Posted on 08/16/2005 9:17:51 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
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Amy Milligan 15, was flown to Carolinas Medical Center and placed in the pediatric ICU department in a coma.
Her mother, Fran Milligan, was driving the car that was hit.
"How many years will it be that we'll be affected? What will the rest of her life be like? It will be nothing like what she imagined," she said.
Police said 21-year-old Marin Gomez was driving drunk when the accident happened in Richmond County. They also think he's in the country illegally and immigration agents are investigating.
"Right now, everything is running all together for me," said Fran Milligan.
Amy was trapped in the car for 40 minutes. She's suffered multiple injuries including two collapsed lungs, and broken ribs, and has been through two strokes.
"We're not going to have the same Amy," said Fran Milligan.
Amy's aunt, Lorri Oxenbine, can't believe one man's actions have changed so many lives.
"Anger that he's ruined Amy's life, her future, ruined my sister's life and her future, completely changed it. And that he's also ruined his own," she said.
Police said Gomez ran from the scene, but was later caught.
Authorities have charged him with felony hit-and-run, two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, driving while impaired, no license, having a fake tag, and careless and reckless driving.
Congresswoman Sue Myrick is holding a town hall meeting Tuesday night as part of her effort to toughen laws against illegal immigrants.
Myrick is proposing new legislation called the Scott Gardner Act. Gardner was a Mount Holly schoolteacher killed when an illegal immigrant hit the car carrying him and his family.
The immigrant had five prior DWI convictions.
Myrick said he should have been deported.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. inside Myrick's office on West Main Street in Gastonia.
I'm not running from anything. The president has people in place to do the work he appointed them to do. If you don't like a policy, use the chain of command and take it up with your immediate elected representatives. You remind me of Cindy Sheehan. Demand, demand, demand. I also can recommend a good dentist for your problem.
Thanks for your comments and views - always appreciated.
"I'm not running from anything.The president has people in place to do the work he appointed them to do.
If you don't like a policy, use the chain of command and take it up with your immediate elected representatives."
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I should have said our government has agreed not to impose the death sentence on certain foreign nationals convicted of crime.
No other comment needed.
Ummm, he's an illegal alien. What was he doing in the US in the first place?
I agree about deportation, however until we make it next to impossible for them to return, they will just be back. After the second DWI I think one should be in jail. Breaking rocks.
susie
Yep, I hear ya. I agree.
... and I'm saying we have no such agreements. The STATES determine punishment of all convicted be it US citizens or foreign nationals. If convicted in federal courts the punishment is determined by federal guidelines. For the federal government to exclude "certain" people from punishment due to national origin would be discriminatory.
Well, the only thing I'm sure of is that Mexico will not extradite if the death penalty or life is imposed. And you're right it is discriminatory.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367266/posts
Bush Caves in to World Court on Death Penalty
The New American ^ | March 20, 2005 | William F Jasper
Posted on 03/21/2005 9:05:20 AM PST by w6ai5q37b
Continuing a trend of caving in to international tribunals, President Bush issued an executive order on March 8 directing state courts to review dozens of death row cases involving Mexican nationals.
The president’s order came in response to a ruling by the International Court of Justice, a UN tribunal more commonly known as the World Court, which claimed that the U.S. violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death rows in eight states. The president’s order applies to 28 Mexican convicts in California prisons, 15 in Texas and others in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, and Oregon.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican who rose to prominence when then-Governor Bush appointed him to the state Supreme Court, is opposing President Bush on this issue. Abbott contends President Bush has no constitutional authority to order hearings in Texas courts and that the convicts aren’t entitled to any more hearings, regardless of appeals to international tribunals.
Extradition is a different matter all together. If convicted in the USA, maintained in the USA, they are subject to USA law.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican who rose to prominence when then-Governor Bush appointed him to the state Supreme Court, is opposing President Bush on this issue. Abbott contends President Bush has no constitutional authority to order hearings in Texas courts and that the convicts aren’t entitled to any more hearings, regardless of appeals to international tribunals.
See what the State of Texas thinks about King George's decree...
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