Posted on 08/03/2010 6:41:31 AM PDT by La Lydia
An alleged drunk driver involved in a crash Sunday morning that killed a Catholic nun in Prince William County and left two other nuns gravely injured has a record of numerous motor vehicle violations in recent years, including two drunken-driving cases for which he served 20 days in jail, according to authorities and court records. The suspect, Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, 23, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia, was also detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a drunken-driving arrest in 2008. Montano was released on his own recognizance pending a deportation hearing, which has yet to occur because of a backlog, said ICE spokeswoman Cori Bassett.
... Gang members and other violent criminals are often jailed to await deportation hearings, but two drunken-driving arrests "aren't enough to warrant detention," said an immigration official...
Mosier, Lupton and Lange, residents of the Saint Benedict convent in Richmond, were on their way to a five-day religious retreat at the Benedictine Sisters monastery in Prince William. As for the injured nuns' prognosis, Smith said: "We don't know yet. They're in the trauma unit on ventilators, the two of them. They're being kept sedated."...
Police would not disclose Montano's alleged level of intoxication or discuss other evidence....
Montano, hospitalized with injuries authorities said were not life-threatening, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and driving after an alcohol-related license revocation, which carries a potential one-year term, Ebert said....
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Simpson Rodino Bill and amnesty didn’t fix anything. Time to get radical and apply the LAW... This historically has been a nation of LAWS...and not the mob rule.
“... Gang members and other violent criminals are often jailed to await deportation hearings, but two drunken-driving arrests “aren’t enough to warrant detention,” said an immigration official...”
Unless you are a US citizen. Then you get thrown in the klink for about 2 years.
Just doing the drunken driving/homocide Americans won’t do alert.
The federales sue Arizona for enforcing immigration laws and look the other way for “sanctuary cities” who openly flout immigration laws.
I wouldn’t want to see vigilante justice in this country, but the federales are certainly tempting the average American.
My prayers for the two ladies still hanging on to life from what this cretin did to them.
The Nuns were probably on the way to a protest of the AZ SB 1070.
If you read the article, they were on their way to a retreat.
See how easy it is to get a driver's license and phony SS numbers. If we had an AZ type law, they would have checked his immigration status on the first offense. Of course, it may have been problematic if they could not determine whether the SS was legitimate or not.
Simpson-Mazzoli: 3 million illegals assumed, 6 million applied for amnesty, now we have, I believe, around 30 million illegals (and will direct you toward the source of this number if asked). You always get more of what you reward.
The suspect, Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, 23, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia, was also detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a drunken-driving arrest in 2008. Montano was released on his own recognizance pending a deportation hearing, which has yet to occur because of a backlog
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You raise an interesting issue. How did this guy get a drivers license in the first place? I live in Virginia, which has supposedly tightened up its licensing procedures since 9/11. I was born in this country, have a US passport and a notarized copy of my birth certificate. But the last time I renewed my license, it took two trips to the DMV and two trips to the SS administration, and an irate email to Richmond, to get a new drivers license.
Odd how "illegal" and "DUI" (usually, multiple DUIs) go together. But the "illegal" part should be the story's lead.
I hope that this will be the subject of an investigation. I live in VA as well. I will ask Dave Albo, a delegate, about it. Dave was responsibile for drafting much of the legislation on driver’s licenses post 9/11. Phony documents is my guess.
Obama and the other ethnic pandering politicians quite literally have blood on their hands. ICE says two drunk driving convictions are insufficient to detain an illegal before a deportation hearing. Unacceptable. Why do we need a hearing at all? If he is illegal, he is not supposed to be here and should have been removed, even without the DUI convictions.
Incidents like this happen every day now, in almost every state. Yet Obama refuses to secure the border and joins with the corrupt governments south of the border in libelling state officials who seek to protect their people by doing the job he is failing to do.
What is unusual is that this story is reported at all, let alone on the front page.
You are talking about the squish-headed, open-borders, sob-sister Washington Post. For years, back in the 90s, the reporter who covered immigration issues was a guy named Robert Suro who, on every occasion, they reassured us, was “objective” and “unbiased,” when in truth he had an open borders agenda a mile wide. He simply would not have reported this story at all. It would be a non-story. Sunday he turns up in the Post opinion section as as “university professor”, writing a long droning article the point of which was we should grant amnesty to anyone here and open our borders to everyone else. Oh, and how we are foolish and nasty and selfish and racist for not doing so. Complete and utter crap.
MADD should be all over this as it happens day in and day out.
So I wonder why when an illegal alien gets released, even though he has had multiple DUIs, MADD utters nary a peep.
Well, they did a good job of making sure my documents weren’t phony.
I used to be a newspaper reader for a non-profit organization. I’d keep record of local crime reports and police blotters. After several years a creepy pattern emerged. I discovered that every single drunk driving fatality was caused by someone with several DUIs and most had revoked licenses. Alcohol levels were 3x the legal limit usually.
I came to realize that LE is going the wrong direction with all this attention on social drinkers and lowering the legal limit to .08 and other pointless gestures. It is a waste of resources. I never once saw a fatality where the perp was anywhere near the legal limit.
The people who commit these vehicular homicides do not suddenly come out of nowhere. They all have a long record of drunk offenses. They are as plain as day and anyone with half a brain could predict that they would eventually kill someone.
The real offenders, the ones who blow .25 after killing a family or three nuns, are lost in the background noise.
I know of an illegal immigrant with two child molestation convictions who has been released to await his deportation hearings(also in Va)! Just what are the requirements to hold people...and what can be done to reduce the backlog?
Maybe the editors at the post thought this’d make a good anti-catholic piece, hence, front-page worthy.
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