A Honduran man in the United States illegally who had already once been deported back to his country has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a woman in Detroit.
Alex Salazar-Aleman was arrested May 9 by city police in the 4200 block of Monterrey Street, a Border Patrol agent wrote in a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan charging the 35-year-old with illegally reentering the country.
Officers heard a woman screaming inside a vehicle and saw her inside, covered in blood and stab wounds, the agent wrote. She pointed to Salazar-Aleman in the front seat when asked who hurt her. A witness told police they saw Salazar-Aleman carry the woman from their residence to the car.
Salazar-Aleman is charged with attempted murder, assault with the intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, felonious assault and domestic violence.
He was arraigned May 9 in Detroit’s 36th District Court and is being held in the Wayne County Jail on a $1 million bail.
Salazar-Aleman had been deported in 2018 and arrested in March 2019 for illegally crossing the border in California. He was processed for removal and was released. He was arrested in March 2020 in Shelby Township for failing to follow the conditions of his release and deported that same month.
President Donald Trump’s administration said in July that violent crime in the U.S. was falling as Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed the “worst of the worst” from the U.S.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement in July that 70% of ICE arrests involve immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been convicted of or charged with a crime.
But a 2024 study in Texas by the National Institute of Justice found that undocumented immigrants offend at a lower rate than U.S.-born citizens do. A 2024 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research also found immigrants have had a lower incarceration rate than people born in the U.S. for 150 years and are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than those born in the U.S.
kberg@detroitnews.com
This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Deported Honduran man charged with attempted murder in Detroit
Reporting by Kara Berg, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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