Posted on 09/20/2007 9:28:07 AM PDT by yorkie
The man who shot and killed a Phoenix police officer before he himself later was fatally shot by authorities was an illegal entrant, a federal official said Wednesday. Erik Jovani Martinez, 22, was in the country illegally last year when he was arrested and convicted on theft charges, said Vinnie Picard, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He said Martinez was deported on March 3 last year, and at some point re-entered the country illegally. Mayor Phil Gordon called Martinez a "poster child" for failed federal efforts to tighten border security. "I have a message for the federal government. Our officers are paying the price. This community is paying the price," Gordon said at a news conference. "When are you going to do your job and secure our borders?"
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But far be it from me to suggest that journalists are pursuing an agenda!
Mayor Phil Gordon called Martinez a "poster child" for failed federal efforts to tighten border security. "I have a message for the federal government. Our officers are paying the price. This community is paying the price," Gordon said at a news conference. "When are you going to do your job and secure our borders?"
It's bush's fault !
Most of Congress and President Bush have a few more drops of blood on their hands for their refusal to secure the borders of this country. This time that blood comes from a policeman.
Shame shame shame.
Hey Gringo, I got your immigration bill in this hand, and my Grande caramel machiato in the other hand!
I live in Phoenix, Phil Gordon is a left winger, the words out of his mouth dont match his actions regarding illegals
Yoy must be real proud Jorge Bush that you and your big business friends have been able to stall the wall for so long.....Why don’t you go down to Pheonix and explain to this officers family what he died for. Your answer of “open borders” should make them feel a lot better!
Can you say "NEVER?"
I was on jury duty the week of 12/11/06 and one of my fellow jurors told me that her nephew was killed a year earlier by two illegals DRIVING their truck with FAULTY BRAKES to the BRAKE SHOP to be repaired when – surprise, surprise -- the BRAKES FAILED AND THEY KILLED HER NEPHEW. I guess these MORONS thought they were back in Mexico where – in addition to driving DRUNK -- they and their idiot friends do crap like that all the time. Can you say "Tijuana Taxi?" Can you say "TOW TRUCK?"
The driver got 4 years in prison and will be deported when he gets out.
Gotta wonder how long it will take him to sneak back in and kill someone else?
Estimates indicate they are killing around 25 American citizens each day, either with vehicles or via other criminal activity.
I can’t wait until the interstates start filling up with Mexican truckers on tight deadlines – and I do mean DEADlines – hurtling at carloads of unsuspecting native-born American citizens – all 387 of us.
Do you suppose this crap might stop if one of Bush’s daughters became a victim?
Of course, unlike the rest of us, they are driven to their endless round of parties by an armed SS detail, which eliminates the risk that they will be tempted to drive drunk themselves or be mugged or raped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_zCpQZ-H94
What'll they think of next? There is no limit to Leftist newspeak and doublethink.
Anytime I hear of certain crimes in Phoenix, the first thing I ask myself is “Illegal”? I used to think that was the wrong way to think, but lately I don’t seem to be wrong.
>>the words out of his mouth dont match his actions regarding illegals<<
From watching him on the local affiliates this morning - he is outraged. Maybe this last killing opened his eyes to the realities of open borders. Wasn’t that the fifth officer killed in Phoenix in the last year, by an illegal? (I need to do some research on this, but that is what I have heard.)
“Mayor Phil Gordon called Martinez a “poster child” for failed federal efforts to tighten border security.
“I have a message for the federal government. Our officers are paying the price. This community is paying the price,” Gordon said at a news conference. “When are you going to do your job and secure our borders?”
I have a message for Mayor Phil.
When are you going to have ALL police officers do their job and arrest EVERY illegal alien they happen to come in contact with? When are you going to have all your local social services report EVERY illegal alien they come into contact with?
Make it a rule that illegal aliens must be reported by every city/couty, whatever, wroker and the problem will go away in Phoenix.
Mayor Phil has a duty too, don’t just blame it on the feds. Take some responsibility to make our country a better place.
Oh that's rich..........what happened to the ever popular "undocumented AMERICAN"?
Has the Bush Administration moved to prosecute the “authorities” who killed this unfortunate, undocumented entrant?
So, is this the guy that most of us suspected was illegal in the first place and we were criticized for *immigrant slander* on another thread?
ping
As Carlos Mencia (SP?) might say, are they in front of home depot? (Okay, I couldn’t resist)
L.O.L.....sounds like a horse at Santa Anita.
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