Posted on 04/07/2007 6:01:30 PM PDT by Pikamax
When Eliseo Hernandez came to the United States 30 years ago, he thought he drove better after a few beers.
Driving drunk had been normal back in Mexico, he said. But Hernandez, 54, learned of its perils firsthand. He quit the practice after falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a tree 18 years ago.
Then, last year, a young Hispanic man who authorities say was drunk nearly killed Hernandez's only son, Diego, in a crash on a rural Johnston County road. Eliseo Hernandez's daughter, who was nine months pregnant, lost her unborn child in the accident.
Hernandez has spent the past year following Diego through four hospitals and 14 brain surgeries. Diego only recently began to smile again and might never walk.
Hernandez said he hopes his painful journey will teach his friends and family a lesson. Car accidents are the top killer of Hispanics in North Carolina, and the disproportionate number of alcohol-related arrests and wrecks are an embarrassment to a minority already beleaguered by hard feelings over illegal immigration.
"It makes the Mexicans look bad, very bad," Hernandez said. "The American people say 'Oh, it's just another Hispanic, the same as the others.' "
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I’m pretty sure guzzling a 1/5 REALLY improves driving...
True.
Child molesters liven up playgrounds, I hear...
Its time to start up another branch of MADD.
MAID.
Mothers Against Illegal Drunks.
Yeah, driving drunk is just a part of their culture. We’re really just a bunch of bigots for not understanding. Maybe they could push for special protection under the first amendment or something.
That and knocking the girls up at the age of 12 and 13. That’s what scares the hell out of pro-choicers. It’s stark as hell where my youngest goes to school. He dropped the bomb in conversation this evening in the car. He said 5 or 6 girls in his middle school are pregnant. -0- black. -0- white. 6 hispanic. Whatever.
I have been friends with several Hispanics over the years and the ones I know will admit that they have a lot of problems. Like in Mexico, its pretty common for men to beat and abuse women. I have seen it here, they come here and still have that culture where it is okay to do that stuff. I know its a sterotype but it fits alot of the time.
I’ve seen some of those guys so drunk, and still on their feet and moving, as to defy all reason. Some of them will stay vertical long after a “normal” drunk would be passed out in a gutter.
More Americans are killed by illegal aliens every day than are killed in Iraq!
That's very frightening. I think we had less than that in my entire four years in high school, although that was.....some time ago.
Lyndon Baines Johnson held firmly to the belief that a few (dozen) beers improved his ability to drive across the prairie.
Not only does it endanger the driver and other motorists, but also the 25 other mexicans in the truck...
It is a part of our culture to fine drunk drivers. I wonder which culture will win this battle?
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. Here's a sampling of USA cities 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.
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