Jaime Santiago Corona

A 33-year-old illegal alien who has already been deported from the United States three times is behind bars after he ran a stop sign at high speed and killed 6-year-old Calli Toller in a violent crash.

According to North Carolina State Highway Patrol troopers and court documents, Jaime Santiago Corona of Ayden was driving a 2023 Dodge Ram pickup truck south on Warren Jones Road on Friday, July 3, when he blew through the stop sign at the intersection with County Home Road.

His truck slammed into a westbound SUV driven by 35-year-old Kelli Toller, who had her two young children inside, WNCT reported.

Little Calli Toller was killed at the scene. Her mother and 4-year-old brother were both seriously injured and rushed to ECU Health Medical Center.

Santiago, who lives in Ayden, was arrested later that Friday afternoon by Highway Patrol troopers. He faces charges including misdemeanor death by vehicle, failure to stop at a stop sign, careless and reckless driving, and driving while license revoked. Court records note he has no valid operator’s license.

Here’s the part that should make every American furious: Santiago is a known flight risk who has already been deported three separate times. Documents state it could not even be determined if he is a U.S. citizen. A magistrate ordered him held in the Pitt County Detention Center on a $100,000+ secured bond precisely because of his immigration history and flight risk.

This is the deadly result of years of catch-and-release, failed removals, and a system that treated deportation orders like suggestions.

The Gateway Pundit has documented this deadly pattern for years.

Just last month we reported on a previously deported illegal alien charged with triple murder in California after stabbing a young mother, her grandmother, and a two-week-old baby to death. That suspect had also been deported multiple times and was repeatedly released by authorities.

In 2024 we covered the case of an illegal alien deported four times who was charged with killing a mother and son in Colorado.

And in August 2024 we exposed how Democrat prosecutors in one jurisdiction charged a 16-times deported illegal alien with only misdemeanor traffic violations after he killed a 64-year-old American — far more lenient treatment than American citizens receive in similar cases.

Pitt County itself has seen this before. In February The Gateway Pundit reported on ICE lodging detainers against two criminal illegal aliens accused of a savage home invasion in the county that involved beating, sodomizing, and ripping the fingernails off their victim.

Now, once again, ICE is stepping in with a detainer after a repeat deportee killed a little American girl.

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