The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is opening an investigation into the two suspected illegal immigrants accused of killing a bald eagle, a spokesman for the department told the Washington Free Beacon.

The federal government’s announcement follows a week of outrage from residents in Stanton County, Neb., where two Honduran nationals who spoke no English and had no U.S. identification cards fatally shot the nation’s bird on Feb. 28 with the intention of cooking it for dinner. The Stanton County Sheriff’s Department charged the two men with illegal possession of a bald eagle and one with not having a driver’s license. Both those charges are misdemeanors, meaning, per Nebraska state law, the two could not be held in jail before their March 28 trial.

[But apparently, CBP is not interesting in the two for entering the country illegally, — Ed]