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A man who is facing vehicular homicide charges in Madison County after his 18-year-old passenger was killed in a car crash last month is an illegal immigrant, according to the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Encino, 27, who admitted to deputies at the scene "to drinking a 12-pack of beer earlier in the night," is now facing charges of vehicular homicide and tampering with evidence after the one-car accident that killed Sergio Lopez, 18, and injured Hugo Trejo, 20. An administrative hold was also placed on Encino this week after an agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement determined the suspect was in the U.S. illegally. He is being held on $150,000 bond.

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The Marti family as pictured here during a happy moment no longer exists. Sean, just 24 years old, and his daughter Sage, 5 months old, were killed February 27 by a drunk illegal alien who was driving the wrong way on Highway 84 in Idaho. Natalie Marti was in a coma after the head-on crash and returned slowly to waking consciousness over a period of weeks. With coma victims, full mental functioning and memory can take much longer. She had attended college in Boise while she and Sean managed an apartment complex.
    Edgar Vasquez Hernandez, who worked as a house framer, was charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of aggravated driving. Court records show Hernandez was intoxicated at the time of the crash. Hispanics are statistically more likely to drive drunk than other groups, and motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death up to age 24 among Latinos.

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In January 2002, five-year-old Ana Cerna was another tragic death at the hands of a irresponsible illegal alien. The girl was one of five children and one adult hit by the car driven by Osvaldo Urzua, a Mexican living in Oakland, California. Ana died after being taken off life support; she had attended kindergarten. Urzua sped away from the crime scene because he feared being deported and expressed no interest in what had happened to the children he struck. On July 15, 2002, he was ordered to spend six years in prison, a disappointingly short sentence for the families of the victims.
    People like Osvaldo Urzua have created California's hit-and-run crisis resulting from the state being home to so many illegal alien drivers. The state's number of hit-and-run accidents has been accelerating, and is more than twice the national average for percentage of traffic accidents where the driver leaves the scene, i.e. 7.8 percent of the state's fatal crashes in 2001 compared with the 3.8 percent nationally. Since unlicensed drivers involved in fatal crashes may be deported, they are highly motivated not to be caught. As California Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Kohler remarked, someone who runs from an accident is "a person who may feel like they have nothing to lose." An illegal alien criminal would indeed qualify as someone with zero connection with the American community and nothing to lose.

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The danger on the highways from truckloads of illegal aliens in border areas has been increasing drastically. It is not unusual for a van full of illegal aliens to speed down the road in the wrong direction to avoid American law enforcement, causing death and injury to both American citizens and foreigners. One of the worst examples (shown at the left) took place near San Diego June 25, 2002, where seven people were killed and at least 31 were injured when a van tried to avoid a border checkpoint by turning the lights off and speeding against oncoming traffic in the wrong lane. Larry S. Baca of Albuquerque was killed when his Ford was smashed head-on by the immigrant van and knocked airborne. On March 10, 2003, two men were killed and 20 people were injured when a stolen truck loaded with illegal aliens tried to outrun American authorities.

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Cops Plan ID Checks of Jailed Immigrants
In one case, Gustavo Reyes Garcia had been jailed at least 14 times before he was accused in June of crashing into a car while driving drunk, killing a Mt. Juliet couple. In another case, Ivan Moreno is accused of killing his 74-year-old neighbor in her Bellevue home last month by strangling her and smashing her head with a statue from her garden. At the time of the killing, Moreno had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court on a charge of driving on a suspended license.

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Another tragic addition to the list of unnessary deaths caused by violent illegal aliens was the newlywed couple, James and Emilia Lee of Huachuca City, Arizona, who had been married only six weeks. They were killed Oct. 16 when a truckload of at least 17 illegal aliens traveling at 90 mph crashed into several vehicles near the town of Sierra Vista, leaving a horrific scene of carnage. The aliens were trying to escape police after they had run a stop sign, and the truck rammed into a line of nine vehicles waiting for a turn light near Fort Huachuca.

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Little Madelyn Cumpston is sitting next to a statue of her older sister Annie, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Six-year-old Annie was struck and killed in downtown Baltimore as she and her family were leaving the circus March 22. At school, Annie Cumpston was active in dance and gymnastics. But as the family left the circus, even holding her mom's hand couldn't save her from being struck by a truck driven by illegal alien Guillermo Diaz when it veered into the crosswalk. She died later that evening at the hospital.
    After striking the little girl, Diaz drove off. Witness Ryan Jones tried to stop the fleeing Diaz, Jones became caught on the door of the truck and was dragged for a distance. When Diaz was arrested, he did not have a driver's license, the tags on the truck were expired and his blood-alcohol level was 0.07 percent, just below the state limit of 0.08. Diaz has been in the United States illegally for four years doing construction work. At sentencing in early October, Diaz received 10 years in prison but is eligible for parole in just two years.

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Edgar Vasquez-Hernandez is facing only a few decades in prison for destroying a young family, killing father Shawn Marti (24) and baby Sage (5 months), and putting mother Natalie into a coma for two weeks. According to court records, Vasquez-Hernandez was driving drunk and drinking Mad Dog 20/20 wine in his pickup. The degree of intoxication has not yet been released, but it must have been substantial judging by descriptions of the accident: the accident occurred when he drove his truck eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 84, resulting in the horrific head-on crash.

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Officer Will Seuis a motorcycle patrolman in Oakland, California, was killed on his ride home by an illegal alien. Fortunately some witnesses on the highway immediately phoned 911 and the accused hit-and-run driver, Carlos Mares, was quickly caught. Mares was driving his truck with a commercial load.
    A sixteen-year veteran of the Police Department, Officer Seuis was remembered at his funeral as a hard-working cop who had received 33 letters of appreciation from citizens, including one from a motorist he had ticketed. He had been in traffic enforcement since 1998, and was a member of the department's 20-member precision motorcycle drill team. Seuis left a wife, Michelle, and two daughters.
    The accused killer has a history of traffic convictions. It's curious that illegal alien Mares has his own business, Mares Trucking.

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State Policies that Turn a Blind Eye to Illegal Immigration Kill Marine and Companion
It was Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano who killed Marine Corporal Brian Mathews, who had recently served an eight-month stint in Iraq, and Jennifer Bower on a Maryland highway on Thanksgiving night, but it was the willful policies of two states — North Carolina and Maryland — that put the murder weapon in Morales-Soriano’s hands. The weapon was a Nissan Sentra that Morales-Soriano was driving with a blood alcohol level of .32 — the highest level that the Chesapeake regional director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving has ever heard of.

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Jonathan Narvaez-Pena, 22, of Bell Road was jailed in lieu of a $2 million bond for allegedly causing a collision of six vehicles that resulted in the deaths of a south Nashville father and his 2-year-old son, according to a department media release.
"Witnesses reported Narvaez-Pena was driving his Buick Park Avenue recklessly by speeding and running red lights as he traveled outbound on Murfreesboro Pike," authorities said. "He ran the red light at the Murfreesboro Road-Bell Road intersection and collided into the driver's side of a Ford Contour that was turning left onto Murfreesboro Road."
Antoine Bumvu, 43, and his son Eddy were killed in the accident, according to police. Bumvu's wife, Josephine, 40, and his 6-month-old son, Tony, were seriously injured. Narvaez-Pena and a 2-year-old daughter, Hillary Narvaez, received noncritical injuries in the accident. Eleven people were transported to area hospitals, according to authorities.
Narvaez-Pena "admitted to officers that he had consumed multiple shots of tequila prior to the collision," authorities said. Investigators listed alcohol, speed and the running of a red light as the contributing factors to the fatal crash.

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Eighteen-year-old Tricia Taylor of Detroit was in court in December 2002 to hear the plea of the illegal alien who caused her to lose both legs above the knees. Jose Carcamo was driving under the influence (.08 percent blood alcohol level) and speeding when he drove over a curb and smashed Taylor into a wall. One report stated that Carcamo has had 17 violations since 1995. Another noted that he was drag racing at the time of the crash. It is agreed that the car was travelling between 50 and 75 miles per hour on a street posted for 25 mph. Taylor's companion Noah Menard suffered a fractured skull and collarbone, as well as requiring eight pins to reconstruct his mangled elbow. The INS had twice begun deportation proceeding against Carcamo to return him to El Salvador, but regrettably did not follow through. Carcamo will be out of jail in a few years, but Tricia Taylor faces a lifetime of pain and disability because of another failure of the INS to remove a dangerous alien. Incidentally, drinking to excess and then driving is celebrated in Hispanic cultures rather than condemned. Sentencing Update: On January 13, 2003 Jose Carcamo was sentenced to 3-5 years in prison. Four months after the crash, Tricia Taylor still must take pain medication, antibiotics, anti-depressants and sleeping pills. Chronic bone infection means she may yet lose more of her right leg. Carcamo sent a note of apology to Taylor and Menard, but misspelled the names. She responded, "It hurts me every time I see him. He acts like he's sorry, but you'd think he would know our names." She is not forgiving, either: "I have my whole life with no legs ... I'm only 18. He gets no forgiveness."

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Federal and local authorities are trying to figure out how an illegal immigrant from Mexico managed to avoid deportation despite being arrested more than a dozen times in the past five years, agency officials said Thursday. Gustavo Reyes Garcia, 28, has accumulated dozens of criminal charges and been arrested 14 times in Nashville without being flagged by federal authorities for being in the country illegally. He caught their attention after he was accused of killing two people on June 8. It was his 15th arrest. Garcia’s past charges include four DUI arrests, evading arrest, and two separate incidents in which he was accused of leaving the scene of an accident where there was bodily injury. For the past two months Moreno worked as a cook at the Blackstone Brewery restaurant on West End Avenue. According to the manager, he also went by a different name. Here illegally, identity thief and finally - a cold-blooded murderer, it’s a crime that Blackstone Brewery hired this illegal alien.

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The driver of a Ford Explorer, Julio Villasana, 33, was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, drunk driving, and leaving the scene of an accident. Villasana was driving the wrong direction when he ran into Charles Derrington riding on his motorcycle head on. The wreck threw Derrington off of his motorcycle and into the median. Derrington later died. Villasana jumped out of his truck and tried to run away. Police officers were finally able to arrest him. Villasana has been deported from the United States before, and there is no record of permission for him to be here. The victim in the motorcycle crash was a well-known mandolin maker.

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In July of 2004, a young man on a motorcycle was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Thornton, Colorado. The illegal alien who was arrested for that crime had six prior arrests since 1996, but no court or police authority in Adams County or Boulder County asked for him to be deported. The number of similar cases in Colorado, where a violent crime has been committed by an illegal alien with a prior Colorado arrest record, is unknown.

The suspect being sought in the May 2005 shooting death of a Denver police officer is an illegal alien who had been stopped three times previously for traffic violations and appeared in court twice, but was never reported to ICE for deportation. The suspect worked illegally in a restaurant whose part owner is the Mayor of Denver.
Source: Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform

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Officer Michael Gordon lost his life to a drunk driving illegal alien. The Chicago policeman was in the driver's seat of his squad car when it was struck by Luis Calle, a Guatemalan whose blood alcohol level was 0.177, twice the legal limit. Another officer, John Delcason, sustained injuries and was in fair condition in the hospital a few days after the incident. Luis Calle died a few hours after striking the police car.
    Michael Gordon is survived by his wife and four children. Several of his relatives have also been police officers, including his father, brother, uncle and cousin. Before entering the police department, Gordon joined the 81st Airborne right after high school, serving in Bosnia and Korea. As a policeman, he asked to be assigned to a tough part of Chicago because he wanted to do more than just write tickets.

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A man with multiple drunken driving convictions who is now accused of plowing into and killing another driver in Ramona, CA this week was in court Thursday to respond to six criminal charges, including murder and drunken driving charges. Rafael Ramirez Perez, who had been deported to Mexico earlier this year, faces six counts associated with the Tuesday evening head-on collision that killed 22-year-old Amy Marie Kortlang of Ramona and injured four people, including Perez. Police said Perez fled from the scene after the 8:50 p.m. crash, which was in a dark area south of Mussey Grade Road. The 22-year-old Perez could face life in prison if convicted of murder. Other charges he faces include vehicular manslaughter, driving without a license and driving while drunk —- with the enhancement of at least three drunken driving convictions within the last 10 years.

On 14 September 2006, a day after our 23rd wedding anniversary, an illegal alien murdered my wife. She was driving to work at The Mountain Home Veterans Administration Hospital, Johnson City, Tennessee when she was forced off the road and struck by a pickup truck owned and registered to the assailant. After the collision, the man kicked his way out of the truck’s windshield and fled into the woods. Tracking dogs found him two hours later…about the time I watched, in horror, as our local volunteer firemen, our neighbors, finally extracted my wife’s broken and lifeless body from her car. She was the reason I drew breath every day. In my opinion, thousands are complicit in the murder; all three branches of our federal government, agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the clerk who issued vehicle registration and tags without a license or insurance and who knows how many others that didn’t do their job. The illegal from Mexico was simply the tip of the spear. I will add that five years ago I was similarly struck and almost killed by an illegal alien who fled the area and all responsibility and that my wife was the third fatality suffered by this small mountain community under similar circumstances in the last two years. The local District Attorney calls this rate of fatalities caused by illegals an epidemic. I’ve listened to the immigration/alien invasion debate rage on ad-nauseam, but I’ve yet to hear this angle on the problem. How many other families have been similarly affected? Given that there may be as many as 15 - 20 million illegals driving around without licenses or insurance, what is the emotional and financial burden incurred by our citizens by those whom enjoy the benefits of our society, yet take no responsibility in supporting it? Surely this is a story that warrants further investigation by the national media. I realize that I have a relatively higher standard of leadership than most. I simply cannot fathom, however, this total breakdown in accountability and responsibility. Surely to God we can at least make the clerks at the DMV do their job and have them check for valid operator’s licenses and insurance.
Donald Quade

    
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Louella Winton was severely injured when a van driven by a woman with no driving experience crashed through her house and into the house next door. Her neighbor said she heard the van and says the woman driving never slowed down. Mrs. Winton was still in bed when her house was hit and ended up under the van outside her house. She suffered four badly broken ribs, a collapsed lung, head trauma and she has since suffered a stroke. Yesterday, doctors told the family there is no hope of a recovery, and according to her wishes, she elected not to go on a ventilator. Vitalina Bautista Vargas entered a guilty plea in Criminal Court to vehicular homicide. She was given four years probation. Prosecutor Wood said federal officials insisted that she be deported. He said as a convicted felon, she will not be allowed to apply to re-enter the country for at least 10 years.

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On the day after New Years 2003, six-year-old Jose Soto was riding his bike around the parking lot near his parents' apartment house when he was struck and severely injured by a man backing out in a red truck. Witnesses were shocked when the man stopped and pulled the child from under the truck and roughly threw him aside before speeding off. At this writing, Jose is in critical condition in a Houston hospital and the perpetrator is believed to be on his way to Mexico, if not already there. The man's name was released a few days later: Jose Ines Morales. As noted above, once a criminal reaches Mexico, he has effectively eluded the law permanently, since America's southern neighbor refuses to extradite, as a matter of policy, criminals who may be punished according to the severity of their crimes.

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Christopher Shackleford, 19, was killed July 29, 2000, in Marietta, Georgia, by a drunk driver, an illegal alien whose blood alcohol was at twice the legal limit. Also killed were two other teenagers in the car — Julieanne Pascoe, 18, and Kelli Bourgeois, 19. Chris was an aspiring filmmaker, and was majoring in film at Georgia State University where he was a freshman.
    When Atlanta INS assistant district director Bart Szafnicki read about the deaths, he decided that more serious action against drunk driving illegal aliens was needed, and he began deportation proceedings against 64 such foreigners in his district. "I thought about how I would feel if it was my child," said Szafnicki. "Anyone who is arrested for DUI who is an illegal alien needs to go home. The native-born population in the U.S. has largely recognized the problem with DUI. But with the new influx of immigrants, I just don't think the word has filtered down."
    In May 2001, Sergio Montelongo-Sanchez, the drunk-driving illegal alien, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, DUI, reckless driving, possession of alcohol by a minor, and several other charges. For all that, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

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Amber Merkle was only 8 when she died in a four-car wreck May 1, caused by illegal alien Arturo Lupian. A third-grade student in Decatur Alabama, Amber lived for a few hours on life support until medical staff took her off because there was no evidence of brain activity. She had been on a Saturday afternoon outing of ice cream and fun with her aunt and cousin.
    The drunk driver Arturo Lupian had an elevated blood alcohol level of .11 at 2:30 in the afternoon when his vehicle slammed into the stopped SUV in which Amber was riding. (Alabama has a limit of .08.) There were no skid marks at the accident scene, so apparently Lupian didn't even try to stop. If convicted, he faces 2 to 20 years in prison for manslaughter.

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Samuel Avalos Gallardo is an escaped convict and illegal alien. Driving at three times the legal limit for blood alcohol, he drove in the wrong lane and struck head-on a car driven by 18-year-old Gary Selby, which killed him and severely injured his three passengers. One year later, in 1993, Gallardo was found guilty in the DUI death of Gary Selby and for the serious injury to the other passengers, for which Gallardo was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Because of a terrible mistake by the Nevada Department of Corrections, Gallardo was placed in minimum security incarceration despite being a dangerous criminal and someone who could easily escape to Mexico. He did escape after only six months in jail and remains at large. The Selby family still hopes that he will be recaptured to serve out his sentence to give them some peace of mind.

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Five-year-old Felix Leon was another another victim of a hit-and-run illegal alien on Sept. 29. The boy was struck and killed as he rode his bike near his home in Brownsville, Texas. Mexican national Carlos Jaramillo ran over the child with his pick-up and dragged the bike for about 40 yards, where passenger Domingo Acosta Lopez tried to remove the bicycle from the truck's undercarriage but could not. At that point, both Jaramillo and Lopez fled on foot. They were pursued by neighbor Leroy Redford who lives on little Felix's street, who was joined by others from the neighborhood. Lopez was caught then and Jaramillo was found two days later by police later hiding out in a local house, thanks to a tip.
    Both men who were arrested in the crime are illegal aliens who had been deported earlier. Police are investigating their possible connection with other crimes and whether drinking was involved in this hit and run.

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Nicolas Serrano-Villagrana, 32, was found guilty of three counts of felony DUI, causing substantial bodily harm and death for the crash that killed a 4-year-old boy, and injured his mother and another woman. Serrano-Villagrana has had two prior DUI-related arrests, and had a blood-alcohol content 2.5 times the legal limit and cocaine in his system at the time of the crash. Serrano-Villagrana is from Mexico. Las Vegas Sun, January 12, 2005, Serrano-Villagrana convicted in bus stop death

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A preliminary hearing will be held Sept. 7 for Luis Oscar Garcia, 24, who was allegedly driving under the influence and without a license in a wreck that killed 18-year-old James F. Rogers Jr. of Jackson about 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a police report. Garcia, who is from Mexico, used an interpreter at the arraignment this morning. He said he has been in the United States for three years working as a carpenter. He said he does not have a green card.  Garcia was speeding north on the U.S. 45 Bypass in a 1995 Chevrolet S10 pickup when he went through a red light at the Oil Well Road intersection, colliding with a 1995 Honda Civic driven by Rogers.

      
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Police have called it one of the most bizarre cases in recent memory: A man living in his married lover's closet is discovered, then fatally beats and strangles her husband in their home. As the murder trial begins in the death of 44-year-old businessman Jeffrey Freeman, prosecutors and defense attorneys each face complications that experts say make the outcome of the case impossible to predict. Convictions could mean life in prison for Freeman's wife, Martha, and the man she said she was having an affair with, Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez. Martha Freeman, 41, testified during a preliminary hearing last year that Rocha-Perez had lived for a month in the closet of a spare bedroom in her home. On April 10, 2005, she said, her husband followed the sound of snoring and confronted the woman and her lover. Jeffrey Freeman said he was going for a walk and wanted Rocha-Perez gone by the time he returned, his wife told the court. But instead, Rocha-Perez, 36, waited until Freeman returned, then strangled and beat the man to death. At the time of that preliminary hearing, Martha Freeman had not yet been charged with a crime. Now that she also is a defendant in the case, her statements to authorities — or even her testimony during the televised preliminary hearing — cannot be used against Rocha-Perez unless she takes the stand. Attorneys commonly advise murder defendants against taking the stand, and without the wife's words, prosecutors face an uphill battle to prove their case. "It's a very difficult case for the state to prove given that the evidence that (Rocha-Perez) was living there or did anything was largely circumstantial, is my understanding," said lawyer David Raybin, who is not involved in the case. Both defendants have maintained their innocence. During this week's trial, jurors are expected to hear how the wife waited more than 16 hours before calling police to the couple's upscale home in the Mountain View subdivision of south Nashville, near Brentwood. Instead, authorities have said, she ran errands while her husband lay dead on the floor in an upstairs bathroom. Jurors also probably will learn of the evidence police found at the scene, including the contents of the closet: a TV, men's magazines, a Nintendo Game Boy, a foam mattress, food and other items. In recent months, investigators have said they are skeptical of Martha Freeman's account that the man had lived in her closet and suggested the scene had been staged to make it appear as if he had. The investigators have not said why they suspect Freeman would have made up the story. Rocha-Perez, a bricklayer who had an apartment in Murfreesboro, was arrested soon after police were called to the crime scene on April 11. At the time, he was in the country illegally from Mexico. "Martha Freeman has consistently stated she did not kill her husband, and that will be the position of her counsel throughout the trial," McGee said. In e-mails obtained by police after the crime, Martha Freeman said she was taking medicine for mental illness and compared her life to that of a character on "Desperate Housewives."  But despite the problems with the prosecution, acquittals in the case are far from assured, legal experts said. Picking jurors will be key in ensuring that the panel isn't unduly swayed by bias against Rocha-Perez's status as an illegal immigrant or Martha Freeman's documented history of marital infidelity. "I'm frankly concerned about his status … and I'm trusting that the jury is going to hold the state to its very high, very strict burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt in this case and not be biased against my client because of his immigration status," Strianse said. Controlling the jury's passions could be as important for defense attorneys as refuting the evidence, Raybin said. "I have several Hispanic clients, and I think that is a real issue right now," Raybin said. "People have extremely strong emotions about the immigration issue, and it is much deeper than what many people will say. "The sexual relationship between the man and this woman and the immigration thing are much bigger issues than this closet thing is concerned."

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Randy Burris died a hero, saving the lives of a young mother and her baby, as Randy pushed Heather Carlson's baby carriage from the path of a car careening out of control. A resident of Clarke County Georgia, Randy was the father of three children and had struck up a conversation with Heather about her dog. The murderous car was driven by a drunk illegal alien, Ricardo Arriaga-Gutierrez, whose blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit even several hours after the accident. After running Randy Burris down, Arriaga-Gutierrez fled the scene, hid the car in another county and went to a party to establish an alibi. Midway into the case, the prosecutor requested that bail be revoked because of the flight risk to Mexico, and the judge complied. Arriaga-Gutierrez must serve at least 90 percent of his 15-year sentence for vehicular homicide under current state guidelines, plus three years for leaving the scene of the accident and driving without a license. He is legally required to be deported at the time of his release.

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Gary Selby was killed when an illegal alien with a blood alcohol level at three times the legal limit, Samuel Avalos Gallardo, drove over the dividing line and struck head-on the car Gary was driving. The three passengers were all badly injured but recovered. Gary's death occurred in October of 1992 when he was just 18 years old and just a few months after he graduated from high school. He was the older of two sons, and is still terribly missed by his family.
   The drunk illegal alien, Samuel Avalos Gallardo, was arrested at the scene, tried and sentenced to 40 years for the death and injury he caused. Incredibly, the Nevada Department of Corrections wrongly placed Gallardo on a minimum security work detail, from which he escaped just six months into his sentence. Ten years later, this criminal is not behind bars where he belongs, but lives free somewhere. Gallardo's freedom remains a source of pain for Gary Selby's family, who still hope for the capture of the criminal and some justice.

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The sign in this photo reads, "I'm looking for Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, illegal alien driver who killed my son. Have you seen him?" The face hidden behind the sign is that of Kathy Inman, who lost her son Dustin when an illegal alien crashed into the Inman's car. Kathy, husband Billy and son Dustin were stopped at a traffic light when a car driven by Harrell-Gonzalez rear-ended their car at 62 miles per hour. Both adults were severely injured and couldn't attend their son's funeral. Kathy was permanently disabled and was put into a wheelchair. The perpetrator, Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, escaped from a hospital and was never even arrested. A Gilmer County (Georgia) grand jury indicted Gonzalez on charges of vehicular homicide and serious injury by a vehicle. He remains at large.
    The occasion which brought Kathy Inman out into the streets was the so-called "Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride," a caravan of buses demanding "rights" for illegal aliens. That's the crowd in the photo. Of course, real immigrants, the legal sort, have workplace protections just like the rest of us. Furthermore, illegal foreigners wrapping themselves in the civil rights movement is insulting to the real Freedom Riders of the 1960s, who worked for long-denied political rights for black Americans.