Posted on 02/22/2008 3:21:59 PM PST by mdittmar
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ―
A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school bus crash that killed four children, CBS station WCCO-TV reported.
A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales, 23, of Minneota, was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign Tuesday before hitting a bus carrying 28 students from Lakeview School, Lyon County Attorney Richard Maes said. The accident happened near the small town of Cottonwood, in southwestern Minnesota.
Morales was also charged with a stop sign violation and for driving without a valid license, Maes said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are trying to figure out the woman's true identity. Claude Arnold, ICE special agent in charge of investigations, said his agency believes Morales is an illegal immigrant. ICE has filed paperwork to detain her for deportation proceedings after the criminal case is resolved.
"The only name we have for her is the name she gave us when she was booked," Arnold said, adding that the woman told authorities she was from Mexico.
Arnold said ICE would continue to investigate her identity.
"We're going to do everything in our power and authority to ensure justice is served in this case," he said.
Morales does not have a Minnesota driver's license, and "she doesn't have a (driver's license) anywhere that we're aware of," said Lt. Mark Peterson of the Minnesota State Patrol.
The criminal vehicular homicide charges are felonies, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. The other charges are misdemeanors.
Morales was expected to make her first appearance in court Friday.
Two brothers, the daughter of a teacher at Lakeview school and the son of a former Lakeview teacher were killed in the crash.
Six people, five of them students, remain hospitalized at Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. One student was due to go home later Friday, spokesman Kenyon Gleason said. Two other students were in fair condition and two were serious; the adult at the hospital was in fair condition.
Another student remains hospitalized at Mayo Clinic in fair condition.
School will be canceled Monday as funeral services for Hunter Javens, 9, and Jesse Javens, 13, are held there. Visitation for the brothers will take place at the school Sunday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., with the funeral service following.
Visitation for Emilee Olson, 9, was set for Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Cottonwood. A funeral service is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Arrangements for Reed Stevens, 12, of Marshall, were pending with Rehkamp and Horvath Funeral Directors.
If she gets out on bail your prediction will definitely come true. If she doesn’t get bail an army of left wing lawyers will circle the wagons around her. Either way its going to suck for the victims.
Thank you for sending that mail!!!!
I know what you mean. I’m for trade, but I want it reasoned and on a one on one basis. The big trade agreements are overly broad and ultimately destructive IMO.
An employer can verify ss#’s for any employee for free on the IRS website. if the name doesn’t match the ss#, it’s a real good indication that someone isn’t legal.
You may have misunderstood what I meant. The employer should be charged with felony murder, not for actually commiting the murder. That charge should be brought aginst the illegal.
Felony murder charges are brought against all of those involved in a crime, such as a robbery gone wrong, that involves the murder of an innocent person, even though only one person actually committed the murder.
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Ok,,,An employer finds a fake SS#. How quick do you think the police will be there to pick that person up? Huh?
If the government were doing its job, then employers wouldn’t have to be unpaid policemen! If an employer finds a fake SS# then the very least that the government could do would be to come and pick that illegal up within 5 minutes!
The police don’t do that, because they don’t want to! Instead, the illegal will go from employer to employer.
Yep. Notice how he never shows up on thse threads?
“I doubt if the little fat one has ever been out of Puerto Rico.”
ID theft of Puerto Rican U.S. Citizens by illegal aliens is a chronic proble. People here are not selling their identities, as you suggest. Their identities are being stolen, particularly from public schools, and their paperwork is sold elsewhere.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975048/posts
It takes only a minute to verify if the ss# really belongs to the person claiming it, before the person is hired. It the name doesn’t match then they don’t get hired. Don’t need the cops not to hire someone. If they can’t find a job they go home.
They would go home too, if they thought they would be immediately picked up by the police.
If the governemnt was doing their job, the employer would have a lot less worry, and a LOT less wasted time.
Also, these immigrants are aggressive. If they weren’t they wouln’t risk a dangerous border crossing across a desert wilderness. As an employer, would you want these people continually coming into your human resource office? As an employer I don’t!
If the police picked them up. Charged them with fraud. Put them in jail for a few months, and then deported them, you would have far fewer crossing the border.
Also, let’s not forget the traffic stops, hospitals, the welfare office applications, and schools. If the cops picked these people up, jailed them for attempted fraud and stealing of government services, and deported them, employers would have far, far fewer of them trying to get work.
Believe me, when the word gets out that you don't hire illegals, very few will come to your place of employment to apply. They know where they are wanted and where they are not.
If the police picked them up. Charged them with fraud. Put them in jail for a few months, and then deported them, you would have far fewer crossing the border.
They will be back across the border in no time flat after deportation because there are employers that will hire them.
It would cost must less to solve the problem if the jobs they do dry up.
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