Rolbert Joachin entered the United States illegally in August 2022. By January of this year, Fort Myers police say, he had strangled 28-year-old Julia Curvo to death. By April, he had beaten a Bangladeshi immigrant named Nilufa Easmin to death with a hammer at a gas station — an attack so brutal it went viral.

Two women. Two separate murders. Months apart. Same man who should never have been here.

The Biden administration didn't just fail to deport Joachin after he crossed illegally — they actively gave him Temporary Protected Status. Lauren Bis, Acting Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, put the timeline in terms that are hard to misread: "Not only did the Biden administration release him into the country, but they then gave him Temporary Protected Status. Their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life."

Women. Plural. We're past the singular now.

The timeline on the Curvo murder is its own indictment. Fort Myers police interviewed Joachin on February 5 in connection with Curvo's death. On February 27, Crime Stoppers received a tip. By March, a tipster came forward saying Joachin had confessed to the killing. Police interviewed him again on March 26 and requested an ICE hold.

Then came April. While law enforcement was still working the Curvo case, Joachin killed Nilufa Easmin with a hammer in broad daylight at a Fort Myers gas station. That's the murder that went viral. That's the one that put his face on every screen in the country. The first murder — Julia Curvo, strangled in her home on Hough Street — didn't make national news until investigators connected the two.

Attorney Michael Raheb, who reviewed the court documents, offered a clinical explanation for why Joachin wasn't in custody between murders: "Probably during their investigation at that time, they didn't have enough to arrest him." That may be legally accurate. It is not comforting to Julia Curvo's family, who told WINK News that her mother "had already attempted to contact her multiple times, and was getting no response at all" before the body was found.

The standard defense of open-border policy is that most immigrants don't commit violent crimes. Fine. Most people who run red lights don't kill anyone either. We still have traffic lights. The entire point of immigration enforcement is that you screen before entry so you don't have to investigate murders after. Joachin entered illegally. He was identified. He was given legal status anyway. And two women in Lee County, Florida are dead.

There's a version of this story where Joachin is stopped at the border in August 2022. Where Julia Curvo turns 29. Where Nilufa Easmin finishes her shift and goes home.

That version required one thing: a government that enforced the law it already had on the books.