Years of nonenforcement of the law led to Dallas beheading

Washington Examiner ^ | September 17, 2025 12:50 pm | Byron York

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is still more to learn about the horrific case of Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, the illegal immigrant accused of beheading a hotel manager in Dallas. You can read the terrible details of what happened here. And now, a bit more about the suspect’s history, collected from knowledgeable sources:

Cobos-Martinez came to the United States from Cuba. Since the 1959 revolution, the U.S. has had special immigration programs that apply specifically to Cubans. One allows a Cuban national to come to the U.S., be “paroled” into the country — that is, given permission to stay here legally — and have one year in which to apply for permanent lawful status. 

Cobos-Martinez was paroled into the U.S. on April 2, 2016. But he did not apply for permanent residency in the following year. One reason he might not have done so is that in February 2017, less than a year after his arrival, police say Cobos-Martinez stole a car in Miami-Dade County, Florida, resulting in his being charged with felony grand theft auto. 

Now, at that point, given that Cobos-Martinez was still in the country lawfully on parole, that the parole was granted entirely at the discretion of the U.S. government, and that he was charged with felony grand theft auto, one might expect the government to revoke the parole and send Cobos-Martinez back to Cuba. That did not happen. Instead, Cobos-Martinez stayed in the U.S. His one-year period passed on April 2, 2017, and after that, he was in the U.S. illegally.

From there, Cobos-Martinez was off to the races, criminally speaking. According to Dallas television station NBCDFW, “In June 2017, in South Lake Tahoe, California, a police report details a carjacking in which Cobos-Martinez, while naked,...

[rktman]

Oh, not out of love like montel said about the Utah killer?