The Stoughton man accused of stabbing his wife to death while their children were in the home is in the country illegally and faces being taken into custody by ICE officials if he is ever bailed or released.

Ilton Rodrigues, 48, was arraigned on Monday in the Boston Medical Center intensive care unit where officials said he is recovering from self-inflicted injuries. He pleaded not guilty to murder.

Judge Daniel J. O’Malley ordered Rodrigues held without bail.

Rodrigues is due back in court June 11 for a probable cause indictment hearing. Immigration officials told the Herald they are keeping an eye on the case.

“ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations lodged an immigration detainer with the Norfolk County House of Corrections on Ilton Furtado Rodrigues, a citizen of Brazil charged with murder. ICE will seek his removal pending the outcome of the criminal charges,” said John Mohan, spokesman for the Boston office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rodrigues was arrested Friday night after his sister-in-law called police saying she received a call that Rodrigues left his brother a voicemail saying he was going to kill his wife, then himself, prosecutors said.

When deputies arrived at the Bennett Drive residence at 11:40 p.m., they found Rodrigues and his wife, 43-year-old Telma Bras, laying in a pool of blood, prosecutors said. Bras was dead and Rodrigues had stabbed himself in a suicide attempt, both stabbed in the chest, prosecutors said. A knife was still protruding from his body, a prosecutor added.

The couple’s two children, a 7-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter, were home at the time, Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey told the Herald on Saturday.

“Both children were present at the home at the time of the incident,” said Morrissey. “This is really the most tragic of results that you can expect in those types of situations in which we are most sorry for, especially when there are young children involved.”

Stoughton police Chief Donna McNamara said it’s difficult to imagine what the children “had to go through.”

Morrissey said the eldest child heard the disturbance and notified a relative, who called Stoughton police.

The killing is being investigated by Stoughton police, Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Norfolk DA’s Office and other troopers.