Immigration officials say Pelosi attacker was in US illegally - CNN

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David DePape, the antheral accused of violently attacking Paul Pelosi past week, was successful the United States illegally and whitethorn look deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said precocious Wednesday.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an migration detainer connected Canadian nationalist David DePape with San Francisco County Jail, Nov. 1, pursuing his Oct. 28 arrest,” the section said.

ICE issues alleged migration “detainers” to federal, state, and section instrumentality enforcement agencies to pass them that the bureau intends to instrumentality custody of an idiosyncratic and requests that ICE beryllium notified earlier that idiosyncratic is released.

The detainer is improbable to impact DePape’s lawsuit since deportations often hap aft transgression cases are resolved. But aft condemnation and situation sentence, the US usually would question deportation.

According to national records, DePape, a Canadian citizen, entered the state connected March 8, 2008, astatine the San Ysidro larboard of entry, which is on the California-Mexico border, arsenic a impermanent visitor. Generally, Canadians who are visiting for concern oregon pleasance don’t necessitate a visa and are allowed to enactment successful the US for six months.

DePape, 42, has been charged with a litany of crimes, including assault, attempted execution and attempted kidnapping, pursuing past week’s break-in astatine Pelosi’s San Francisco home, the US attorney’s bureau and San Francisco territory lawyer announced connected Monday.

He was charged with 1 number of “attempted kidnapping of a US official,” according to the US attorney’s bureau for the Northern District of California. That complaint relates to Nancy Pelosi, whom DePape told constabulary helium planned to “hold hostage,” according to an FBI affidavit besides unsealed connected Monday.

DePape entered a not blameworthy plea Tuesday to each authorities charges during his archetypal quality successful court. He has not yet entered a plea successful national court.

Correction: This communicative has been updated to close the day DePape entered the country. It was March 8, 2008.