Rolbert Joachin entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, was ordered removed, and was handed protected status anyway — then he allegedly beat a naturalized American mother to death with a hammer.
Rolbert Joachin entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, was ordered removed by a federal judge, and was handed protected status anyway — then he allegedly beat a naturalized American mother to death with a hammer outside a Fort Myers gas station.
On April 3, 2026, Fort Myers Police responded to a horrific scene at a local gas station. Surveillance footage captured 40-year-old Rolbert Joachin — a Haitian national — smashing the windshield of a customer’s car before approaching 51-year-old Nilufar Yasmin and repeatedly striking her in the head with a hammer. Yasmin, a mother of two who had legally earned her U.S. citizenship six years prior, was killed. Joachin was located hours later on Mango Street in Fort Myers, arrested with assistance from ICE after a massive manhunt that put, according to Fort Myers Police Chief Jason Fields, “a cop on every single block.”
WHAT HAPPENED
Rolbert Joachin first entered the United States illegally via a maritime smuggling operation near Key West in August 2022. He was apprehended by Border Patrol and brought before an immigration judge — who issued a final order of removal in September 2022. Despite that court order, the Biden administration released him into the interior of the country. In 2023, he was granted Temporary Protected Status. His TPS technically expired in 2024, but remained in effect while a renewal application was pending. The Trump administration revoked those protections only after the murder.
The victim, Nilufar Yasmin, 51, was a Bangladeshi-American who had earned her citizenship the legal way. She was a mother of two, working a shift at the gas station when Joachin allegedly attacked. Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael McComas described the surveillance footage as “a video you can never unwatch,” and noted that Yasmin had “got her citizenship the right way.” That citizenship — earned through years of legal process — did not protect her from a man the federal government had already ordered out of the country.
Investigators also confirmed that Joachin had been at the same gas station the day before the attack, attempting to withdraw money from the ATM — and that local police had prior contacts with him in late March, details that remain under investigation. Fort Myers Police Chief Jason Fields credited rapid inter-agency coordination for the arrest, stating his department was “not going home” until Joachin was in custody. ICE has now lodged a detainer, confirming Joachin will be deported regardless of the outcome of his criminal trial. He is currently held without bond at Lee County Jail on charges of homicide and property damage.
Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis released a blunt statement: Joachin was released into the country by the Biden administration — and then gifted protected status on top of it. Their reckless immigration policies, she stated directly, cost this woman her life.
WHY THIS MATTERS — WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU
A federal immigration judge ordered this man removed in 2022. That order was real. It was legal. It was binding. The Biden administration looked at that order and released him anyway — then handed him a shield in the form of Temporary Protected Status. NILUFAR YASMIN IS DEAD BECAUSE CAREER POLITICIANS DECIDED OPEN BORDERS MATTERED MORE THAN AMERICAN LIVES. That is not spin. That is the documented, court-ordered, administration-approved chain of events that ended with a mother beaten to death in a gas station parking lot.
The mainstream media will cover this story for one news cycle, quietly note that Joachin is “presumed innocent,” and pivot to the next distraction. They will not ask why the Biden administration overrode a judge’s removal order. They will not ask how many others like Joachin were granted TPS after being ordered deported. They will not say Nilufar Yasmin’s name next week. We will. Because these are the same politicians and pundits who called border enforcement “racist” while this man walked free in Fort Myers for three years.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
President Trump called this exactly what it is — a direct result of the “targeted and systemic” release of illegal immigrants under the prior administration. Senator Tommy Tuberville stated plainly that Joachin should never have been in the country in the first place. Senator Ashley Moody called it “absolutely unconscionable” that Democrats actively worked to shield him from deportation. While you were paying your taxes and following the rules, the Biden administration was filing paperwork to keep a man with a federal removal order in your neighborhood. Nilufar Yasmin followed every rule this country asked of her. She became a citizen. She worked. She raised her children. She is gone because the rule of law was selectively applied — and she paid the price.
OUR TAKE
ICE stepped up. Fort Myers Police stepped up. They mobilized overnight, put officers on every block, and brought this killer in. That is what border enforcement actually looks like when the federal government gets out of the way and lets law enforcement do its job. The detainer is lodged. Joachin will be deported. But Nilufar Yasmin cannot be brought back. Her children still have to live with what open-border politics cost them. We are not letting this story fade. Every American who believes in the rule of law owes it to her memory to say her name, share her story, and hold every politician who enabled this accountable at the ballot box.
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