Numerous investigations in Michigan this year illustrate the cost of the Biden-Harris open border policies, as well as the lives that may have been saved through President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations.

The most recent came in Rochester Hills, where Teri Singleton and family mourns the loss of beloved 72-year-old Detroit-area pastor Stephen Singleton.

Singleton was struck and killed by a 28-year-old illegal immigrant motorist from Columbia just a few weeks ago as he crossed Rochester Road during his morning walk. While the family is now left struggling to keep Teri Singleton from losing her home, the driver involved remains free while awaiting an immigration hearing some time in the future.

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“I had to sit and watch my husband of 53 years die in front of me and then to know that the person who did this is walking around is very difficult to deal with,” Teri Singleton told WJBK.

The crash in early November followed several others involving illegal immigrants that remain unresolved.

This spring, Grand Rapids Police charged Dominican illegal immigrant Louis Angel Otanez-Castello with multiple felonies in a hit-and-run that claimed the life of 53-year-old Robert Delgado, who was sent 115 feet to his death in the 3:15 a.m. crash.

Police allege Otanez-Castello was driving “at a high rate of speed” in a 30 mph zone of South Division Avenue after a night drinking at Le Petit Chateau sports bar when video shows Delgado attempted unsuccessfully to avoid the vehicle.

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“At no point did the driver attempt to stop and render aid or identify himself,” according to court records cited by WOOD.

Police later recovered the vehicle involved, along with a deportation order for Otanez-Castello inside. Authorities believe he likely fled the state after the collision, leaving the victim’s family to ponder whether justice will be served.

The Grand Rapids hit-and-run came just a month before Shelby Township police allege 33-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Hernandez was driving a box truck on M-59 that “rear ended a Buick Verano which triggered a chain reaction involving two other vehicles.”

Nancy Richmond, 88, and her daughter Crystal Brunn, 63, were in the Buick and killed in the crash that victims said left two cars “cut in half.” Medina-Hernandez now faces a Dec. 10 jury trial, and plans to fight the charges, the Macomb Daily reports.

Others have admitted to their wrongdoing.

Previously deported Mexican national Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 26, was sentenced earlier this month to 39 years in prison for the gruesome murder of Grand Rapids’ Ruby Garcia, 25.

Ortiz-Vite, who was deported by the Trump administration in 2020, shot and killed Garcia with an illegally purchased handgun before dumping her body alongside US-131 and fleeing in Garcia’s vehicle in March.

“I am a proud Mexican national whose actions have brought great shame and dishonor to our people,” he said at his sentencing, according to The Detroit News.

Kent County Circuit Court Judge Mark Rusock described the murder as “a cold-blooded, intentional killing.”

“There are just no reasons for this,” he said. “No justification. No excuse whatsoever.”

That murder followed another in Grand Rapids in May 2023 involving illegal immigrant Luis Bernal-Sosa, who gunned down the mother of his young child, 22-year-old Leah Gomez, while she was sitting in her car with the child in the back seat. Bernal-Sosa, also a Mexican national, was sentenced to life in prison with no option for parole in April.

Plenty of others have been convicted or face charges for sex crimes.

In July, previously deported illegal immigrant Severiano Marcos Maximo, 42, was deported again after pleading guilty to three felony charges for attempted criminal sexual conduct involving underage children.

The Mexican national, who was busted by a child predator task force in 2023, had crossed illegally into the U.S. on at least two separate occasions.

It was a similar situation for previously deported illegal immigrant Miguel Angel Aparicio-Navas, 36, who faces felony charges for multiple sexual assaults in Ann Arbor in recent years.

There’s also 25-year-old Miguel Hernandez-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who is expected to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting girls under the age of 13 after breaking into a mobile home in Sturgis in March.

Michigan sheriffs detailed many other egregious crimes committed by illegal immigrants across the state in a conference call ahead of the election to highlight how Trump’s border policies could change the dynamic.

Those crimes included rape of a 16-year-old, a traffic accident that put a 20-year-old pregnant woman undergoing chemotherapy in the hospital, massive increases in fentanyl trafficking, smash and grabs, home burglaries, and others.

“We know what we had with President Trump,” Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy said. “We know what we’ve had the last three and a half years.”

A recent poll of 1,276 likely voters from Rasmussen found 64% of Americans approve of Trump’s plan for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, Breitbart reports.

Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement released in September shows there’s currently more than 662,000 illegal immigrants on the agency’s docket who have criminal convictions or charges pending.

Those criminals, the vast majority free to roam the U.S., include 13,099 convicted murderers, 15,811 convicted of sexual assaults, 162,231 convicted of assault, 56,533 with dangerous drug convictions, 5,797 convicted of fraud, 18,234 convicted of larceny, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 13,423 with weapons convictions 10,031 convicted of robbery, 9,461 with non-assaultive sexual convictions, 2,521 kidnappers, and 217 convicted of extortion.

Trump vowed during his campaign to “dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil,” while his pick to lead ICE, former border agent Tom Homan, said the “well-targeted, planned” deportations will focus on “public safety threats and national security threats first,” NPR reports.

“You better start packing now,” Homan warned at the Republican National Convention. “’Cause you’re going home.”