Father of slain Marine speaks out after illegal immigrant who killed son faces third deportation:
The father of a US 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 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 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 a 2017 crash in Maryland that killed 21-year-old US Marine James Ray Walden III.
After being deported in 2020, Martinez-Ballinas was caught attempting to illegally reenter the US 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.
He said he later learned Maryland officials knew Martinez-Ballinas was in the country illegally and that he had been arrested five times between 2012 and 2017 but was released each time.
Walden remembered his son as an accomplished Marine and gifted intelligence analyst whose future was cut short.
“My son was 21 years old. He was just starting his life,” Walden said Friday during an appearance on “The Will Cain Show.” “He was in the Marine Corps. He worked for intel. He worked for the National Security Agency as a crypto analyst, basically Jimmy Spide with a computer. --->READ MORE HERE
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