Illegal migrant executed California waitress after Biden admin freed him under soft border law

An illegal migrant captured and later released under the Biden Administration stalked a Sacramento woman for months before executing her in broad daylight after she filed a restraining order against him.

Border Patrol agents arrested Indian national Rohit Rohit, 22, as he attempted to cross into the US over the Arizona border in August 2023.

But under the Biden administration‘s soft ”order of recognizance” border laws, Rohit was released just a month later.

The Department of Homeland Security never heard from Rohit again.

But in 2025, began stalking and terrorizing beautiful IHOP waitress Shalini Thakur, 38, whom he met through Door Dash pickups made at her workplace.

Thakur had a restraining order placed on Rohit as his abuse and harassment worsened.

Rohit violated that order in July by visiting Shakur’s home again, just weeks before Tuesday’s horrific killing outside a café that left her shattered family to blame the system.

“I am alone in this world,” Sudesh Kumari told reporters after her daughter’s death.

“Restraining order after restraining order … police did not protect my daughter.”

Sherrif’s deputies said they’d been in contact with Shakur about Rohit’s harassment for months before her death, imploring her to get the restraining order she finally filed in July.

But federal immigration authorities now say he never should’ve been here at all.

 “This tragedy would have been completely avoided if it weren’t for the Biden administration releasing this killer into our country,” a DHS spokesperson said.

“Sanctuary politicians must put an end to reckless policies that play Russian roulette with American lives.”  Federal official said it’s unclear how Rohit came to be in Mexico, or how he was caught attempting to cross into the US.

“But he was apprehended in an arid, remote area near Yuma and booked into custody at the ICE staging facility in Florence, Arizona.

Rohit was held in Florence before being moved to the agency’s processing center in Folkston, Georgia, in a rural area near the Florida border that that holds about 3,000 adult male non-citizens who are in immigration proceedings or awaiting deportation.

Federal authorities released Rohit in September 2023 for no apparent reason, in a tactic immigration officials refer to as “catch and release.”

He then made his way to California, where later he met, stalked and killed Thakur.

Former DHS spokeswoman Katie Zacharia said the agency made a mistake when it released Rohit instead of returning him to his home county.

“It is very typical with the Biden ‘catch and release,’” said Zacharia, “These types of policies kill American citizens or put American citizens’ lives at risk in one way or another,” she added.

“These are the types of individuals that ICE and the ERO should be removing and sending back to their home countries, and yet you get so much pushback from governors like Gavin Newsom,” she added.

California’s sanctuary state laws prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts, something that could have led to Rohit being detained or deported after he was reported to police at least twice before he killed Thakur.

After Rohit chased and gunned Thakur down in front of a Panera Bread, he followed her as she stumbled into a parking lot. As she lay on the ground, he shot her again in the head at close range.   

He then sped off, but a witness took a photo of his car and sent it to police, who spotted and stopped him seven minutes later on eastbound on Highway 50, about two miles away. Rohit engaged deputies in a standoff before shooting and killing himself in the vehicle.

Sacramento Sherriff Jim Cooper said only a quick response from law enforcement prevented Rohit from inflicting more carnage.

“I believe that individual was headed somewhere else to do someone else harm,” said Cooper.

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