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After My Daughter's Death -- A Father's View of the Immigration Debate
Fox News ^ | Aug. 11, 2010 | Ray Tranchant

Posted on 08/15/2010 12:43:13 PM PDT by AuntB

My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly.

The explosion was so loud witnesses said it sounded like a bomb going off, hit from behind going more than 70 mph. They were tiny, skinny little girls stuffed somewhere in the floorboards when the police and EMT crew arrived.

Alfredo Ramos, a previous DUI offender and alcoholic, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were being accused of being “sanctuary cities” as Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera screamed at each other during the national news hour. O’Reilly was right.

I know what sanctuary means more than most ever will.

But the dilemma in Arizona is more important to Virginians than it seems. Last Monday, Sister Denise Mosier was killed in Prince William County. An illegal immigrant from Bolivia with two previous drunken-driving convictions is charged...

Here's what I would like to tell the Secretary: Ms. Napolitano, ICE was not there in 2007 when my daughter and her friend died. And, though ICE picked up the man who hit Sister Mosier, he wasn’t kept in custody and was sent back out the streets.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez.. the solution lies with a comprehensive plan that includes amnesty. After all, he said, “they pick your grapes, clean your hotels and are then victimized.” Luis should worry about protecting U.S. Hispanics and instead of counting on prospective Hispanic votes.

On my trip visiting Rome, my passport was touched by nine officials, some carrying Uzis. I was not offended; And I don’t feel violated when an official checks my driver’s license or passport here. It sure beats the funeral procession that I was a part of.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; anotherdeadamerican; crimaliens; illegalimmigration; invaders; killingourkids; murderers
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"I don’t believe the current system can process this many people and verify that some are not criminals or terrorists, let alone pay benefits to new Americans.....Consider that when 12 million get citizenship, 10 million of their relatives will migrate legally. Of course citizenship will make them pay into the system, but the amount won’t be realized for many years. .....But waving a magic wand over 12 million people will not solve this immigration problem. It worries me that we would even consider giving foreigners legal rights to Social Security, health care and school in a time of $14 trillion dollar deficits."
1 posted on 08/15/2010 12:43:16 PM PDT by AuntB
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To: AuntB

The DemocRATS love to tell us about how they are “fighting” the “War on Poverty” and yet they continue to demand that we import more of it. Remember in November. The ‘RATS gotta go!


2 posted on 08/15/2010 12:46:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! America's Taliban!)
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To: AuntB

We had an accident here last year that an illegal was running from the police, they didn’t even have their lights or siren on, they were just following him and he ran a red light and hit a car with a senior high girl and her boyfriend that had graduated the year before. The car burst into flames and they perished inside. Onlookers couldn’t rescue them due to the intense heat and flames. So sad. This was in Huntsville AL. Far from the border of Mexico.


3 posted on 08/15/2010 12:52:43 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (Let this nightmare of Nov. 4, 2008 be over ASAP.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Blame every stinking politician GOP and DEM for not policing the border. Blame also every single person who knowingly and willing pay under the table illegals.

What part of illiegal is so hard to understan?

Put everyone of the aforementioned on trial for breaches of National Security as well as aiding and abetting a known criminal.

What part of the LEGAL process is so hard to follow. I did it and so can everyone else. No buts!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 08/15/2010 12:55:20 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The socialist accuses the capitalist of greed. The capitalist provides you a good or service that you are willing to exchange for money. The Socialist robs you of your money to provide goods and services that others want but won't exchange their money. In doing so they increase the demand for this exchange. The socialist skims a fee for this service. How is it the socialist claims moral superiority and gets away with it?
5 posted on 08/15/2010 12:56:29 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: AuntB

Heartbreaking post.

The author makes several good points regarding the requirements to reenter America after his trip to Italy in contrast with the “security” of our Mexican border.

I, however, would never have forgiven his daughter’s murderer. In fact, I don’t.


6 posted on 08/15/2010 12:56:33 PM PDT by fullchroma (Arizona native)
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To: AuntB

“But waving a magic wand over 12 million people will not solve this immigration problem. It “

Thank you (whoever first said this)


7 posted on 08/15/2010 12:56:50 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: AuntB
They were tiny, skinny little girls stuffed somewhere in the floorboards when the police and EMT crew arrived

All the economic arguments against amnesty, open borders, and lax immigration control means nothing compared to this

8 posted on 08/15/2010 1:02:09 PM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out!! The Americans are On the March!! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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To: AuntB
Do some investigation about what is happening on the border, the coyotes and how they treat the young women they coerce to “immigrate”.

If this does not make your stomach turn and cause outrage, nothing will. And our leaders stand around and do nothing ....

sschu

9 posted on 08/15/2010 1:05:58 PM PDT by schu
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To: AuntB

Thank you for posting this.


10 posted on 08/15/2010 1:11:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone (If we could remove bad representatives through voting, voting would have been made illegal by now.)
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To: schu

45,000 of the hundreds of thousands of illegals entering thru Mexico are not Mexicans but from other countries.

Mexico is the pathway.

The portal for terrorists welcomed by our esteemed president and the demonrats in congress.


11 posted on 08/15/2010 1:14:50 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: AuntB
"On my trip visiting Rome, my passport was touched by nine officials, some carrying Uzis."

Also note.

You were profiled by Italian Customs and upon return , you were profiled by US Customs.

12 posted on 08/15/2010 1:15:32 PM PDT by NoLibZone (If we could remove bad representatives through voting, voting would have been made illegal by now.)
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To: AuntB; All

Napolitano, Obama, McCain, Pelosi, et al., have the safety net of armed security and bodyguards to provide distance from the problems that visit upon normal Americans everyday. Perhaps it’s time to “Tear down that wall” as was once stated so eloquently.
Pharaoh did nothing to release the Israelites until the plagues touched his family and took his first born son. Remove those protections and watch the government, shake it to the foundations.


13 posted on 08/15/2010 1:23:15 PM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: AuntB

Who says they want to be Americans?

I’ve seen lots of illegal alien parades and protests but none of them were about American citizenship.


14 posted on 08/15/2010 1:24:12 PM PDT by donna (Why did John McCain let it get so bad?)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
How is it the socialist claims moral superiority and gets away with it?

Only by "owning" the media.

15 posted on 08/15/2010 1:24:37 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: AuntB

Nothing more expensive than cheap labor.


16 posted on 08/15/2010 1:30:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: AuntB
The dark side of illegal immigration

Snip:
A review of State Police auto accident reports for 2002 through 2004 for that area of the Eastern Shore also revealed that of the 179 accidents involving Hispanic laborers:

• 75% of the drivers had no auto insurance.
• Nearly all of the vehicles driven by migrants were registered to other drivers.
• 93% of the vehicles had false out-of-state tags.
In 2003 and 2004, 128 of the 395 people, 32.4%, arrested on DUI charges were Hispanic, a rate six times greater than the Hispanic portion of the population.

17 posted on 08/15/2010 1:31:47 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: AuntB

I remember this case because the murders (I refuse to call it an “accident”) happened very close to where we lived when we were in Virginia Beach.


18 posted on 08/15/2010 2:08:08 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: fullchroma
If that were a member of my family, I would have told the authorities, better lock him up where I can't get to him...when I do get to him I will kill him.

Anyone doesn’t like it, kiss my mick ass.

19 posted on 08/15/2010 2:18:07 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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To: AuntB

Everyone should read the entire story, my heart really hurts for him and his family.


20 posted on 08/15/2010 2:50:38 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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