A Mexican national charged in the hit-and-run death of a Colorado grandmother was in the United States illegally. He had also been previously deported multiple times and had been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving just days before, law enforcement officials say.

Last week in Denver, Colorado, 51-year-old Annette Conquering Bear was killed in a hit-and-run collision while she was crossing the street on the way back from a Walgreens store near her apartment. On Monday, the Denver district attorney's office announced formal charges against 39-year-old Juan Sanchez for leaving the scene of a deadly accident and vehicular homicide.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told KUSA-TV Monday in a written statement that the suspect "is an ICE enforcement priority" with multiple previous removals from the United States spanning almost two decades. ICE says federal officials removed Sanchez two times in 2002, three times in 2008, and once again in 2012.

The KUSA report also explains that that just four days prior to the accident that killed Conquering Bear, Sanchez had previously been arrested on suspicion of DUI but released after booking because he was "uncooperative," even though a breath test reportedly showed that his blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit. "Sanchez refused to sit down on the booking bench,” and at one point he he “began laying down on the floor [of a jail cell] refusing to listen to any orders,” a police report says. ICE says that, in that instance, the suspect was released from custody before ICE could even lodge a detainer on him.

Now, ICE told KUSA, the agency has issued a detainer requesting that it "be given timely and specific notification before [Sanchez] is released from local custody for any reason.”

Conquering Bear was a mother of six and a grandmother of five and died just before her 52nd birthday, according to an obituary.

“I wanted to run past the tape, but you can’t. It’s a crime scene," Daryle Conquering Bear told KDVR-TV about the scene of his mother's untimely death. "The officer removed part of it and I seen the top of her head and I knew that was her. There’s nothing you can do."

We know the names of every illegal alien who dies of natural causes in federal custody. But the media ensure we don’t know the names of the thousands upon thousands of people who die at the hands of illegal aliens thanks to sanctuary cities.

It’s quite an arduous task for the media to defend the movement to abolish ICE, thereby retaining millions of other countries’ criminals in addition to our own. Therefore, they must resort to political debates focused on sob stories of aliens in exigent circumstances. After all, why discuss the two million criminal aliens fueling the drug and gang crisis, not to mention identity theft, when you can focus on illegal aliens dying in ICE custody?

The latest attack on ICE comes from USA Today’s Alan Gomez, who published an article yesterday titled, “Migrant in ICE custody removed from life support over family's objections.”

“An asylum-seeking migrant detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement was pulled off life support after his relatives said they requested that doctors continue the lifesaving measures,” began the report from USA Today. The detainee was being held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.

It continues:

More than a month later, the man's body remains in the USA, his relatives said they have been given little information about his death, and his brother has twice been denied a visa to travel to the USA to identify the body and accompany it back home to Cameroon.

Nebane Abienwi, 37, a father of six who fled his embattled country this summer, died Oct. 1 after suffering a "medical emergency" while being detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in San Diego, according to ICE.

You can just conjure up images of ICE stormtroopers with satanic looks on their faces pulling the plug in the hospital room and then locking up the body for a month while engaging in demonic rituals.

In reality, ICE goes out of its way to provide free medical care for people who broke our laws, often over and beyond what Americans would receive. There are no referrals or waiting lines. ICE contracts with medical services and hospitals to provide the care on taxpayer dime to the tune of $260 million per year. In the case of Abienwi, he did not die in an ICE facility, rather in a local hospital, which is what one would expect. The best ICE can do is hand people off to the hospitals. There obviously is no guarantee a patient will always survive.

“The authority to make medical decisions lies with the hospital once a detainee is admitted,” said an ICE spokeswoman in a statement. “ICE works with the family to the extent possible to ensure they can participate in decisions, and hospitals also have their own policies on identifying and working with next-of-kin. According to PBNDS [Performance-Based National Detention Standards] 2011 Standard 4.7, part V.A ‘… the hospital’s internal rules and procedures concerning seriously ill, injured and dying patients shall apply to detainees. The Field Office Director or designee shall immediately notify (or make reasonable efforts to notify) the detainee’s next-of-kin of the medical condition and status, the detainee’s location, and the visiting hours and rules at that location, in a language or manner which they can understand. ICE in conjunction with the medical provider, shall provide family members and any others as much opportunity for visitation as possible, in keeping with the safety, security and good order of the facility.’”

How many murderers are roaming around in King County, Washington, because of its sanctuary policies for illegal aliens? It seems like there’s a new horror story every day.

Carlos Daniel Carillo-Lopez is accused of luring Josue Flores, a rival gang member, into Goldsmith Park in King County, Washington, and pistol-whipping him before shooting him to death. The murder took place at midnight on April 3, but it wasn’t until last week that police arrested Carillo-Lopez and three other suspects involved.

Now, an ICE spokesperson tells me, in response to an inquiry from CR, that the main suspect is an illegal alien. “Accused murderer, Carlos Daniel Carillo-Lopez, is a citizen of Guatemala and in the United States illegally. Carillo-Lopez is a known associate of the Crossroads Locos 13, who originally came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied child,” said the spokeswoman for ICE’s Seattle office. “On April 15, 2015, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) encountered and arrested Carillo-Lopez as an unaccompanied child near Sasabe, Arizona, and issued him a notice to appear the following day. He was then transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and later released on an order of recognizance to a sponsor in Texas.”

An illegal immigrant not only returned to the United States after being deported seven times, the Justice Department says, he also accumulated six drunk driving arrests while he was here.

A Tuesday news release from the United States attorney's office for the Middle District of Tennessee says that Jose Lopez-Ruiz, a 39-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, pleaded guilty in federal court to illegal re-entry into the United States, which is a felony offense.

Lopez-Ruiz, the release said, was encountered by federal authorities in May while Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) was in the process of apprehending someone else. He fled on foot and wasn't apprehended until months later on July 9, when ERO personnel followed a tip that led them to the fugitive in Madison, Tennessee.

The re-entrant's long history as an immigration violator goes back almost 20 years, the Justice Department says. His first deportation from the United States was in 2000, and his most recent of his total seven was in 2018. During his time in the U.S. interior, the release adds, the illegal alien was convicted of driving under the influence five times with a sixth charge pending, though it does not specify where those arrests occurred or if they led to his previous deportations. He faces up to two years in federal prison when he goes up for sentencing in January.

A Justice Department report from August shows that a 72 percent majority of federal prosecutions against non-citizens are for illegal re-entry, while a mere .3 percent of them are made against first-time violators.

Unlike numerous other cases of illegal alien drunk driving in recent years, Lopez-Ruiz's actions haven't been tied to anyone's death. Last month, an illegal immigrant was charged with the drunk driving death of a retired NYPD officer. A 19-year-old illegal alien was charged with killing a 52-year-old Minnesota father of 10 children in April. An illegal Mexican immigrant killed three while allegedly driving drunk in May. That same month, two Californians were killed in collisions within hours of each other in different parts of the state; both suspects were illegal aliens, and both were arrested for drunk driving.

Despite being acquitted of his lone criminal conviction for the death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, the illegal immigrant who shot her is still facing heat on federal charges, the Justice Department says.

In 2015, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was killed by a bullet fired by Jose Garcia Zarate, an illegal immigrant and multiple re-entrant from Mexico. He claims that he found the gun, picked it up, and randomly fired it before throwing it into San Francisco Bay. In 2017, a San Francisco jury acquitted the alien of all murder charges, including involuntary manslaughter.

Zarate was then convicted on felony possession of a firearm. As a seven-time felon and illegal immigrant, the killer wasn't supposed to have the gun. Last week, California's First District Court of Appeal threw out that conviction as well.

“It is undisputed that defendant was holding the gun when it fired. But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, defendant had to know he was holding it,” reads the outlandish ruling.

"So, Zarate admitted to firing the gun, but somehow it doesn’t count as possession because the jury could not have known that the defendant knew he was holding it?" CR's Daniel Horowitz wrote about the court decision. "Wrap your brain around that display of judicial gymnastics for a moment."

But Zarate still faces federal charges, and the DOJ doesn't plan to let him skate, a Tuesday afternoon statement clarified.

“The state-court ruling has no legal effect on the federal prosecution, which will continue,” reads a statement from David Anderson, United States attorney for the Northern District of California. “A repeatedly deported, previously convicted felon has no right to possess a firearm under federal law, even if California extends him sanctuary.”

According to Anderson's office, the suspect was indicted in late 2017 on federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and for being an illegally present alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Possession of a firearm by a prohibited person comes with a potential 10-year federal sentence.