Other accidents involving vehicles carrying illegal immigrants:
March 12, 2005: Two immigrants die when a pickup smuggling 14 people crashes in Mineral County.
Jan. 27, 2004: Six die in a rollover accident on I-76 in Weld County.
July 17, 2003: One killed and seven injured when a smuggler crashes a minivan on I-70 in Lincoln County.
July 10, 2002: One killed and four injured when a van crashes 20 miles south of Alamosa.
March 24, 2002: 28 immigrants involved in separate accidents on I-70 and U.S. 34.
March 14, 2002: Two killed when a Ford Escort slides on a patch of ice in Broomfield.
March 11, 2002: A Mexican national killed and four injured when the minivan he was in rear-ends a trash truck being towed on I-70 near Golden.
April 21, 2001: No serious injuries when a truck transporting 11 illegal immigrants is in an accident in Grand Junction; the driver flees.
March 12, 2001: Six passengers killed and 13 injured when a van carrying 19 people from Mexico is hit by a tractor-trailer on I-76 in Sedgwick County.
Jan. 22, 2000: Three killed and eight injured when a van packed with 18 Mexican nationals crashes east of Walsenburg.
This is just Colorado, folks.
Again or is this the same story three days later?
Sounds like a good start!
"It's a tragedy," Baca said. "They are uneducated people who cannot begin to understand the complexity of our immigration laws. They are low-income workers who are coming to the United States to try to fuel our economy."
hahahahaha I couldn't *gasp* read any further for laughing..........
/Bush's fault. /s
That's nice. They can come here legally and do it. Until then, if they're working here illegally, the employers should be heavily fined or jailed and the employees should be deported to their country of origin immediately, with the bill sent to the country of origin. Period. Full stop. Then, and only then, will we begin to get a handle on this problem.
}:-)4
"The federal government does little to detain and deport illegal immigrants smuggled into the Colorado, in part because of a lack of resources and overworked staffs, said Michael Acree, deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety. "
The only reason this is in the news because of the snow, leading to the wrecks. Otherwise, the daily invasion continues at full flood, barely noticed.
Out here in San Diego County, these horrible crashes occur once or twice a week, every week. For every crash we read about, how many 100s of truck and van loads of criminal invaders make it through?
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
July 17, 2003: One killed and seven injured when a smuggler crashes a minivan on I-70 in Lincoln County.
July 10, 2002: One killed and four injured when a van crashes 20 miles south of Alamosa.
etc.
etc
etc
Is there any way we can compile this list is cost of EMC services/hospital/doctor costs, paid by you and me?
"It's unfair to label them anything other than what they are . . . ."
It is if they are Muslims in the subways.
Just causing the accidents that Americans won't cause...