On Sunday morning, Aaron Noe Camey Valenzuela, 23, walked into the United Solutions plastics factory in Leominster, Massachusetts, grabbed his girlfriend from behind, and slashed her throat. The woman, Elba Monges, was taken to the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, where emergency surgery was performed, and is currently in stable condition.
Another woman, Mary Machado, was also stabbed by Valenzuela when she came to the aid of her co-worker. Her injuries were not serious.
According to Leominster police Lt. Michael Goldman, a plant supervisor wrestled Valenzuela out of the building, at which time the assailant produced a another knife and began cutting himself. Valenzuela slashed at his own wrists, neck, and abdomen, but his wounds were apparently not serious.
The Guatemalan national fled the scene and was captured four hours later in a nearby apple orchard.
Valenzuela, was charged with attempted murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, as well as one count of assault and battery.
Lt. Goldman told reporters that Valenzuela was angry with his girlfriend because he believed she was going to break up with him.
Valenzuela was deported in 2006. He is being held on $100,000 bail.
In another case, which should serve as an indictment of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Judge David Cercone sentenced an illegal alien to probation in November 2009, after his 10th illegal crossing into the United States.
U.S. Attorney Robert Cessar said that between 1998 and 2007, Uziel Jesus Lopez-Jiminez, 28, had been deported back to Mexico nine times.
His last arrest and deportation came as a result of a DUI conviction in Beaver County, PA.
The Mexican national has committed at least nine felonies in this country.
The court proceeding came only a few days after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a crowd gathered at the Center for American Progress, that border enforcement was now much tougher and we can now proceed with an Amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens inside this country.
Citing the supposed improvements in border enforcement, Napolitano said: "I've been dealing hands-on with immigration issues since 1993, so trust me: I know a major shift when I see one, and what I have seen makes reform far more attainable this time around.”
And the beat goes on…