Authorities in Florida have arrested a 24-year-old Honduran man who pretended to be a juvenile for months to stay on American soil.
One week after his arrest, officials finally learned that Yery Noel Medina Ulloa was not 17-year-old as he told Texas Border agents who kept him in the US and placed him within a Jacksonville family.
Ulloa would a few weeks later, on October 13, stab his 46-year-old foster dad Francisco Javier Cuellar who had not only sheltered him but also hired him at the family’s business.
“When he entered the US, he told me: ‘Mommy, I didn’t go in with my name’,” Ulloa’s mom told reporters. “I went in with the name of another person because right there at the shelter they helped me.”
After stabbing Cuellar to death, Ulloa texted a friend “that he had killed Uncle Francisco” and was arrested, covered in blood, wandering along a local river.
“This horrific crime is the latest example of how unfettered illegal migration costs Floridians’ lives,” Governor DeSantis’ office commented.
“How many more lives will be lost before the Biden Administration decides to uphold the law?”
