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Identity of van driver determined in fatal bus crash (MN illegal)
Star Tribune ^ | 2/2508 | Curt Brown

Posted on 02/25/2008 10:29:57 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

U.S. immigration officials say today they've determined the identity of the 24-year-old woman who drove a van into a school bus, killing four children last week in southwestern Minnesota.

The driver has been identified as Olga Marina Franco and she's from Guatemala, according to Gail Montenegro, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago.

Franco has been charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide stemming from the Feb. 19 crash near Cottonwood. Witnesses say she blew through a stop sign, jumped over some railroad tracks and hit the rear of the bus, which tipped over and collided with a pickup truck.

The woman initially said her name was Alianiss Nunez Morales, but ICE officials said she was using a fake name and was here illegally.

Immigration agents first interviewed Franco on Feb. 21. During that interview, she said she was from Mexico. Investigators ran her fingerprints through databases and found no matches, hinting that she had no prior contact with immigration officials.

ICE has placed a detainer on Franco, so that if she is released from the Lyon County jail in Marshall for any reason, she will be turned over to federal authorities and placed in deportation proceedings.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: alianissmorales; aliens; buscrash; illegal; illegals; immigration; olgamarinafranco
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Who worked at the Jenny-O plant, do you know? Franco using the Morales alias, or another Morales?


41 posted on 02/25/2008 11:01:39 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: XeniaSt

Gee whiz, if there were this many military people killed in Iraq, there’d be a fire storm — so why aren’t candidates up in arms about our citizens being killed here on our own roads by illegals?

So we fight ‘em over there so that we won’t have to fight ‘em over here — but we aren’t fighting them over here and they’re here killing us!


42 posted on 02/25/2008 11:01:46 AM PST by quintr
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To: mewzilla

Don’t know for sure right now.....I’ll stay on it...


43 posted on 02/25/2008 11:02:42 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thanks!


44 posted on 02/25/2008 11:03:55 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: quintr
Very good point.

Don't expect to get any better with any of the current candidates.


45 posted on 02/25/2008 11:04:50 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: AD from SpringBay
Both the school and the company who hired the driver should be held accountable.

The driver of the school bus was not responsible for the accident. This woman was driving a private vehicle, is an illegal alien and was responsible for the accident.

46 posted on 02/25/2008 11:09:02 AM PST by Dianna
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Tim Pawlenty, Governor and potential VP nominee for mcpain, hasn’t exactly been a success on illegal immigration. Since this thing crawled across our border illegally and killed four youngsters, a mcpain/pawlenty ticket must be shown in this light always. mcpain needs to review this case again and again when trying to revive comprehensive immigration. This is gut-wrentching.


47 posted on 02/25/2008 11:11:26 AM PST by yorkie01
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What has been mind-boggling for me from the beginning is they couldn’t figure out her Spanish speaking country of origin.

All Spanish speaking countries have their own unique accents. And depending from what area of that country, there are also regional accents.

DUH…..

What a bunch of incompetent fools.


48 posted on 02/25/2008 11:15:50 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Olga’s accent may have a Russian oor Ukranian flavor.


49 posted on 02/25/2008 11:20:35 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

My Dad would have known the difference.......


50 posted on 02/25/2008 11:21:18 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: yorkie01

In Tim’s defense, he tried unsuccessfully to get immigration and visa status put on ID’s and DL’s. The rats shot it down.....


51 posted on 02/25/2008 11:22:35 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

One less vote for Hillary/Hussein.


52 posted on 02/25/2008 11:24:13 AM PST by ducdriver ("Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." GKC)
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To: From many - one.

Olga is a very common name in Latin America.


53 posted on 02/25/2008 11:39:01 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“My Dad would have known the difference.......”

Thank you for understanding.


54 posted on 02/25/2008 11:47:47 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Seriously....My Dad was a language specialist. He would have been able to pinpoint her to a specific country...


55 posted on 02/25/2008 12:04:48 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This is a lot of bovine excrement. Would we be protesting if our weather weren’t such a deterrent? I can’t believe how calmly we are taking this. 4 kids dead. 3 sets of parents whose lives will never be made whole. I don’t want the deaths of these poor children to be exploited, but if this doesn’t provide impetus for us to change our tolerance of illegal immigration, what the dickens will?


56 posted on 02/25/2008 12:38:46 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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To: mewzilla; ButThreeLeftsDo

Morales is a blond, green-eyed Peurto Rican mother of 2 living in NY. Franco works at Jenny-O.


57 posted on 02/25/2008 12:50:45 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

bump for later


58 posted on 02/25/2008 1:11:52 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: XeniaSt

Every time I’ve brought this illegal alien crap up in a thread some dumbass has attacked me for bringing it up.. saying “What’s that got to do with this”... sigh (keep up the good work)


59 posted on 02/25/2008 1:12:14 PM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Seriously....My Dad was a language specialist. He would have been able to pinpoint her to a specific country...”

We are both making the same point. There is great talent available such as your father, and these incompetent fools didn’t call in the talent.


60 posted on 02/25/2008 1:17:14 PM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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