Illegal alien arrested after threatening to assassinate Trump in handwritten letter, DHS says
The man, 54-year-old Ramon Morales-Reyes, said in the letter he would “shoot your precious president in is [sic] head” before self-deporting back to his native country of Mexico.
An undocumented US immigrant has been arrested after he sent a handwritten letter to the government saying he planned to assassinate President Donald Trump, officials said.
Reyes had a criminal record including multiple arrests and attempts to enter the US illegally, the DHS said in a statement. The BBC could not find a lawyer for Reyes for comment.
“Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
Homeland security officials said authorities received the letter from Reyes on 21 May.
They included a copy of the letter in a press release. Written in blue ink on lined-paper, the letter said: “We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans.”
“You have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump gets what he has coming to him.”
The final line of the letter said: “I will see him at one of his big rallies.”
