The Biden-era parole policies that once allowed for early releases are being challenged as President Donald Trump’s administration works to keep a twice-deported illegal immigrant behind bars for a deadly DUI crash in California. The case has become a flashpoint for the Trump team’s renewed focus on immigration enforcement.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in 2022 of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after he crashed into a vehicle carrying 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin. Both teens were killed in the fiery wreck. Though Ortega-Anguiano was sentenced to 10 years, he is now expected to be released early, sparking outrage from the victims’ families and renewed attention from federal authorities.

“President Trump is not going to tolerate illegal immigrant crime,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday on America Reports. “This individual case represents everything that is wrong with our immigration system.”

According to Leavitt, the administration is actively working to prevent Ortega-Anguiano’s early release.

“We will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and ensure that illegal immigrants who not only break our nation’s immigration laws, but then further commit heinous acts of violence against law-abiding American citizens in our country are held to the fullest extent of the law,” she said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has stated the state will honor the ICE detainer issued for Ortega-Anguiano, which means he will be transferred into federal custody before his expected July release.

“The Department of Justice will be seeking a conviction against this man where he will spend time in federal prison for taking the lives of those two young Americans,” Leavitt said.

Tom Homan, Trump’s immigration “border czar,” confirmed coordination is underway with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Leavitt emphasized that Ortega-Anguiano had previously been deported twice before returning to the U.S. and committing the deadly crash.

“This individual was twice deported but was allowed back into our country by the previous administration, took the lives [of] two young Americans and is now barely facing any consequences,” she told America Reports hosts Sandra Smith and John Roberts. “We will not tolerate it, we will not stand for that.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi also weighed in on social media, writing: “This is absolutely unconscionable. What about justice for these teens? What about the rights of their parents? @TheJusticeDept will work with ICE to make sure this illegal alien receives full punishment for his crimes.”

Leavitt also pointed to a federal court decision blocking the use of the Alien Enemies Act for deporting suspected gang members as a key obstacle to enforcement. She took aim at Democrat lawmakers who have visited deported individuals abroad.

“You have seen Democrat elected officials who swear an oath to stand up for their constituents and law-abiding American citizens, spending more time advocating for illegal alien criminals, gang bangers, and wife beaters in the case of Abrego Garcia from Maryland,” Leavitt said. “It’s despicable, it is disgusting, and we are going to continue to call them out.”

Despite opposition from courts and left-leaning officials, Leavitt said the administration is undeterred.

“The president will not only win in the court of law, but he is winning in the court of public opinion,” she said. “And he is delivering on his promise to secure our homeland.”