ICE urges against releasing Haitian immigrant arrested for allegedly killing a colleague
LOS ANGELES:- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a statement urging that an undocumented Haitian immigrant—arrested for allegedly killing a coworker at a Michigan meat processing plant—not be released from jail following an order to detain him.
According to local news reports, this fatal incident occurred on June 30 in Coldwater, Michigan. Valmir Jempsly, an undocumented immigrant from Haiti, got into an argument with his coworker, 21-year-old Brandon Eduardo Velasquez Chavez; Jempsly chased Chavez with a knife and stabbed him in the back. Chavez died at the scene.
Previously, ICE had arrested Jempsly, charged him with murder, and issued a ‘detainer’ against him.
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bisse said, “This illegal immigrant brutally stabbed his colleague to death. The Biden administration had left this killer free within the American community. Had it not been for the Biden administration’s reckless ‘open-border’ policy, this criminal would never have entered our country in the first place, and the victim would still be alive. We have issued a ‘detainer’ urging Michigan not to release the criminal from jail without notifying ICE.”
According to ICE, Jempsly entered the United States illegally via Texas in 2024.
