Former President Trump blamed the Biden administration for the beheading of a Dallas motel manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah, by Cuban national Yordanis Cobos-Martinez. Cobos-Martinez, who had a history of arrests including child sex abuse and grand theft auto charges (though not all resulted in convictions), was released from ICE custody under an order of supervision in the final days of the Biden administration. ICE confirmed Cobos-Martinez was in the U.S. illegally and had a deportation order, but Cuba refused to take him back. Trump, in a Truth Social post, linked the incident to his immigration policies and vowed to make America safe again.

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