[Cindy]

FYI regarding a car accident.

Thanks to RDTF for the ping:

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0208/493634.html

“1 Hurt, 7 Arrested in I-66 Accident”
posted 5:44 pm Tue February 05, 2008 - Fairfax, Va.

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “When police questioned the driver, Abdulla Bonilla, he could not provide them with proper identification nor could any of the 6 passengers in his silver Nissan Pathfinder.

ABC 7/NewsChannel 8’s Suzanne Kennedy reports that Immigrations Customs Enforcement agents took the suspects into a ICE facility in Fairfax where the immigration status of the suspects are being questioned.

ICE agents say the seven suspects are Mexican nationals and want to make sure that they are not part of a smuggling or human trafficking group.”

[Cindy]

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080204federickcounty.htm

“ICE begins immigration training for Maryland and Virginia officers”
FREDERICK CO., MD
(February 4, 2008)

[RDTF]

I am surprised the VA cops called ICE... I can remember not too long ago in VA when they would have let them go. Can you imagine what the cops thought when they saw the drivers name!