{"id":234654,"date":"2026-04-04T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:26:07","slug":"texas-illegal-immigrant-accused-of-murdering-wife-weeks-after-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234654\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas illegal immigrant accused of murdering wife weeks after marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently lodged a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer pleading with\u00a0Texas authorities\u00a0not to release an illegal immigrant accused of fatally slitting his wife\u2019s throat with a pocketknife in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Mendez-Marin, a 24-year-old\u00a0illegal immigrant\u00a0from Mexico, was arrested March 18 by the Carrolton Police Department and is charged with felony homicide after he allegedly killed his wife, 20-year-old Karla Rangel, during a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had been married for less than a month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/man-charged-wifes-murder-less-than-month-after-marriage-affidavit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX 4 Dallas<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0police arrived at the scene, Mendez-Marin had blood on his clothes and a bloody pocketknife on him, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Mendez-Marin is accused of brutally killing his wife Karla Rangel in Dallas, Texas. Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Rangel and Mendez-Marin were married for one month. Telemundo 39\/Handout<\/p>\n<p>Body camera footage shows Mendez-Marin telling officers, \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything bad\u201d and \u201cI was obligated to do it\u201d in Spanish, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis depraved animal murdered\u00a0his own wife just one month after they were married by brutally slitting her throat with a pocketknife,\u201d\u00a0DHS Acting Assistant Secretary\u00a0Lauren Bis wrote in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis illegal alien should have never been allowed into our country to commit this heinous murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendez-Marin is being held in the\u00a0Dallas County Jail. Felix Mizioznikov \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE requested authorities\u00a0in Dallas to not release this cold-blooded killer onto the streets,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, Dallas politicians cooperate with ICE, so together we can ensure this murderer is NEVER loose in American communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendez-Marin is currently in Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office custody and being held in the\u00a0Dallas County Jail, according to DHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently lodged a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer pleading with\u00a0Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1829,7770,14551,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-234654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-ice","9":"tag-illegal-immigrants","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}