Scott Gardner didn't have to die

Charlotte Observer ^ | 7/20/2005 | Jim Morrill and Greg Rickabaugh

[Once-Ler]

Scott Gardner's blood is on the hands of our politicians who refuse to enforce the immigration laws of America, and that includes GWBush, who has had over four years to address this invasion of criminals and hasn't.

Another conservative who blames everyone but the drunk driver. "Scott Gardner's blood is on the President's hands"...LOL you sound like a liberal dramacrat again Janet.

[flashbunny]

Difference is, if the federal government did their job, they wouldn't have more drunk drivers and criminals in the country.

[MudSlide]

You got to be kidding me

North Carolina most wanted list has 6 guys on it.

Hey Bubba it's time to get out of the doenut shop and back to the office - there must be a line back there by now.

[janetgreen]

Another conservative who blames everyone but the drunk driver.

That drunk driver wouldn't have even been here if the immigration laws of this country had been enforced and if the judges weren't so liberal. He came back how many times to commit crimes??

Of course this scum is to blame, but there's lots of blame to go around, and GWBush and his buddies have had over four years to do something about this mess, and he (and they) haven't done squat.

[Black Tooth]

Prosecutors and law enforcement officials blame an understaffed, underfunded immigration system for failing to deport an illegal immigrant charged three times with driving while impaired -- before being charged again Saturday in the death of a Gaston County teacher

Impaired?

[bayourod]

So you've given up holding your breath and now you are making childish threats. Good luck.

[Once-Ler]

Difference is, if the federal government did their job, they wouldn't have more drunk drivers and criminals in the country.

Actually if the local Charlotte officials had done their job this guy would still be in jail for the first 3 DWIs. The "job" you expect the Federal Gov to do has been an on going problem since before Nixon. The difference is that Dubya has offered a possible solution and promoted debate on the issue unlike most of his predecessors.

[flashbunny]

'Dubya's solution is meaningless. It's a 'guest worker' program... which is nice, but it does NOTHING to secure our borders and deport peope here illegally. The only thing that will be solved by it is that more people will be here legally. It doesn't, and will not, judging by his track record, do ANYTHING about the ones here illegally.

[Black Tooth]

Gallegos was first charged in early 2002. But prosecutors dismissed the case when he failed to appear in court.

WTF???

Yesterday it was about illegal alien gangs in Alabama, now this about North Carolina. It seems this has spread to just about everwhere.

[Once-Ler]

That drunk driver wouldn't have even been here if the immigration laws of this country had been enforced and if the judges weren't so liberal.

So now liberal judges are Dubya's fault? You keep on diggin that hole.

GWBush and his buddies have had over four years to do something about this mess, and he (and they) haven't done squat.

Owen, Pryor, Brown, Roberts. Your propaganda has no resemblance to reality.

[Once-Ler]

'Dubya's solution is meaningless.

That's open to debate, but so far I haven't seen any other credible solutions. Where are the other plans?

[janetgreen]

Your propaganda has no resemblance to reality.

You deny reality. GWBush IS a liberal, no better than the liberal judges who came before him.

[Black Tooth]

so far I haven't seen any other credible solutions. Where are the other plans?

I have lurked here and read about hundreds of good credible solutions, yet none as far as I know have ever been implemented. I am sure if you look back, you'll see many ideas and very good solutions.

The problem it seems, is that our government is not interested.

[flashbunny]

Gee, let me guess how this works.

I write down a logical solution to the problem.

You say it would never work because it has no support (I.e. from the president or the 'mainstream' republican policy, or it differs from what the bureaucrats want to do.)

Since it will "never work", the only solution is to support the 'solution' that the president supports. And that anything else is a waste of time.

Know how I know this?

It's what "dubya knows what he's doing on this!" crowed always does.

There, I just saved both of us about 15 minutes.

[Once-Ler]

You deny reality. GWBush IS a liberal, no better than the liberal judges who came before him.

Thank you.

[Once-Ler]

The problem it seems, is that our government is not interested.

Politicians are always interested in what a majority of voters want. It does beg the question why defenders of the border have few political leaders to take up the cause.

[Black Tooth]

Politicians are always interested in what a majority of voters want.

I could not disagree more.

[Once-Ler]

It's what "dubya knows what he's doing on this!" crowed always does.

It's entirely possible you and I will never agree. Your home page is a tribute to Freeper personalities and lacks any substance on the issue of immigration. If your looking to fight with me I'm fine with that, but I thought perhaps you might know of a "conservative" solution I had not considered or heard of.

[Bob]

Gallegos was first charged in early 2002. But prosecutors dismissed the case when he failed to appear in court.

WTF???

If the prosecutors knew he was an illegal, they probably assumed that he had fled back to Mexico. It was probably just too much trouble for them to try to find him.

[Little Ray]

Nope. He has a valid viewpoint. He's wrong, of course, but we need to read his take.