The tragic deaths of two American teenagers at the hands of an illegal alien was “completely preventable,” according to a top Department of Homeland Security official.

Illegal alien Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was deported from the U.S. twice before being “convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, which resulted in the death of a young American couple,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, told The Daily Signal. “This criminal illegal alien should have never been in our country.”

Ortega-Anguiano was sentenced to 10 years in prison after crashing into a vehicle on a freeway in Orange County, Calif., in 2021, claiming the lives of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, who were both 19 at the time.

The parents of the teens were informed on Easter Sunday that the man responsible for their children’s deaths will be released from prison early.  

“Sanctuary state California is letting [Ortega-Anguiano] out after serving just three years of a 10-year prison sentence,” McLaughlin said. “[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] has placed a detainer with the California Department of Corrections. We hope California law enforcement will work us to ensure this criminal alien is not released into American communities.”

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