Alleged Ricin attacker was illegal alien deported from Rio Grande Valley

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Yesterday, we learned that the woman accused of sending a letter containing ricin powder to the White House and unnamed prison officials had been arrested at the Canadian border. The FBI is currently in charge of the case, working in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies in both countries and they’re still being very tight-lipped in terms of details. That’s understandable, of course, at least until they’re confident that they know the full scope of the threat and have time to identify any possible accomplices. But some reporters have managed to track down some significant information about the attacker in the meantime, while still not disclosing her name.

ABC News is reporting that the still-unnamed woman is definitely a Canadian citizen, not an American. And this wasn’t her first run-in with the law. She was detained in Texas and deported by the CBP in 2019 after overstaying her visa. This incident appears to provide a connection to the other targets of her attempted poisoning attack aside from the White House.

A Canadian woman who was arrested this weekend on charges of mailing the poison ricin to the White House, had been deported back to Canada from South Texas after overstaying her visa in 2019, according to a report in The New York Times.

And Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra on Monday afternoon said that “envelopes” of ricin were mailed to him and three others in South Texas associated with the case, but resulted in no injuries. Border Report reached out to Guerra but he did not comment and tweeted this is an “active federal investigation.”

Art Flores, an investigator with the Mission Police Department, told Border Report on Monday afternoon that an envelope was mailed to Mission Police Chief Robert Dominguez last week, on Thursday or Friday, “and has been confiscated by the FBI.” Nobody was injured, Flores said.

Now we’re beginning to see what may turn out to be a possible motive for the woman’s attacks. Shortly after her arrest, we were told that the additional ricin letters had been sent to unnamed prison officials. That didn’t make much sense to me at first, but now that some of the officials in question have been identified, the picture becomes a bit clearer. The prison/jail officials who were targeted in Texas were all somehow involved in the woman’s detention and eventual deportation last year.

Sheriff Eddie Guerra of Hidalgo County, Texas was one such recipient, a fact he confirmed on Twitter yesterday.

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The woman was originally from France but got Canadian citizenship in Quebec.  While the Rio Grande Valley gets its share of illegal aliens and is used to dealing with them, getting one from Canada is unusual.  It is suspected that she sent the ricin to Trump because of his opposition to illegal immigration.