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Feds say accused triple murderer here illegally Associated Press PITTSBURGH - A man charged Sunday in a triple homicide in Altoona is a Mexican immigrant here illegally. Federal immigration authorities say 25 year-old Miguel Padilla (puh-de-ya) could have been deported long ago. They say Padilla, who lived in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania entered the country illegally when he was about 9 years-old. Authorities also say immigration agents were investigating Padilla in a criminal case when he was arrested in the triple homicide in Altoona. Altoona Police say Padilla shot and killed three men early Sunday morning after he was refused entry into...

A year ago, Altoona Police arrested Padilla during a domestic dispute and Cooper said the department discovered that he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Cooper said he didn't know why Padilla wasn't deported after that. "For the answer to that question, you'll have to call" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles illegal immigration deportation, Cooper said. "They were notified."

In an article entitled, "Two Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court," (New York Times, 8/19/05), Andrew Pollack wrote, "The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgements in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that…the owner of the ranch had harmed them." Pollack quoted Morris Dees, co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as stating, "…it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land (loss of the ranch would) send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to use violence." Note that Dees, true to communist form,...