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."
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.
PING!
The movie is so Americana....it was what America represented before the liberals destroyed it.
I would say that of the last 4 times on the road in which I nearly got into a car accident in the last two years (in North Carolina), three have been because of illegal aliens. Crazy driving maneuvers. Sometimes I feel like I’m running a gauntlet.
And so, why was this ILLEGAL ALIEN not deported in 2004?
The same happened to my wife. The perp was drunk (she smelled the alcohol), no license, no insurance, no emglish... he was allowed to leave without an arrest.
Just wait til Mexican trucks are on our roads... chili con carnage
The Supreme Court told EPA it must enforce its laws. Same way with illegal aliens - first of all, they should not be eligible for any social services or to attended school, certainly not reduced college tuition.
Fox News channel had a story this morning about 2 teenage girls who were killed by a drunken illegal alien driver. This scum had been arrested months before for drunk driving and using a fake drivers license. The judge gave him 3 months and released him without having to serve one day of the sentence. The authorities knew he was an illegal alien and did nothing. Those 2 girls blood is on the hands of the powers that be in this country who tolerate illegal immigration.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Below is a sampling of USA cities posted pictures of perps wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals)
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article.
All that said, it could be argued that if you include the number of illegals in state and local prisons the number of illegals in jail shrinks to 6% of the total prison population. Never the less if you multiply 16692 (the number of americans murdered in 2005) * .06 (illegal alien percent of total prison population) * 4 (the number of years the US has been in Iraq). The result is that more americans (4006) have been killed by illegals than have been killed in the Iraq war. This point needs to be hammered home. Just as the liberals have hammered home the point about americans killed in Iraq.
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but but but, Geraldo says its ok that Illegals are here, and being an Illegal is not a problem! sc off.
Perhaps you should consider BANNING ALCOHOL.
Bush won’t be moved to slam the borders shut until this happens to one of his own. Maybe not even then!
It has a lot to do with it. If he had not been here, the accident wouldn’t have happened.
and Hee-Raldo is deeply pizzedoff once again.....small wonder, since his total existence is to open the gates wide to his compadres
Traditionally, drinking to excess is valued in Mexican and Latin culture, where it is seen an expression of machismo. Moreover, MADD reports that Hispanics believe it takes 6-8 drinks to affect driving, while Americans think it takes 2-4 drinks.
In 2001, according to MADD, 44.1 percent of California’s drunk driving arrests in 2001 were of Hispanics, although Hispanics made up only 31.3 percent of the state’s population.
The general incidence of drunk driving has worsened in California—parallel with the skyrocketing Latino population. Accidents involving drunk drivers increased overall nearly 5 percent in the state in 2000, with an uptick in Los Angeles County of 7.6 percent in that year. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Hispanics ages 1-44.
Experts on the front lines agree that extreme drunkenness is not uncommon in DUI arrests of Latinos. Austin police officer Robert Smith, who has worked the late-night drunk patrol for over three years, noted higher rates of blood alcohol: “One thing I have noticed is that the Hispanics I arrest for DWI, 90 percent of the time, are more drunk than the white and black people I arrest.”
Assistant Dean at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas Raul Caetano put it this way, “The profile of a drunk driver in California is a young Hispanic male, and I bet you have a similar situation all over the Southwest.” He referred to a national survey, saying, “The traditional pattern of drinking in Mexico is one of infrequent drinking of high amounts.” [A troubling trend: Hispanics and DWI Latinos account for nearly half of 2002 Austin arrests By Claire Osborn and Andy Alford Austin American-Statesman Sunday, July 20, 2003]
Statistics from Austin support the observations of these men: Of 3,007 drunken driving arrests in 2002, 43 percent involved Hispanic men, even though they comprised only about 11 percent of the city’s driving population. And the story is similar elsewhere: North Carolina drunk driving arrests of Hispanics in 2000 amounted to 12.3 percent of the total 87,781 DUI arrests, while Latinos were 4.7 percent of the population according to the Census.
http://www.vdare.com/walker/dui.htm
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