On Friday morning, several shows on Fox News Channel highlighted the shocking murder of a woman in Fort Myers, Florida, by an illegal alien which was recorded on a surveillance camera. CNN also ran a piece on the killing, although reporter Isabel Rosales seemed less sure of whether the perpetrator should be called "illegal."
Fox & Friends began a report on migrant crime by giving the latest on a case of an illegal alien who was convicted of groping several girls in a high school in suburban Fairfax County in northern Virginia. Reporter Alexandria Hoff recalled:
It concerns that man you just saw -- an adult illegal immigrant nearly 19 years old who was attending Fairfax County High School as a junior. Israel Flores Ortiz is his name. He was arrested last month after numerous girls came forward saying he aggressively touched between their legs while in crowded school hallways.
She soon noted that the illegal alien in question entered the U.S. during the Biden administration:
Ortiz entered the country illegally under President Biden, and throughout this case, DHS has demanded Fairfax County not release him when he is done serving time, given the history the county has of ignoring ICE detainers and releasing illegal immigrants out into the streets to offend again.
The Fairfax County District Attorney, Steve Descano, received $600,000 in campaign cash from George Soros.
Moving on to the murder case in Florida, allegedly by Hatian national Rolbert Joachin, Hoff continued: "So this comes on the heels of an illegal immigrant from Haiti being charged with second-degree murder and damage to criminal -- criminal damage to property in a violent hammer attack."
After showing the beginning of the video leading up to the attack, Hoff read a statement by President Donald Trump:
So police say that 40-year-old Rolbert Joachin -- he was caught on camera horrifically bludgeoning a mother of two in broad daylight last Friday at a Fort Myers gas station. President Trump weighing in on this, saying, "This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden administration granted him and all Haitians Temporary Protective Status, a massively abused and fraudulent program which my administration is working to terminate. Please say a prayer for this innocent woman's family. We will ensure quick and severe justice is served in this case."
The Fox & Friends co-hosts then recalled that the White House on Thursday reopened the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, played clips of a couple of the Angel Moms who lost children to illegal alien crime, and noted that the liberal media ignored the press conference.
A bit later on America's Newsroom, reporter Bryan Llenas gave more details on the Florida case, noting Joachim confessed that he deliberately lured the clerk from the store to attack her outside.
While these and other Fox reports labeled Joachim as an "illegal immigrant," CNN's Rosales did not inform viewers that he entered the country illegally and was less certain about how to label him:
Now, here's what we do know about the suspect's legal status. In August of 2022, he entered into the U.S. via a boat. That same year, a federal judge issued a final order of removal. But the government granted him TPS, which expired in 2024, and then he later reapplied for. So the question, "Was he legally allowed to be in this country?" Here's how ICE described it.
Then came a clip of ICE's Kelei Walker asserting that Joachim was allowed to remain in the country as he appealed for an extension of his expired TPS status.
Transcripts follow:
Fox & Friends
April 10, 2026
6:14 a.m Eastern
LAWRENCE JONES: So Virginia's governor is also getting called out over her sharp rising in migrant crime.
AINSLEY EARHARDT: Just a day ago, an illegal immigrant was found guilty of groping girls at Fairfax High School.
BRIAN KILMEADE: So let's go out to Alexandria Hoff with the details. Alex?
ALEXANDRIA HOFF: Hey, yeah, let's start with that because this is a case we've been covering for quite some time. It concerns that man you just saw -- an adult illegal immigrant nearly 19 years old who was attending Fairfax County High School as a junior. Israel Flores Ortiz is his name. He was arrested last month after numerous girls came forward saying he aggressively touched between their legs while in crowded school hallways. An attorney for one of the victims tells Fox Ortiz said he, quote, "did it for fun."
Ortiz entered the country illegally under President Biden, and throughout this case, DHS has demanded Fairfax County not release him when he is done serving time, given the history the county has of ignoring ICE detainers and releasing illegal immigrants out into the streets to offend again. Now, DHS updated with this, saying, "If Fairfax County's sanctuary politicians choose to release this predator back into our communities, ICE stands ready to take him into custody and deport this sexual deviant." Here's acting director Todd Lyons:
TODD LYONS, ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: Work with ICE -- get these criminals out your neighborhoods, make your state safer, you know. There's no harboring illegal aliens that are criminals, murderers -- people that commit these crimes. And that's the draw of a sanctuary jurisdiction. They'll go someplace where they can commit crime. And it's -- for us it's so frustrating because we see innocent people getting murdered all the time, and it's totally preventable.
HOFF: So this comes on the heels of an illegal immigrant from Haiti being charged with second-degree murder and damage to criminal -- criminal damage to property in a violent hammer attack. We're going to show you a bit of video here. Warning, it is graphic. So police say that 40-year-old Rolbert Joachin -- he was caught on camera horrifically bludgeoning a mother of two in broad daylight last Friday at a Fort Myers gas station. President Trump weighing in on this, saying, "This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden administration granted him and all Hatians Temporary Protective Status, a massively abused and fraudulent program which my administration is working to terminate. Please say a prayer for this innocent woman's family. We will ensure quick and severe justice is served in this case."
Now, the suspect illegally entered the country in 2022. He was released into the country by the Biden administration, guys.
KILMEADE: All right, thanks so much Alex. We appreciate it. So the President also yesterday had a press conference, probably in the afternoon, announced a reopening -- relaunching the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, which was shut down under President O'Biden when you saw -- President -- did I say, "O'Biden"? President Biden. Which basically yesterday you had all the victims' families and survivors going up describing their stories with pictures of the victims to say it's about time illegal immigrant criminals were kicked out, and the worst of the worst were thrown out, and they were telling their stories. And I was flipping around -- no other network was carrying it, and I'm sure nobody is putting it in their news reports today.
JONES: Well, Ainsley, they didn't cover the border as well -- how these people got into the country. It doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't cover the voices. I just think about this, though, in the Biden administration, as he let these people into the country. Why would you shut down an office like this. It's like any other type of victims --
KILMEADE: You just want to hear it.
JONES: -- rights organization -- there's no reason to shut that down.
EARHARDT: And the point of this organization is to support the families -- the Angel Families who have lost their loved ones at the hands of illegals. Here is a montage of some of the Angel Families talking about this.
JENNIFER BOS, ANGEL MOTHER OF MEGAN BOS: This is my daughter Megan, and I came here to tell you about her. (editing jump) And she was a mother, a beloved sister, an aunt, a fiercely loyal friend. (editing jump) And the hope that she had for her future was erased by someone who had no right to be in this country. (editing jump) A tragedy like mine and the other families that are here -- excuse me -- could have been prevented.
PATRICIA FOX, ANGEL MOTHER OF CARISSA ASPNES: I am here to speak about my daughter, Carissa Aspnes. Before everything she was extremely driven. (editing jump) Then the crash happened. (editing jump) She is wheelchair-bound, and she ate birthday dinner through a G-tube. (editing jump) Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. There are repercussions, and my family lives it every day.
JONES: I mean, you just look at that --that video, too, that we led with, of the gas station. It's just brutal -- just brutal. And you just --
EARHARDT: Mother of two.
JONES: Exactly. And, you know, one thing that's not talked about -- we talk about citizenship, okay, and the vetting with that. But you're giving people temporary protective status without vetting who they are. I mean, it just doesn't make any logical sense to just say openly, "This group of people, you're protected," without getting to know their background.
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Fox's America's Newsroom
April 10, 2026
9:30 a.m.
BRYAN LLENAS: This was a targeted and planned attack. Investigators say Rolbert Joachin, an illegal immigrant from Haiti, confessed he specifically went to the Fort Myers, Florida, gas station to kill the clerk reportedly identified as a mother of two. Now, graphic and disturbing surveillance video captured the murder. Now, in the video, Joachin is seen repeatedly smashing the clerk's car with a hammer until she comes out to the parking lot to confront him, and that is when he walks right at her, winds up and hits her in the head with the hammer. She falls down unconscious. He then bludgeons her six more times in the face before walking away, killing her in broad daylight.
Joachin was arrested hours later. Video of the attack was shown during his first court appearance. Detectives reportedly said Joachin told them he wore the same clothes the clerk had seen him in two days earlier so she would recognize him, and intentionally smashed the car to lure her outside. Now, DHS says Joachin entered the U.S. illegally from Haiti in August 2022 under the Biden administration. A federal judge issued a final order of removal against him in 2022, but the Biden administration granted him Temporary Protected Status, which expired in 2024.
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CNN News Central
April 10, 2026
2:57 p.m. Eastern
OMAR JIMENEZ: A Haitian man is facing a murder charge in Florida after he allegedly bludgeoned a woman to death with a hammer outside a gas station. President Trump is posting really shocking surveillance video of the killing on social media, calling it a result of former President Biden's immigration policies. I want to bring in CNN's Isabel Rosales, who joins me now. So, Isabel, immigration officials just held a news conference on this case. What is the latest here?
ISABEL ROSALES: Omar, that news conference just wrapped up about 45 minutes ago. Last night, President Trump shared that extremely graphic surveillance footage of this attack, something that we're not going to show in full just because of how sensitive it is. But I can describe to you what happens in the video. We see 40 year-old Rolbert Joachin hitting a car with a hammer. Here's his mug shot right here. And we see the victim right there in the pink exiting the store -- the gas station. She is a store clerk, and we can see, where we're freezing right here, the suspect hitting her over the head. She falls to the ground, and he continues to hit her repeatedly, walking away and leaving her there on the ground. We know from arrest reports that police found her there on the ground, unresponsive and not breathing.
Now, in an email back and forth between me and the Fort Myers Police Department, they told me that the attack was targeted, that while the victim and the suspect did not know each other, the two had had a previous encounter of some sort, something that they didn't go into detail about. Now, President Trump posted on Truth Social saying that the video was, quote, "the most vicious thing that you will ever see," referring to this suspect as, quote, "an animal."
He accused the Biden administration of allowing the suspect to stay in the U.S. after Haitians were granted Temporary Protected Status, which we know the Trump administration has been trying to terminate. Now, here's what we do know about the suspect's legal status. In August of 2022, he entered into the U.S. via a boat. That same year, a federal judge issued a final order of removal. But the government granted him TPS, which expired in 2024, and then he later reapplied for. So the question, "Was he legally allowed to be in this country?" Here's how ICE described it.
KELEI WALKER, ICE ERO MIAMI: When TPS expires, although expired, they still have protection until there's a decision on their renewal application, which he filed timely. So he had protection up until the moment that the administration revoked his protection, which happened just this week. So he no longer has that available to him. Country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can be returned safely. TPS, Temporary Protected Status, was never designed to be a permanent stay in the United States.
ROSALES: Now, the victim has not been publicly named by the Fort Myers Police Department. We know from our CNN affiliate, WBBH -- who spoke to community members and friends and family -- that she's a member of the Bangladeshi community in Fort Myers. She's described as a loving mother -- someone who was very devoted to her faith. Omar?
JIMENEZ: Awful, awful attack, and awful video as well. Isabel Rosales, appreciate you taking us through that.
