The reason people go bonkers over Illegal immigration is because some people were raised to know the difference between right and wrong. You disobey the law, you get punished…no conversation, no argment , no nothing.
Geralodoand all the other hispanic media,(Chavez,Navarette et a) are beginning to look like their allegiance is more to La Raza than the US of A!!
There were six deaths due to illegal aliens in the last week alone…That is shameful, and if it were my relative killed I would be seated in front of the White House demanding that useless El presidente finally do the right thing and SECURE the friggin border!! He should be impeached !!!

Mellen on April 6, 2007 at 11:19 AM

Those excusing this as a one shot deal ….I beg to differ!
Just a few “days” in George Bush,John McCain and and Ted Kennedys America!!!

Illegal?…………. YOU bet cha!!!!

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Suspect in crash that killed 2 had alcohol-related convictions [4/3/07]
Below, Tessa Tranchant, 16, left, and Allison Kunhardt, 17, were killed late Friday, evidently by a drunk-driving illegal alien.
According to grieving father Ray Tranchant, his daughter Tessa and her best friend Allison Kunhardt, “were just sitting at the light, strapped in their seat belts. They were just doing what they were supposed to be doing.”
But obeying the law is not enough protection any more, since drunk-driving illegal aliens are making the roads a far more hazardous place. The accused, illegal alien Alfredo Ramos, was apparently so blotto that he doesn’t even remember the accident.

Afterward, [Ramos] told him he had no memory of the crash. He learned from authorities that he had killed two people, his brother said.
Ramos, who was born in Mexico of Guatemalan parents, has been in the United States for about seven years.
Ramos had a prior DUI conviction in Chesapeake this year, so if Rep. Sue Myrick’s Scott Gardner Act had been law, he would have been immediately deported for being a drunk-driving illegal alien. The legislation, originally written in 2005, has been resubmitted in this Congress as HR 1355.
See http://www.VDARE.com version here.
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Spring Break Turns Deadly Because of Illegal Alien

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According to his parents, college student Andrew Stear was excited about spring break in Florida with about 20 friends who caravanned from Missouri. He was studying business at St. Charles County Community College.

But the fun ended when Andrew was struck down crossing the street by an illegal alien driving a stolen van. The driver, Hugo Rodriguez Colindrez, tried to escape the crime scene but was forced off the road by another motorist who witnessed the incident.

Colindrez reportedly worked in construction on a condo project on Panama City Beach. Police believe he was driving drunk, but the blood tests are not yet available.

Andrew was only 21, but had made a big impression on those who knew him.

Co-workers remembered him as energetic, fun-loving and a good friend.

“He’s the type of person who would do anything for anyone without being asked,” said Dave Hinman, who manages an O’Fallon QuikTrip and owns a sporting goods store where Stear worked.

Hinman said Stear’s caring personality extended outside the workplace too. He volunteered at No Hunger Holiday, an annual program to provide food to needy residents at Thanksgiving.
[Student on vacation killed in hit-and-run, St. Louis Post Dispatch 3/30/07]

One tiny bit of hope to bring this unnecessary road carnage to an end is the Scott Gardner Act, which has been reintroduced as HR 1355. The bill would require rapid deportation of any illegal immigrant convicted of drunk driving.

Suspect in fatal crash had 3 DWI convictions
Thursday, March 29 @ 13:22:59 UTC by lsmith1338 (731 reads)

Before being charged with killing a Porter woman and her pregnant daughter in a crash Sunday, Ignacio Gomez-Gutierrez had been convicted three times for drunken driving in Harris County, court records show.

His third DWI arrest, which would normally become a felony, was reduced to a misdemeanor, a move the mayor’s crime victims advocate calls a “pivotal moment” that ultimately led to the deaths of Maria Ortiz, 49, and her 18-year-old daughter, Vanessa, who was five months pregnant.

Records also show Gomez-Gutierrez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was never deported after serving his time in jail in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

The victims’ family members and others say Gomez-Gutierrez should never have been back on the road in the first place.

Immigration attorneys advising clients to avoid driving
Thursday, March 29 @

Hispanic DWIs rooted in immigrants’ culture
Lifestyle, isolation figure in driving drunk

Eliseo Hernandez, 54, bathes his son, Diego Hernandez-Morris, 5, every evening at a care center in Greenville. Diego was nearly killed last year in a crash caused by a driver accused of drinking.
Staff Photos by Corey Lowenstein

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Hispanic DWIs rooted in immigrants’ culture

Marti Maguire and Kristin Collins, Staff Writers
When Eliseo Hernandez came to the United States 30 years ago, he thought he drove better after a few beers. Driving drunk had been normal back in Mexico, he said. But Hernandez, 54, learned of its perils firsthand. He quit the practice after falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a tree 18 years ago.
Then, last year, a young Hispanic man who authorities say was drunk nearly killed Hernandez’s only son, Diego, in a crash on a rural Johnston County road. Eliseo Hernandez’s daughter, who was nine months pregnant, lost her unborn child in the accident.

Hernandez has spent the past year following Diego through four hospitals and 14 brain surgeries. Diego only recently began to smile again and might never walk.

Hernandez said he hopes his painful journey will teach his friends and family a lesson. Car accidents are the top killer of Hispanics in North Carolina, and the disproportionate number of alcohol-related arrests and wrecks are an embarrassment to a minority already beleaguered by hard feelings over illegal immigration.

“It makes the Mexicans look bad, very bad,” Hernandez said. “The American people say ‘Oh, it’s just another Hispanic, the same as the others.’ ”

In 2005, there were 37 alcohol-related crashes caused by Hispanic drivers for every 10,000 Hispanics in the state, according to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. That is more than three times the rate of alcohol-related crashes among non-Hispanics.

Carnage continues
Last month, a Johnston County father and son died in a fiery crash authorities say was caused by Luciano Tellez, 31, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Dwane Braswell, 35, and his son Jerry, 9, were riding in a tractor-trailer cab on N.C. 210 in the Cleveland community of Johnston County when Tellez struck the tractor and rolled it into a ditch, where it caught fire.

Empty beer cans were found in Tellez’ car, but authorities say it is impossible to know whether he was drunk.

It was the latest in a string of such accidents caused by Hispanic men. In February in Salisbury, a woman who was eight months pregnant and her unborn child were killed. In October, it was two college students and a high school boy. In January 2006, a man from El Salvador killed a Hillsborough woman in a head-on crash and fled, leaving an injured passenger in his own car.

Researchers say drunken driving among Hispanics is at least partially explained by demographics. As in many places where immigration is fairly recent, the Hispanic population in North Carolina is young and dominated by men — both factors that make them statistically more likely to drive drunk.

Men in their 20s and 30s made up more than half the people charged with DWI statewide in the year ending last July. Nearly 40 percent of North Carolina Hispanics were 21- to 39-year-old men in 2005, according to census estimates. This same age range accounted for only 18 percent of blacks and 16 percent of whites.

taff writer Marti Maguire can be reached at 829-4841 or mmaguire@newsobserver.com.
Database manager David Raynor contributed to this report.

Illegal Immigrant In Custody After Weekend Accident
KOTV – 3/26/2007 5:08 PM – Updated 3/27/2007 1:12 PM
A 2-year-old is not expected to live after Tulsa Police say a drunk driver ran a red light and slammed into the SUV he was riding in. The News On 6’s Heather Lewin reports investigators are calling the accident another example of what they’re seeing all too often on Tulsa streets, drunk drivers, with no license or insurance that are in this country illegally.

“We see that on a routine basis,” said Tulsa Police Sergeant Rick Bondy.

Tulsa Police arrested 34-year-old Jose Juan Lopez at the scene Saturday. Officers say Lopez ran a red light at 36th Street North and Lewis Avenue and crashed his Ford Explorer into a Chevy Suburban that was driving through the intersection.

The Tulsa County jail says Jose Lopez was able to bond out of jail over the weekend.

Monday, federal authorities announced that they were looking for Lopez. That evening, Lopez was picked up at an Owasso business and is now being held by immigration officials in Oklahoma City.

“Because they’re unlicensed and uninsured, that’s a concern to anyone in a collision with them,” said Bondy.

Sergeant Bondy says people in the country illegally usually don’t have the legal paperwork to drive. It’s a problem for local police because TPD supervisors say officers are caught between city jurisdiction and federal law. Officers can arrest someone suspected of a crime, and if they think the person is here illegally they call immigration, but unless the charges are very serious, or the government requests a hold on the person, the suspect can post bond and be released, which is what Lopez did.

“And for all practical purposes, they’re treated like anybody else,” Bondy said.

Meanwhile, Tulsa Police say it wasn’t just the actions of the illegal driver that may cost the boy his life. The 2-year-old was not strapped into a car seat or safety belt, said officers. In fact, police say no one in the car that was hit was wearing a seatbelt.

“Why, I mean it takes two seconds to buckle somebody in or put them in a car seat, and you don’t have to go through intensive care or critical injuries,” Bondy said.

‘Christmas Story’ Director Dies in Crash
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES – Film director Robert Clark, best known for the beloved holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” was killed with his son Wednesday in a car wreck, the filmmaker’s assistant and police said.

Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark’s personal assistant.

The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PST, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.

The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, remained hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter after being treated, Vernon said. A female passenger in his car also was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, police said.

Just a few days in the Safe, secure world created by George Bush and Ted Kennedy!!!

Mellen on April 6, 2007 at 11:26 AM