Posted on 01/23/2009 8:41:35 AM PST by AuntB
The federal government’s abdication of border control has yet again become plain. Yet again, another drunken illegal immigrant is on trial for killing an American citizen. And yet again, we learn that he had been deported repeatedly.
This case of vehicular homicide involves one Eulalio Haro, a 36-year-old illegal resident of Woodstock, Ill. Haro, authorities allege, was stinking drunk when he killed 71-year-old motorcyclist Dean Knospe.
Authorities believe Haro’s blood alcohol registered at least 0.27 at the time of his arrest. Unhappily, nothing is unusual about this case.
As newspapers across the country have reported, Hispanics being arrested for DUI is “a troubling trend.” Mothers Against Drunk Driving recognizes the problem, celebrating “Hispanic Heritage Month” to publicize the facts. It is a national issue from Virginia to California.
Something else, however, isn’t unusual either: The authorities caught and released Haro three times. And they knew he was a road killer.
According to news reports, the feds deported him nearly 14 years ago after serving time for a drunk-driving wreck in which he killed his brother. He returned some 18 months later and was deported again in January 2005, and then again seven months after that. But he still returned.
So in June 2006, thanks to 40 years of open-borders, Haro tied one on, then got behind the wheel of a Chevy Cavalier. Thus did Mr. Knospe meet this fate.
The one thing we know about illegals is that they do not respect the law. If they did, they wouldn’t be here. The question is how to change that. Answer: One strike and you’re out. We need a federal law imposing the death penalty for illegal aliens who drive drunk and kill.
Of course, this will never happen. Maybe the families of these victims should file negligence lawsuits against the governments that permit these killers to run the streets. Barring that, the least we should expect from federal authorities is to deport illegals who drive drunk and preventing their return. Americans cause enough carnage without importing drunk drivers to cause more.
So, yet again, a message to authorities: Get tough. Deport illegals. Close the border.
Careful what you say about Mr Haro. Soon he will be able to cancel your vote with his own.
This is not an illegal alien problem. This is a politician problem. The fact that, for a variety of reasons including vote-lust, politically correct liberalism and a desire for cheap labor, scores of city and county governments have declared their territories as ‘sanctuary zones’, is an utter disgrace.
This is a prime example of how political correctness and the reliance of the press and politicians that citizens will not protest and take action for fear of being called racist or ‘right-wing’ results in damage and death.
Until and unless Americans fight to learn and loudly proclaim the truth about certain issues they will not go away. Political correctness does nothing but shield bad policies and, at times, bad people. Conservatives and all clear thinking Americans need to collectively grow a pair and start fighting this nonsense. Yes, we’ll be called names. But we’ll be called names regardless. The minute liberal politicians understand that pro-illegal policies are a danger to their re-election chances, those policies will change.
The right people haven’t been killed yet, i.e. children of lawmakers.
Another American mexecuted and still no border fence.
Unfortunately, deportation without a fence(and with sanctuary cities) is virtually futile.
I don’t care what the problem is named. As long as it is fixed, and that means illegals out.
Not so sure about vermin, but lice incidents are up in schools. Seriously:
1) if they’re illegal - little incentive or ability to maintain financial responsibility (e.g. insurance);
2) can’t read english (e.g. street signs); and
3) have no driver’s license (and presumably never tested on the rules of the road),
then they’re a greater liability to the safety of others on the road regardless of drinking or ethnicity.
“I’m sick and tired of the stereotyping of latinos as being drunken murderers. They are no more violent than any other group of people. Next people will be saying they are plague-carriers and vermin. The lies make me sick”
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Latinos? We’re talking about illegal aliens and if ‘latinos’ fall more into that category than anyone else....that is THEIR fault.
People are a little sick of seeing their children die because these people...1. don’t know how to drive 2. don’t know how to drink 3. SHOULD NOT BE HERE!
Now, if you’re really ‘sick’ of it, why don’t you help promote border security and enforcement...????
Before you call people liars, check your stats, or any local newspaper for DUI’s....more ‘Latino’s’ than anything else.
LIKE THIS:
DUI’s culture gap
Latinos in S.J. account for disporportionate amount of arrests
[snip]
Approximately 2,000 Latino men like Mercado were arrested in Stockton between 2000 and 2004 on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. They accounted for at least 54 percent of all DUI arrests in Stockton, according to the Police Department, although Latinos make up just 35.3 percent of the city’s population, based on the latest estimates from the California Department of Finance.
“The Latino community creates its own problems,” said Joe Ynostroza, technical assistance director for the California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Sacramento, a nonprofit educational organization. The problem is especially acute in Mexico.
“Most of this is first- or second-generation Mexican males,” he said. “Alcoholism runs rampant in the Mexican Latino community.”
Higher proportion
No other ethnic or racial group has such a high level of DUI arrests statewide, according to the California Department of Justice. Whites account for about 41 percent of DUI arrests, Blacks make up about 6.5 percent, and the remaining 7.5 percent encompasses all other racial groups combined.
Today’s demographics are a marked contrast to 1988, when whites accounted for 55.7 percent of DUI arrests and Latinos 35.3 percent, according to the department. Latinos surpassed whites in the number of DUI arrests in 1992 and have been at the top of the list each year thereafter.
The problem is not specific to Stockton, San Joaquin County or even California.
» The DUI arrest rate for Latinos in Raleigh, N.C., is 45 percent, while they account for only 8 percent of the population, said Eric Siervo, a public-policy manager at the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention in Washington.
» Latinos account for 43 percent of DUI arrests in Texas but only 32 percent of the population, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
» “The Spanish-speaking population makes up 41 percent of Miami’s citizenship and is overrepresented in death and injury caused by impaired-driving crashes,” said Susan Isenberg, president of the Miami-Dade Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
In September 1997, Salvadore Mejia, then 21, was an undocumented immigrant and unlicensed driver from Mexico who had been drinking with buddies at a produce stand just south of Stockton before he got behind the wheel.
Witnesses reported seeing Mejia’s truck weaving along Highway 99 just before it slammed into the rear of Christina Hoffman’s Buick. The teen’s car was disabled and sitting at the side of the road with its emergency lights flashing. Hoffman’s head hit the steering wheel in the impact. She died later at a hospital.
Mejia was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and the Hoffman family will never be the same.
AIDS educator Julio Olmos realized that alcohol abuse was a common thread in his clients’ problems and that drunk-driving crashes were taking more lives than HIV, so he started an information campaign, using stories of people in his Durham, N.C., community and junkyard photos of their wrecked cars.
Urbina and Olmos represent a new kind of advocacy that is bringing the national crusade against drunk driving to Latinos. The nation’s largest minority has been largely bypassed by mainstream prevention messages, researchers say, despite evidence that Latinos face a greater risk of becoming drunk-driving victims and offenders.
Data from California and other states show that Latinos account for a disproportionate share of both drivers arrested for driving under the influence, or DUI, and those involved in alcohol-related crashes. Public-safety experts are concerned that the problem may worsen as Latinos’ share of the population continues to increase. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has commissioned research to improve prevention strategies aimed at Latinos.[snip] http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/15/nation/na-dui15
You are making no sense. Why don’t you just admit you lied when you called everyone else liars? No, no can’t do that,
can you?
Hispanics lead drunk-driving arrests, accidents
Nov 12, 2000 ... Hispanics lead drunk-driving arrests, accidents. Federal study: Car crashes 3rd- leading cause of death for Latinos ...
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17717
Your links seem to support the stereotypes. Were you being sarcastic?
I think puffer’s post was means as sarcasm.
The highlighted links in his post are to the FBI most wanted list and stories immediately contradicting what he said.
He wasn’t lying, just imitating a pro-criminal alien jutjob while showing them for the liars THEY are.
“I think puffer’s post was means as sarcasm.”
A sarcasm tag would help!
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