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Slain Marine's father challenges calls to abolish ICE as his son's killer faces a third deportation

8/1/2026

Martin Martinez-Ballinas, 38, a Mexican national convicted in connection with the 2017 Maryland hit-and-run death of U.S.

Marine James Ray Walden III, was arrested by ICE on July 22 and now faces deportation for the third time.

The father of the killed Marine is publicly pushing back against Democratic calls to abolish ICE, though the case itself reveals a longer chain of enforcement breakdowns that preceded the tragedy.

A decade of arrests before the fatal crash Maryland officials knew Martinez-Ballinas was in the country illegally before the 2017 crash, according to the victim's father, James Ray Walden.