Kobach’s politics of tragedy underline our nation’s immigrant crime double standard

By: Rory Bahadur

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 24, 2026

Words: 1,373

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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A man is dead in western Kansas.

Erlin Y. Lagos-Gonzales, a Honduran citizen living in Garden City, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 31 death of Adonis Edgardo Aguilar-Juarez at a livestock facility in Kearny County. A federal immigration judge had issued Lagos-Gonzales a final order of removal in July 2025. He remains presumed innocent unless the state proves the charge.

Those facts are serious enough on their own. Kansas Attorney …

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