Illegal Immigrant Who Shot Cop Was Set To Be Deported Until Judge Gave Him Second Chance

 The illegal immigrant who shot and wounded a Texas cop had a deportation order against him after he entered the country last year.

Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez, 25, unlawfully crossed America’s southern border in November 2023 along with nearly 600 other immigrants, the New York Post reported, citing a Homeland Security source. When he was captured, the process began for an “expedited removal,” but he claimed he was afraid of persecution in his home country of Venezuela and was sent before an asylum officer.

That officer reportedly rejected Chacon-Gutierrez’s claim of persecution and continued to process him for removal, but he asked to see an immigration judge to make his asylum claim. The asylum judge then vacated the order of removal against Chacon-Gutierrez and allowed his asylum case to continue.

Chacon-Gutierrez was able to stay in the country while waiting for his case to continue. His court date was set for April 2026. But on Sunday, he got into a shootout with San Antonio, Texas, police officers.

Officers from the San Antonio Police Department responded to a domestic violence call around 3 in the morning.

“When officers arrived, they learned that a female victim had been assaulted by her boyfriend,” SAPD Chief William McManus said. “When officers went into the apartment, he was lying in bed with a rifle by his side.”

A SWAT team entered the apartment and a shootout began, according to law enforcement, with Chacon-Gutierrez shooting and injuring one officer. Police say the suspect fired the first shots. Ultimately, Chacon-Gutierrez ended up dead, but it is unclear whether he was shot by police or committed suicide, Fox News reported.

The wounded officer is expected to survive after she received surgery on Sunday.

Chacon-Gutierrez’s girlfriend, who told police he had assaulted her, was not seriously injured, police said.

Last week, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning “the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.” Six Democrats also voted for the resolution.

Former President Donald Trump has said he would have “no choice” but to begin mass deportations if he were to be elected again.

“We have no choice, we have to get the criminals out,” Trump told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “These are murderers. These are drug dealers. These are people that will take women and put them in the trunk of a car and sell them to the highest bidder, they’ll come across the border, human traffickers. Actually, it’s almost as big as the drug trade. Now, you wouldn’t even believe this. And the reason is because of the internet. The internet has made that into a massive business, human trafficking, it’s mostly in women.”