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June 17, 2007
Alejandra Gutierrez: Another Casualty of Our Unguarded Border
There's a price to be paid for bureaucrats' totally unacceptable refusal to defend the border. Alejandra Gutierrez is one who had to pay it.
Alejandra was raped and murdered at age 10 by Simon Rios, who afterwards dumped her body in an Indiana gravel pit. By pleading guilty, he has avoided the death penalty in this case, although he may yet get his just desserts for murdering his own wife and three children.
But some hold that Rios shouldn't be subject to capital punishment, because he is not an American citizen, but rather what our media is pleased to call an "undocumented worker." FortWayne.com gives a little background:
According to the U.S. Justice Department, more than 270,000 illegal aliens serve time behind bars every year, comprising about 17 percent of the population in federal prisons. And, over a five-year period, the Immigration and Naturalization Service released 35,000 criminal aliens instead of deporting them — and more than 11,000 of them went on to commit serious crimes, including 98 murders, 142 sexual assaults and 44 kidnappings. […]
[I]t is ironic, to say the least, to hear some argue he should not face the death penalty because he is a Mexican national, or that his confession should be thrown out because language barriers kept him from fully understanding his Miranda rights. It's a little like the proverbial grief-stricken orphan begging for mercy after having just killed his parents.
With millions of illegal immigrants already here, why have recent congressional attempts to craft a "comprehensive" solution failed? Simple: Because most Americans don't trust politicians to enforce new laws any more enthusiastically than they're enforcing existing laws. Until and unless our borders are secured, any immigration reform will rightly be seen as a joke, undermined by the left's thirst for new constituents and the right's hunger for cheap labor.
Anyone who objects risks being labeled a xenophobe or racist. But that kind of talk can get people killed. Alejandra Gutierrez would no doubt agree[…]
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 17, 2007 11:29 AM
Comments
Poor girl.
Posted by: Adam at June 18, 2007 6:12 AM
Hmmm... See the pattern here? Un-uniformed enemy combatants are entitled to all the protections of the Constitution. Someone who comes here illegally (and commits a crime) is not subject to punishment under our Constitutionally enumerated laws. Heads they win, tails we lose...
Posted by: M. Murcek at June 18, 2007 8:53 AM
I read an article on the "Voz de Aztlan" site some time ago which stated that child molestation was strictly a "white man" phenomenon. The only reason I mention this after reading the ugly story above is to say that this is what the La Raza, Mecha, etc. people are made of, and this is who the "Liberal" policy-makers want to call the shots on our borders. Poor little Alejandra is only one of many such victims that I know of; but when it is one of THEM who pulls it off, it is, by and large, hushed.
Posted by: Toa at June 18, 2007 5:34 PM
