Posted on 04/19/2008 1:30:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Hard numbers: Illegal alien drunk drivers in North Carolina
By Michelle Malkin • April 19, 2008
WRAL reports on a new statistical breakdown of illegal alien drunk drivers in North Carolina. It’s a blood-pressure-raising look at the deadly revolving door, catch-and-release, the deportation abyss, and the danger of sanctuary policies embraced by those sworn to defend and protect the public:
Seven-year-old Marcus Lassiter won’t see his eighth birthday. George Smith was on his morning commute to Duke University but never made it to work. Betty Coates might struggle with daily tasks for the rest of her life.
Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell sees a pattern among the cases of these victims of drunken driving: Each accused driver was in the United States illegally.
Bizzell pointed to Hipolito Hernandez, an illegal immigrant who faces second-degree murder charges in the hit-and-run that killed Marcus last Sunday.
“This case here is a prime example of the justice system letting the people down,” Bizzell said.
Nearly 300 illegal immigrants were convicted on driving-while-impaired charges and placed in North Carolina prisons in 2007.
Hispanics also account for 18 percent of drunken-driving arrests, while making up less than 7 percent of the state’s population, according to a study from the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center aired in WRAL’s documentary “Focal Point: Crossing the Line.”
The study also showed that Hispanics involved in car crashes were 2.5 times more likely to be drunk than white drivers and three times more likely to be drunk than black drivers.
In the three cases listed above, each of the accused drunken drivers had extensive contact with the judicial system – but had managed to elude the immigration system until these incidents.
Johnston County is lucky to have a law enforcement leader who refuses to capitulate to open-borders hectoring and propaganda. He gets it:
Latino advocacy groups often urge the public to step back from the emotion over immigration and focus on the individual crimes.
Advocates admit that drunk driving is a problem within the Hispanic community and have aired public-service ads to combat the problem.
Drunk driving is also the No. 1 killer of young Hispanic men, according to the UNC study.
Bizzell said the tragedy is that deaths such as Marcus’ and debilitating injuries such as Coates’ are preventable.
“This isn’t about race. This isn’t about Mexico versus the United States,” Bizzell said. “It’s about a drunk Mexican that’s illegal, driving drunk, no operator’s license, stolen vehicle, killing a little 7-year-old boy.”
Every drunk driver who kills someone should be shot, or given that drug cocktail that people say can let you be awake while your muscles stop.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Deport. All. Illegals.
It’s that simple.
But unless you build a fence or find some way to keep them from comming back in, what the hell good is that going to do?
From another source.
I HOPE people are starting to fed up with this although my hopes aren't that high based on responses I get from people when I tell them about these stories.
The problem is they simply come back across the border.
If they commit a crime they should serve their time , then deport them.
Hopefully by then we have a fence up and preventing.
(yeah, I’m an optimist)
We need to start holding these judges, law enforcers, parole boards, psychiatrists, governments responsible, financially.
IOW, sue their a##. until they think twice about letting the criminals loose.
In a typical class of elementary students in Texas, if one asks the question how many of them have been in a car accident (safety unit stressing seat belt use), about 2 in 10 white children will raise their hands and 8 in 10 Latino children will raise theirs.
I don’t think Texas has the courage to report the ethnicity of drivers involved in auto fatalities, so kudos to NC. I think federal law should require that such information be published or highway funds withheld.
!Me gusta mi cerveza!
Your tagline drives fear into my heart.
When Islamic Jihadists cross the border from Mexico and kill many Americans in a terror attack, the whore politicians will have to secure the borders.
Bust them that are found drunk, get his address, round up the family, consfiscate the property for auction and deport the whole bunch! Screw due process for people here illegally!
..so ignore both the law and the devastated families
NC is a haven for illegals. Plenty of jobs, super welfare program...free med care, “emergency immediate funding”,, school lunches free, utility assistance, a well organized coyote program, the mexican lotto and it goes on and on. Plus no one in NC cares. ICE could have a field day here.
But then we're still going to have to be PAYING FOR THEM!!! What we need is not just prisons, but work camps. Either they work their asses off 16 hours a day, or they get 24 hr/day lockdown (we'll let them decide which one they want to go with). Either way, at this point, I just don't see either prison (as it stands now) or deportation (even with a fence) as being a viable option. Some kind of change has to be made. Personally, I'm starting to think that maybe the Muzzies have something with their 'cut off a hand' thing.
Perhaps I should add, too, that we need the harshest possible penalties for employers of illegals. Long stiff prison terms that they can serve alongside those that commit these heinous crimes. When they stop employing illegals, and our citizens are prevented from renting or selling property to illegals, most of the illegals will deport themselves. Enough is enough.
Take heart, a huge chunk of those anchor babies will be jailbirds.
Then let’s get Joe Arpaio (sheriff of Phoenix, I think) to handle the arrangements.
Tent city, bologna sandwiches, pink uniforms. Right out in the desert.
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