A 16-year-old's entire family is set to be deported from the United States after the minor killed a Colorado woman in a fatal car crash.
The suspect was found to have been driving illegally and was considered an illegal immigrant at the time of the incident. The teenager is now in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Fatal Car Crash
At the time of the deadly car crash, the teenager was still 15 years old and he pleaded guilty to a felony in the death of the victim, 24-year-old Kaitlyn Weaver. Investigators who worked on the case said that the driver was going 90 miles per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone.
The victim's parents talked about the loss of their daughter following the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office offering the teen suspect a plea deal that had no jail time. The father, John Weaver, said they were all shocked about the love and support that the teenager was getting across the United States, according to CBS News.
The prosecutor in the case charged the defendant with vehicular homicide, which has a maximum sentence of two years in youth corrections. However, they offered the suspect two years' probation and 100 hours of community service if he pleaded guilty in the case.
The victim's father added that they felt like the state's criminal justice system let his daughter down, noting that the development will not help in preventing similar incidents from happening in the future.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said that the Trump administration is working to deport the teenager's family following the fatal car crash. The 16-year-old was said to be an undocumented immigrant from Colombia, Newsweek reported.
Deportation of Teenager's Entire Family
President Donald Trump has made sweeping policy changes since returning to office as he heavily campaigned on mass deportations of illegal immigrants in the country. His government previously set a goal of "a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day."
The mother of the teenager owns a Jeep and she admitted to trying to move her son back to Colombia after the fatal car crash. However, she noted that the 16-year-old wanted to stay in the United States and file for asylum.
There is currently an ongoing asylum claim for the teenager in the court system but ICE officials can still detain illegal immigrants before the papers are finalized. Authorities criticized Arapahoe County leadership for the so-called lenient punishment of the teenager, as per the New York Post.
