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Myrick to seek change in immigration system JIM MORRILL Staff Writer To help fix an immigration system she believes is broken, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick plans to introduce the "The Scott Gardner Act" when Congress returns in September.Gardner was the Mount Holly man killed last month in Brunswick County when his car was hit by a truck driven by an illegal Mexican immigrant. Ramiro Gallegos has been charged with drunken driving and murder.It was Gallegos' fifth impaired driving charge in five years. He was eligible for deportation each time he was arrested. Though he was entered in computers as an...

Lawmaker: Immigration staffing 'inexcusable'Four days after an N.C. man was killed in a car crash involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick has asked federal immigration officials to explain why the state has just one deportation officer. Myrick, R-N.C., wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other officials about the death of Scott Gardner of Mount Holly, who was killed Saturday when his car was hit by a truck driven by an illegal immigrant later charged with driving while impaired.The wreck marks the fourth time in three years that Ramiro Gallegos, 25, of Supply in Brunswick County, has...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prosecutors and law enforcement officials blame an understaffed, underfunded immigration system for failing to deport an illegal immigrant charged three times with driving while impaired -- before being charged again Saturday in the death of a Gaston County teacher. Ramiro Gallegos, an illegal Mexican immigrant, remained in the Brunswick County jail Tuesday on charges that include second-degree murder and DWI following the crash in coastal Brunswick County. Gallegos' truck slammed into a Subaru station wagon driven by Scott Gardner of Mount Holly. Gardner died. His wife, Tina, remains in critical condition. Their two children suffered minor injuries. The case...