Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that an illegal alien fugitive accused of killing a 21-year-old woman while street racing and driving under the influence has been extradited to the United States from Honduras.
Rubio said that Eswin Mejia, who fled the United States after being charged in the death of Sarah Root, would soon be facing American justice. Root was killed in 2016 on the night of her college graduation after police said that Mejia drunkenly crashed his vehicle into her vehicle at a stoplight as he was street racing in Omaha.
Mejia fled the country in 2016 after he was charged and released on a $5,000 bond, but was arrested in Honduras late last month.
“President Trump has never forgotten or stopped fighting for justice after Sarah Root was tragically murdered in 2016 by an illegal alien who was driving under the influence and became a fugitive from…