Posted on 04/06/2007 2:54:20 PM PDT by Trupolitik
An illegal alien suspected of causing a traffic accident and killing movie director Bob Clark, whose "A Christmas Story" has come alongside "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" as a perennial holiday must-watch, has been placed under an immigration hold by federal authorities.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed the hold on Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, a Mexican national who was living in Los Angeles as an illegal immigrant, according to a report from Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee.
Agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the hold means Valezquez-Nava, when his Los Angeles court proceedings are completed, will be turned over to federal immigration officials and put into deportation proceedings.
In Los Angeles, he was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol and vehicular manslaughter, and was being held on $100,000 bail. If he were able to post bail, he would still be held in custody, but by federal authorities, Kice reported.
Police have reported they believe Velazquez-Nava was driving his sport utility vehicle and steered it into the wrong lane on the Pacific Coast Highway early Wednesday. He struck Clark's car head-on, and police say Clark and his son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Velazquez-Nava was tested and had a 0.24 percent blood-alcohol level about the time of the accident, which would be three times what the state law considers enough to be presumed to be driving drunk.
Velazquez-Nava reportedly was driving without a license, and he and a passenger, identified as Lidia Mora, 29, were treated for minor injuries.
ALIPAC reported Velazquez-Nava didn't have any previous deportations but had been convicted in 2004 in Los Angeles of soliciting a prostitute. Court records revealed he was given 24 months probation and a $1,500 fine after pleading no contest.
Clark's big success came from his work on the 1983 production of "A Christmas Story," which tells of the campaign by a 1940s youngster, Ralphie Parker, played by Peter Billingsley, to get a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas.
It also tells how his "Old Man," played by Darren McGavin, wins a "major award," which is revealed to be a lamp shaped like a woman's leg wearing fishnet stockings.
Earlier, Clark had specialized in horror films and thrillers, such as the 1970s, "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things," and "Murder by Decree." In 1981, he released the sex farce "Porky's" and then in 1983 did the adaptation of Jean Shepherd's memoirs.
According to the Times article, Ariel was studying music at Santa Monica College.
Lyne Leavy, who headed Clark's production company, Film Classic Productions, said they often were together at night, and were on the highway early Wednesday, although it was unclear whether they were going to get something to eat or going to Ariel's apartment in nearby Santa Monica.
"[Clark] was a gentleman, one of the nicest people I knew," his New York business manager, Stuart Ditsky, told the Times. "He always kept his word. He would never hurt anybody or put in anything in his movies to embarrass anyone."
It has everything to do with it. He should not have EVER been here. Our border should be defended, and those who refuse to do it are complicit.
A drunk driver killed these people.
The fact that they were illegal Mexicans has nothing to do with it.
There are plenty of drunk US citizens that kill people every day.
Are you suggesting prohibition?
“You could make a case that ‘A Christmas Story’ has been seen by more people then any English language film in the last 35 years or so.”
Not to mention “West Side Story”, the prequel to that Neil Diamond invitation I mean song “they’re comin’ to America”
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it. I saw Porky’s though when my best friend turned 12 or 13. We went to the movies for her birthday, and she had us all sneak in to see Porky’s. That was . . . interesting.
We could, but they'll just drag it over the border from MEXICO to us, just like they do 90% of the drugs. Or they'll build a still in your national parks and forests, like the Mexican drug cartels are growing pot all over them now.
Deported? Geraldo will be soooo depressed. (Which is a good thing, in case you’re wondering.)
Thank you for that information. I was thinking it was more basic in that if they don’t follow the rules when it comes to a big issue like coming into a country illegally, what makes one think they’ll follow the rules with anything else?
Precisely the correct question. Jeraldo Rivera debated this last night with Bill O’Reilly, arguing that another drunk driver who “accidentally” killed two young girls committed only a misdemeanor and not a felony. HUH? The person was an ILLEGAL ALIEN, he should be deported no matter what (if any) infraction occuring after his original BREAKING of the LAW - coming into this country.
Jeraldo was also accusing Americans of “luring them here for decades.”
Hey thanks, Jerry. Me thinkest you have too much of a connection to your hispanic name to see this matter without bias...
Yes, it does have something to do with it. If he had been deported when he should have been, it wouldn’t have happened.
Our son’s girlfriend was a high school classmate of Ariel. I gather he was a nice kid. Such a shame.
I’m saying that if he had knocked on the front door (Duncan Hunter 2008)he would have been screened. Our actions today, influence our future. Chances are that he would not have been there, at that time.
Once again, a sanctuary city policy has killed Americans.
As we reported last night, 17-year-old Allison Kunhardt and 16-year-old Tessa Tranchant were killed by an illegal alien drunk driver in Virginia. The man, 22-year-old Alfredo Ramos from Mexico, had three previous alcohol-related convictions, and also an identity-theft conviction, but he had never been sentenced to prison.
The incidents all took place in and around Virginia Beach, which is a sanctuary city. That means the authorities do not report criminal illegal aliens to the feds, unless it’s a drastic situation.
Amazingly, the clueless mayor of Virginia Beach, Meyera Oberndorf, doesn’t seem to know that Police Chief Alfred Jacocks is not informing the Feds about illegal criminals:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MEYERA OBERNDORF (D), MAYOR OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: We were called, I believe, a sanctuary city. And I had not heard that before.
But I can promise you, neither I, nor any member of the council has ever adopted any legislation to make this a sanctuary city. But what we have done is we, years ago, set up a Human Rights Commission, so that all people will be given the opportunity to be heard, to be responded to, as we would any citizen.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Ridiculous.
Along with Mayor Oberndorf, Judge Colon Whitehurst is also a villain. Even after a DUI conviction, he would not sentence Ramos to jail the second time around, putting him right back out on the street, where he was able to kill the two girls.
And the governor of Virginia, Timothy Kaine, he doesn’t seem to care much about policing illegal aliens.
Now, last night, the father and sister of Allison Kunhardt had the courage to speak to us just hours after Allison’s funeral.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ASHLEY KUNHARDT, SISTER KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN: Oh, Ally was—Ally was full of life. She was very sweet. She was very innocent.
DAVID KUNHARDT, DAUGHTER KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN: You try to reason why anything like this would ever happen to your daughter, because it’s senseless, you start to think about what’s wrong with our system.
It’s not one thing, it’s several things. It has to do with the immigration laws not being followed correctly, or they’re too slack.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
All right.
“Talking Point” says, enough is enough. President Bush should warn all the sanctuary cities, which we have listed on billoreilly.com, that, if they continue to disobey federal law, their law enforcement federal grants will be cut off. That should happen today, Mr. President.
Secondly, the good people of Virginia Beach should immediately begin a recall process for Mayor Oberndorf. It’s obvious she doesn’t know what’s going on.
And, by the way, the mayor has refused to come on “The Factor”, and was called a number of times, despite her saying the opposite. She was called. We can prove it.
And the bottom line on this is that all Americans have a right to protection from irresponsible people. The Founders created government to provide that protection. But our governments generally have bowed to political correctness and are failing to protect us.
We are going to make Virginia Beach the flash point in stopping the immigration madness. We hope astute media people like Kerry Daugherty of The Pilot down there will help us out. No more sanctuary cities, period.
And that’s “The Memo.”
Most Ridiculous Item
We’re getting quite a bit of action on our billoreilly.com poll question: Will actor Charlie Sheen damage his career if he narrates a 9/11 conspiracy film?
Some of those voting are far left Kool-Aid drinkers told to support Sheen by nutty Web sites they visit.
Now I really feel sorry for these people, I do, as they are similar to the ones who followed crazy Jim Jones down to South America in the `70s and wound up drinking a poison Kool-Aid-like substance which of course killed them.
People who are incapable of thinking of themselves are always exploited, always, thus the name, Kool-Aid drinkers.
In addition, they are ridiculous. But we want you to vote on our poll, those of you who are thinking for yourselves.
—You can catch Bill O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memo” and “Most Ridiculous Item” weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the FOX News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: oreilly@foxnews.com
Why was this removed by the Admin/Mods to “local news” and “entertainment”?
Is this news NOT part of the immigration issue?
What gives?
Well, the drunk driver wasn’t a US citizen, was it? If this guy had been deported when he should have been, he wouldn’t have killed anyone in this country. Speaking of illogical.
Exactly. Many may figure if they get away with violating immigration laws they can get away with violating other laws as well.
O’Reilly and Geraldo on Illegals
Friday, April 06, 2007
This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” April 5, 2007, that has been edited for clarity.
BILL O’REILLY, HOST: Now for the “Top Story” tonight: another view of this on the fair and balanced network, FOX News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, seen weekends at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.
GERALDO RIVERA, HOST, “GERALDO AT LARGE”: Thank goodness.
O’REILLY: OK. Sanctuary cities, what do you think?
RIVERA: I think you have the story almost exactly wrong, my friend. I think that we’re talking about drunk driving. And there were 347 drunk driving fatalities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the year 2005. I think this may be the first drunk driving story we have done from Virginia.
And the only reason it’s news on “The Factor” is because the driver was an illegal alien.
O’REILLY: Right.
RIVERA: What if his name was Bubba? What if his name was Buddy? What if his name was Bobby?
O’REILLY: Not the same story. Not the same story.
RIVERA: It’s not the same story, but, still, you know — and my heart goes out to those parents.
O’REILLY: I hope so.
RIVERA: Really, it does. But there are 17,000 families that suffered the way those parents have.
O’REILLY: Yes.
RIVERA: It’s not an illegal alien story, Bill. It’s a drunk driving story.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: Here’s why you’re wrong.
RIVERA: And I think you owe that poor lady mayor an apology.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: No. No.
RIVERA: She doesn’t enforce immigration policy.
O’REILLY: She has set up a system in her city knowingly...
RIVERA: No, she hasn’t, Bill.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: ... that says the police chief...
RIVERA: Don’t be the — don’t be the — what’s his name, Lou Dobbs’ mom.
(CROSSTALK)
RIVERA: Lou Dobbs has regenerated his dead career on the backs of illegal aliens.
O’REILLY: All right.
RIVERA: Let’s not go there.
O’REILLY: You listen to me. I will listen to you.
RIVERA: The Minutemen are wearing guns now on the border.
O’REILLY: You listen to me. I will listen to you.
RIVERA: Are they going to start shooting illegal aliens?
O’REILLY: When you enter this country illegally, number one, you have no right to be here, no right. That’s the truth.
RIVERA: That’s true.
O’REILLY: And, number two, when you’re caught committing a crime, as this man was, four times.
RIVERA: He was drunk in public twice.
O’REILLY: Hold it. Four times.
(CROSSTALK)
RIVERA: And, one time, he was a drunk driver with no victims.
O’REILLY: He should have been deported the first time. And he was not. And the reason he wasn’t deported...
RIVERA: Because he didn’t commit a felony.
O’REILLY: It doesn’t make any difference.
RIVERA: And he didn’t commit a misdemeanor...
O’REILLY: He committed a crime.
RIVERA: He didn’t commit a misdemeanor having to do with moral turpitude either.
O’REILLY: All right.
(CROSSTALK)
RIVERA: Everyone followed the law. You owe everyone an apology, from the governor to the mayor down.
O’REILLY: No, they didn’t. No, they didn’t.
Now, I just want to get this straight. You, Geraldo Rivera, with teenage daughters...
RIVERA: Right.
O’REILLY: ... are telling me that you are OK with somebody sneaking into the country, becoming drunk, get convicted of a DUI, and staying here? You’re all right with that?
RIVERA: My nightmare is my daughters having anything to do with a drunk...
O’REILLY: Are you OK with that?
RIVERA: Let me finish my answer.
My nightmare is my daughters having anything to do with a person driving drunk. That’s my nightmare.
O’REILLY: OK.
RIVERA: It could be a Jewish drunk. It could be a Polish drunk.
O’REILLY: But this guy didn’t have to be here.
RIVERA: It could be an Irish drunk.
O’REILLY: No.
RIVERA: It could be an Italian drunk. What the hell difference does it make?
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: It makes plenty of difference!
RIVERA: It does not, Bill.
O’REILLY: He doesn’t have a right to be here!
RIVERA: He didn’t commit a felony.
O’REILLY: He doesn’t have a right to be in this country!
RIVERA: What — but that has nothing to do with the fact that he was a drunk!
O’REILLY: Yes, it does! He should have been deported! He should have been deported!
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: And this mayor and the police chief didn’t deport him!
RIVERA: Listen, do you know how many people we have in jail? How many of them are illegal aliens? Illegal aliens commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens do. They do.
O’REILLY: This guy shouldn’t have been here.
RIVERA: Cool your jets. It has nothing to do with illegal aliens. It has to do with drunk driving.
O’REILLY: It doesn’t.
RIVERA: Don’t obscure a tragedy to make a cheap political point.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: If I’m the father...
RIVERA: It’s a cheap political point!
O’REILLY: No, it isn’t.
RIVERA: And you know it!
O’REILLY: This is justice.
RIVERA: This has nothing to do with that poor old lady mayor.
O’REILLY: And you want anarchy.
RIVERA: Has nothing to do with that mayor.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: No. You want anarchy.
RIVERA: No. What I want...
O’REILLY: You want open-border anarchy. That’s what you want.
RIVERA: What I — what I want is fairness. We have lured these people...
O’REILLY: Fairness? Bull!
RIVERA: We have lured these people...
O’REILLY: This is the law.
RIVERA: We have lured these people to this country...
O’REILLY: Oh, yeah.
RIVERA: ... with a promise of jobs in a country with basically full domestic employment.
O’REILLY: All right.
RIVERA: We have, for decades, lured them here.
O’REILLY: This family...
RIVERA: And now we’re starting a mob scene. You’re going to have...
O’REILLY: This family lured no one.
(CROSSTALK)
RIVERA: Do you want your viewers to go knocking on people’s door, door to door?
O’REILLY: Oh, bull. That’s bull.
RIVERA: “Are you an illegal? I want to take you outside and do something to you.”
O’REILLY: I want the law enforced.
RIVERA: History has seen what happens when you single out people like that.
O’REILLY: I want the law enforced.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: And you don’t.
RIVERA: Bill...
O’REILLY: You don’t.
RIVERA: Half of Congress, if they had the courage — the president of the United States, if you look at what he has to say — all want reasoned immigration reform.
O’REILLY: Then do that.
RIVERA: But to take this tragedy in Virginia Beach, and make it about illegal aliens...
O’REILLY: It is.
RIVERA: ... is a sin. That is a sin.
O’REILLY: Bull. This family lured no one. This family lost their daughter.
(CROSSTALK)
RIVERA: Three hundred and forty-seven drunk driving fatalities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
O’REILLY: We deal with Americans.
RIVERA: Do we care about them?
O’REILLY: We deal with Americans that way. And I deal with it all the time — and you know I do — with child predators and everything else.
RIVERA: But I back you with that, because it’s a reasoned approach.
O’REILLY: This is reason.
RIVERA: It singles out the perpetrators...
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: You don’t let these people stay here.
RIVERA: No. Wait. Wait. I think — let’s calm down.
O’REILLY: I will give you the last word.
RIVERA: OK.
O’REILLY: You don’t let these people stay here.
RIVERA: A child predator is someone with a predilection to commit an offense against a juvenile. So, you go — because of that cause and effect, you go after the person who is perpetrating the offense.
There’s no cause and effect between his illegality and his drunkenness.
O’REILLY: Sure there is. He’s irresponsible.
RIVERA: But Latinos aren’t more drunk than other people.
O’REILLY: Latino? Bull. It’s about Ramos, not Latinos.
RIVERA: Right. I agree. And that’s why...
O’REILLY: He should be out.
RIVERA: ... if Ramos was Raminski, would we care?
O’REILLY: We would certainly care.
RIVERA: If he was an illegal?
O’REILLY: If he broke the law, he would go — he gets deported the first time.
RIVERA: Seventeen thousand fatalities drunk driving.
O’REILLY: First time.
All right. How much time do we have?
We have one minute.
What are you doing on your show this weekend?
RIVERA: Oh.
(LAUGHTER)
RIVERA: Well, thank you very much for asking, Bill.
You know, seriously, I think that one of the wonderful things about our network is that we are fair and balanced, that impassioned common peers...
O’REILLY: Yes. People can decide whether you’re right or I’m right.
RIVERA: Right. And they can.
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: And they will decide that I’m right.
(LAUGHTER)
RIVERA: Well...
O’REILLY: All right.
RIVERA: Maybe your viewers will, and my viewers will judge it the other way.
So, will — I think that there is — there is that — what that does is, you often talk about political correctness and left-wing media. And I think that they do think portray our network unfairly, because they fail to represent that we are on different sides of the fence, in this issue most passionately, but many others as well.
O’REILLY: That’s why we have you on every week.
RIVERA: So, I — and I appreciate the chance.
O’REILLY: Right. OK.
Geraldo Rivera, check him out, 8:00 Saturday and Sunday, in “The Factor” slot.
Good weekend. Happy Easter.
Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!”
Our immigration policy must be adjusted to encourage Swedes, Poles, Eyetalians, Germans, and Belgians to call the USA home!.
All illegal Mexicans must move to South Dakota or be sent to Alcatraz.
Problem solved.
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