ICE DIRECTOR SARAH SALDANA: “Prosecutorial discretion” reason why agency didn’t detain illegal who killed citizen while drunkenly street racing. [archive] “Mejia, a Honduran national, left jail on Feb. 5 after posting $5,000 bail. He is now on the run.”

According to the Omaha World-Herald, [archive] Root’s father contacted an Omaha police accident investigator expressing his concern with a county judge’s Feb. 4 decision to set a $50,000 bond for Mejia. The illegal alien’s flight risk was also of concern for Root’s father. Mejia had a record for various traffic infractions and for failure to appear in court. ICE never detained him after those run-ins with the law.

The police investigator contacted ICE requesting an immigration hold for Mejia based on Root’s father’s concerns.

But ICE denied the initial request, and so the investigator and her lieutenant placed a call to an ICE supervisor. Their call was never returned, however, deputy Omaha police chief Dave Baker told the World-Herald.