House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mentioned her husband, Paul Pelosi, was launched from the hospital Thursday after his therapy for accidents from a violent assault final week through which he was attacked with a hammer.

Pelosi mentioned, “Paul stays beneath docs’ care as he continues to progress on a protracted restoration course of and convalescence. He is now dwelling.”

Law enforcement officers who responded to the break-in early last Friday witnessed Paul Pelosi being struck in the head with the hammer at least once, according to court documents. Officials said the assault was captured on the officers’ body cameras.

Pelosi was taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Speaker Pelosi said her husband was grateful to the 911 operator who directed police to the family residence, emergency responders and the entire hospital staff for “their excellent and compassionate life-saving treatment.”

“The Pelosi household is grateful for the gorgeous outpouring of affection, assist and prayers from world wide,” she said.

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Paul Pelosi’s release from the hospital comes as a federal official says the Canadian man accused of breaking into their home and attacking him should have been flagged by immigration officials and blocked from getting back into the U.S. after overstaying his authorized entry more than two decades ago.

David DePape, 42, legally entered the United States in 2000 and later left the country and returned a few times, including entering in March 2008 at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing, said a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

Most Canadians are not required to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. as tourists and can stay for up to six months. The official said it was unclear why U.S. authorities admitted DePape after he overstayed his entry in 2000.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to questions about DePape’s entry to the United States after he violated immigration law. It acknowledged in a statement that DePape was allowed into San Diego from Tijuana on March 8, 2008, but didn’t address any other entries.

San Francisco police said DePape confronted Paul Pelosi in the family’s Pacific Heights home Oct. 28 and demanded to know where the House Speaker was. DePape pleaded not guilty to state charges on Tuesday and was ordered held without bail. His public defender, Adam Lipson, said he looks forward to providing him with a “vigorous legal defense.”

DePape faces state charges of attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse. He also faces federal charges including attempted kidnapping of a U.S. official. His state case will continue Friday, though the defendant will not appear in the courtroom. An arraignment on federal charges has not been scheduled.

In the state court filing, prosecutors detailed the attack in stark terms, saying Paul Pelosi, 82, was knocked unconscious by the hammer attack and woke up in a pool of his own blood.

DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, but relocated to California to be with a girlfriend, stepfather Gene DePape told The Associated Press last week. He has three children with two women, he said. Gene DePape said the suspect had lived with him in Canada until he was 14 and had been a quiet boy.

DePape’s ex-girlfriend, Bay Area nudist activist Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, told the San Francisco Chronicle she met DePape in Hawaii in 2000. The pair lived in Berkeley and had two children during their 15-year relationship.

U.S. officials have long struggled to quantify — let alone track down — people who enter the country legally and overstay visas, believed to be about 40% of the population who are in the country illegally.

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There have been 684,499 visa overstays from October 2019 by means of September 2020 amongst guests who arrived by aircraft or ship — greater than the inhabitants of Vermont or Wyoming – based on the Department of Homeland Security’s newest annual report. The complete variety of overstays is far bigger however has not been quantified as a result of it doesn’t embody how many individuals arrive by land, the first method for Canadians and Mexicans to enter the United States.

The value and technological hurdles to develop a checkout system at congested land crossings with Canada and Mexico are huge. In the 12-month interval by means of September 2020, greater than 52,000 Canadians who got here to the U.S. by air or sea had overstayed their legally licensed entry.

Despite the challenges, the U.S. official mentioned DePape’s overstay ought to have been famous in immigration data, which, in principle, ought to have prevented authorities from admitting him.