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HOUSTON – A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered an end to an Obama-era program that prevented the deportations of some immigrants brought into the United States as children, putting new pressure for action on President Joe Biden and Democrats who now control Congress.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of Texas and eight other conservative states that had sued to halt the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides limited protections to about 650,000 people. People who are already enrolled won t lose protections, but Hanen is barring the processing of new applications.
Hanen s ruling is the second by a federal judge in Texas stopping Biden s immigration plans, after a court barred enforcement of Biden s 100-day stay on most deportations.
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image captionA Los Angeles judge says death and destruction followed Michael Gargiulo
A convicted murderer nicknamed the Hollywood Ripper has been sentenced to death for killing two women in the 2000s.
Relatives of his victims wept as a judge gave Michael Gargiulo the sentence in Los Angeles on Friday.
Ashley Ellerin, 22, and Maria Bruno, 32, were both stabbed to death in their California homes.
Gargiulo was caught after another potential victim, Michelle Murphy, then 26, managed to fight him off.
He fled the scene, but left some blood behind - enabling police to track him down.
At Friday s sentencing, Ms Murphy broke down, telling the court how spending the night alone creates a world of fear in me more than a decade later.
Updated: 9:24, 17 Jul 2021
A MAN dubbed the Hollywood Ripper was sentenced to death on Friday
for murdering two women, including Ashton Kutcher s then-girlfriend.
Michael Gargiulo s crimes were vicious and frightening, according to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler who sentenced the 45-year-old to death.
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He was found guilty of murdering Ashley Elllerin, Ashton Kutcher s then-girlfriend, in 2001Credit: Rex Features In this case, everywhere that Mr. Gargiulo went, death and destruction followed him, Fidler said, according to New York Daily News.
Gargiulo was convicted in August 2019 for murdering Ashley Ellerin, 22, in 2001 and Maria Bruno, 32, in 2005 - but at his sentencing, he argued he shouldn t have been convicted.
SEVERE WX : Flash Flood Watch View Alerts Hollywood Ripper serial killer sentenced to death for the murders of 2 women and attempted murder of another Hollywood Ripper serial killer sentenced to death for the murders of 2 women and attempted murder of another
Posted: Jul 17, 2021 7:01 AM
Updated: Jul 17, 2021 7:01 AM
Posted By: By Alexandra Meeks and Aya Elamroussi, CNN
The man known as the Hollywood Ripper was sentenced to death on Friday in the murders of two women and the attempted murder of another, a court spokesperson told CNN.
Michael Gargiulo, 45, was found guilty of the charges by a California jury in August 2019.