportation order can't be held for more than 180 days. After that, if they can't be removed from the country within the reasonably foreseeable future, ICE has to release them, she said.
That was the case with Luc, who was released into the community after spending nearly a decade in an ICE detention facility in Eloy, Arizona, in 2006, she said.
"He continued to report to the ICE office in San Francisco as required after his release from ICE custody, and had no other incidents or arrests during that period," Christensen said.
Luc was booked on five counts of murder on Sunday. Police say he knew the victims.
Luc was to return to his native Vietnam after serving time in prison for armed robbery and assault, but he was never deported because the Vietnamese government didn't provide the documents needed to process his removal from the US, officials said on Monday.
The 35-year-old Vietnam citizen now faces murder charges in the deaths of five people whose bodies were found on Friday in what police initially thought was a murder-suicide.
Luc was contacted by immigrations agents while he was serving his sentence for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon at San Quentin State Prison. After he was ordered to be deported, the agency sought the official documents it needed to return him to Vietnam, but never got them, said Gillian Christensen, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy press secretary.
US law establishes that all aliens who face a deportation order can't be held for more than 180 days. After that, if they can't be removed from the country within the reasonably foreseeable future, ICE has to release them, she said.
That was the case with Luc, who was released into the community after spending nearly a decade in an ICE detention facility in Eloy, Arizona, in 2006, she said.
"He continued to report to the ICE office in San Francisco as required after his release from ICE custody, and had no other incidents or arrests during that period," Christensen said.
Luc was booked on five counts of murder on Sunday. Police say he knew the victims.
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