NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

The crash also injured two others, including an 8-year-old girl

WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking officials in Maryland to not release an illegal alien who has been charged in a fatal crash that killed a woman and her daughter.

According to local reporting, the crash occurred on August 29 on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland. A suspected drunk driver, traveling the wrong way, crashed head-on into a vehicle with four occupants inside. Two of the occupants, 46-year-old Musammat Shamima ...