Illegal Alien Attacks Rare Bird, Gets Deported

Justice comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it's white and has feathers.

Case in point: In Florida, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala chucked a rock at an endangered Great White Heron, fracturing the bird's wing. Now he's chucking rocks at birds back in Guatemala, courtesy of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement's travel agency, and the bird, happily, has made a full recovery.

He was probably going to eat it.

NEW: An illegal alien fisherman charged with throwing a rock at a federally endangered great white heron in Florida, leaving it injured with a broken wing, has been deported back to Guatemala.https://t.co/cQo69CIaK6
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 24, 2025

Import the third world, and you can expect third-world behavior. A local Florida news site has more details:

After months of recovery from surgery, a great white heron that witnesses reported suffered a broken wing during a dispute with a fisherman was free on Thursday in Key Biscayne.
Witnesses reported Edgard Valenzuela was fishing when he threw a large rock at the wading bird on Jan. 20, at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Amanda Burke, of The Pelican Harbor Seabird Station near North Bay Village, responded to the state park and found the federally protected bird crouched in the grass, and bleeding from the right wing.
Burke reported that an X-ray later showed the bird’s wing had been fractured in two places and there was an emergency surgery on Jan. 21.

This is a rare piece of good news; most birds don't do well after a broken wing. Birds, even large ones, are surprisingly fragile. Their bones are hollow and stiff. They break easily and don't often heal well enough for the bird to return to the air. This one did, though, and has been returned to its natural habitat.

So, we might note, is its attacker.

FWC officers arrested Valenzuela, 34, on Feb. 7, and prosecutors filed a felony case against him on Feb. 8 for intentional killing or wounding of any species designated as endangered, threatened, or of special concern.
Valenzuela appeared in court on Feb. 8 and a judge set his bond at $1. Records show his next trial hearing before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques was May 27, but he won’t bet there.
Valenzuela was an undocumented migrant, so federal agents deported him to Guatemala.

Normally, I'd be scandalized over the $1 bond, but Valenzuela is now back in his natural habitat as well, which renders the bond amount moot.

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I've never seen a Great White Heron, but when I was a kid in northeast Iowa, their cousins, the Great Blue Heron, were ubiquitous. We saw and heard them regularly, flying up and down the creek, fishing in the shallows, uttering their characteristic squawking calls. There's a very similar, slightly less colorful version in Japan, and they can be surprisingly tame, often feeding within a few feet of a walking path frequented by folks out for a stroll.

That may be because the Japanese people don't throw rocks at them.

I'm glad that the heron in Florida is OK. I'm glad that Edgard Valenzuela is no longer in the United States. I'd like to think he learned something from this affair, but I'm afraid he probably did not.

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