MSM Trivializes Another Illegal Immigrant Crime

The mainstream media have long been in bed with the left wing of the Democratic Party which is currently seeking to ram amnesty for illegal immigrants down the American throat. These are the same people who use hysterical headlines to support gun control every time some rare, isolated wacko decides to go on a murderous rampage.

But when another illegal immigrant commits one of thousands of annual serious crimes, they ignore it if they can. If they can't, they change the subject, and/or shout "racism." In my San Francisco Diary, I told you the story of the vicious little criminal who was not deported after a long series of crimes because the sanctuary city of St. Francis had a policy of not reporting illegals to the federal authorities unless and until they had been convicted of a felony. Since the little scumbag had only been convicted of misdemeanors and had only one felony charge pending, and was a minor to boot, he was not reported to immigration.

Upon his final release on minimal bail for his most recent felony arrest, the vicious predator lost no time in murdering a father and son in a very violent attack in a normally peaceful and law-abiding part of town. Only then did the press take notice of San Francisco's outrageous policy. The mayor, to his credit, ordered the police to report all illegal immigrant criminal arrests to ICE from that day forward. The utterly insane Board of Supervisors then countered the mayor's decision with a new and even more crazed murderer protection ordinance. That conflict has not been resolved to this day, but so far, the mayor has refused to back down.

Many of the thousands of crimes committed every year by illegal immigrants are ignored by the mainstream media, and many of those crimes are not as horrendous as the one I mentioned above. Still, some crimes just can't be hidden from the public. Last Friday, the Benedictine nuns (pictured above) from a Virginia monastery buried Sister Denise Mosier, who was killed by a drunk-driving illegal immigrant. Two other sisters are in a Virginia hospital in critical but stable condition as a result of the smashup. Like the little cutie from San Francisco, this illegal had been arrested for the same charge before. Unlike the other case, this bastard is an adult who already had two drunk driving convictions and multiple other alcohol-related offenses on his record.

Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia in 1996 racked up multiple arrests as a minor, and now at age 23, is a career criminal. Despite the two prior convictions for drunk driving, and pending deportation, Montano was allowed to go free as a bird after being told he must report back for his deportation hearing which was only weeks away. In addition, it is not as if the police had not reported him to the immigration authorities, and it is not as if the feds were unaware of his illegal status and dangerous propensities. Ignorance of the immigration status of criminals because of lax reporting by police is bad enough. But in this case, everybody who needed to know, knew. "Thank you very much, Carlos, and you will show up for your hearing, won't you?" Carlos was probably thinking "I'll drink to that."

One prosecutor has awakened to the danger. Prince William Commonwealth attorney Paul B. Ebert plans to ask a grand jury to charge Montano with second degree murder, upgraded from the original charge of involuntary manslaughter. That means the likelihood of a forty year sentence instead of the original ten. Virginia has not suffered from the illegal immigrant problem that the border states have been under siege with, but even there, 13% of drunk driving arrests involve illegals.

The reaction of the left and the amnesty proponents, supported by their claque in the mainstream media, has been totally predictable. The response to the huge ongoing problem of illegal immigrants and crime ranges from idiotic to completely bizarre. The charge of racism is practically a given at this point. That is done to avoid the much more complicated and relevant charge of being here illegally. But for those on the left who actually address that issue, the talking-point is well nigh universal. USA Today is just one of a hundred examples of the deceptive argument: "Do you care about the nationality of the drunk who killed someone you love?" That statement is a vile dodge. The answer is: "Yes, I do care, because if that murderer had not been here, my loved one wouldn't be dead." If there were 12 million blond-haired, blue-eyed Swedes here illegally, the irate reaction to them would be identical.

How the fact that more crimes are committed by citizens than illegal immigrants has anything to do with the argument is beyond logic. There are far more citizens than illegals, so of course they commit more crimes as a matter of simple mathematics. But the rate among citizens is far lower than that among illegals. And even if it weren't, wouldn't the reduction of thousands of serious injuries and deaths every year committed by illegals be worth the simple act of deporting them before they kill someone? And there's also the simple fact that being here without permission is a criminal act in itself, so the mindset is already there before the next criminal act is committed.

There's another aspect to this as well. The crime rate among illegals is so high, and there are so many of them because of lax enforcement and nonexistent border control, that the jails and prisons are grossly overcrowded. Not only do illegals benefit from early release and lax immigration enforcement, but our home-grown felons are benefiting as well. The only losers in this equation are the American people.