WASHINGTON — Federal immigration officers on Friday detailed the felony and immigration historical past of a Haitian nationwide accused of a “savage” hammer homicide at a Florida fuel station, a case the Trump administration is utilizing to spotlight its efforts to terminate Non permanent Protected Standing, or TPS for lots of of 1000’s of immigrants.
Robert Joachin, 40, is charged with murder within the April 3 dying of Nilufa Easmin, 51, at a Chevron station in Fort Myers. Surveillance footage, which has been broadly shared on social media and by President Donald Trump, reveals the suspect placing Easmin a number of occasions within the head with a hammer.
Appearing Subject Workplace Director for ICE Enforcement and Removing Operations Miami Kelly Walker confirmed that Joachin entered the U.S. illegally close to Key West in August 2022. Regardless of receiving a remaining order of elimination from an immigration choose in September 2022, Walker stated Joachin was launched below the Biden administration’s insurance policies and later granted TPS.
“The prior administration allowed him to be launched into the US, and subsequently granted him momentary protected standing, giving him a authorized safeguard to stay in our nation,” Walker stated.
Walker introduced that the Trump administration stripped Joachin of these protections this week. This transfer follows the administration’s June 2025 announcement terminating TPS for Haiti, a choice at the moment being litigated in federal courts.
Trump highlighted the “horrific” surveillance tape on Reality Social on Thursday, blaming “Democrat management” for permitting “unvetted” people into the nation.
“This case… highlights the President’s goal to revive regulation and order to our nation,” Walker stated, noting that the administration has requested the Supreme Courtroom to clear the best way to finish TPS for greater than 350,000 Haitian immigrants.
Florida regulation enforcement officers emphasised the energy of local-federal partnerships within the state, noting that Florida leads the nation in 287(g) agreements, which permit native police to help in immigration enforcement.
The sufferer, Nilufa Easmin, was a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Bangladesh six years in the past. Appearing Particular Agent in Cost of HSI Micah McCombs described her as a girl who “got here right here the precise approach” and labored tirelessly to help her household.
“This tragic occasion to this United States citizen who got here right here the precise approach six years in the past is Bangladeshi nationwide who acquired her citizenship the precise approach. It’s mindless. It’s a video you possibly can by no means un-watch. It mustn’t occur on this nation,” McCombs stated.
📺Be part of us for a reside press convention concerning Rolbert Joachin — the Haitian unlawful alien going through homicide costs for the brutal fuel station assault that left a Florida mom lifeless. ➡️https://t.co/RGey24k9e2
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) April 10, 2026
The Bangladesh Affiliation of Southwest Florida has launched a GoFundMe marketing campaign to help Easmin’s two younger daughters. As of Friday, the fundraiser had raised greater than $13,000 towards a $30,000 objective.
“Easmin was a loyal mom who labored tirelessly to supply for her two younger daughters,” the affiliation wrote. “The lack of Easmin has created an unimaginable void […] the funds raised will go straight towards their primary wants.”
Joachin stays within the Lee County Jail. ICE has issued a detainer to make sure he’s taken into federal custody for deportation following the conclusion of his felony trial.
