The father of a U.S.Marine killed in a hit-and-run crash involving an illegal immigrant is speaking out after federal authorities arrested the man for a third time as he once again faces deportation.Martin Martinez-Ballinas, 38, a Mexican national, was arrested by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 22 after serving a federal prison sentence for illegally reentering the United States.He now faces his third deportation, according to federal authorities.Federal officials said Martinez-Ballinas was convicted in connection with a 2017 crash in Maryland that killed 21-year-old U.S.
Marine James Ray Walden III.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO KILLED NASHVILLE RESTAURANT OWNER TO FACE ICE DEPORTATION AFTER PRISONU.S.Marine James Ray Walden III was killed in a 2017 hit-and-run crash in Maryland.
The man convicted in connection with the crash now faces a third deportation, according to federal authorities.(Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)After being deported in 2020, Martinez-Ballinas was caught attempting to illegally reenter the U.S.
in Texas the following year and was sentenced to 15 months in prison.ICE removed him again in October 2022 but said he later reentered the country undetected, blaming the Biden administration's border policies.
Agents ultimately arrested him in Maryland in December 2023.ICE took custody of Martinez-Ballinas after he completed his federal prison sentence in New Jersey.Walden said Martinez-Ballinas was driving without a license or insurance when he crossed into his son's lane and struck his motorcycle head-on.ICE URGES NORTH CAROLINA TO KEEP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED IN TRIPLE-FATAL HIT-AND-RUN BEHIND BARSMartin Martinez-Ballinas was arrested by U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now faces a third deportation, according to federal authorities.
(U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement)He said he later learned Maryland officials knew Martinez-Ballinas was in the country illegally and that he had bee...