Alleged DWI Claims Tiny Life (Illegal alien with NM drivers license)

They are powerful images. One is of an anguished young mother lying in a hospital bed holding her lifeless baby. The other is of the father, saying a prayer over the tiny boy just before handing him over to the Office of the Medical Examiner.

It was the only time Zach and Aileen Smith held their son, whom they named Dimitri after Aileen’s grandfather.

The child was born by Caesarean section in a Santa Fe hospital in an effort to save him, just hours after the Smiths were involved in a crash with an alleged drunk driver on June 10 on Interstate 25 in San Miguel County. Aileen was seven months pregnant at the time.

Ramon Hernandez, 43, of Las Vegas — who has at least four prior DWI convictions — appeared in court on Tuesday on charges of multiple offenses.

He was originally charged with felony DWI and causing injury to a pregnant woman. The latter charge was amended a few days later to vehicular homicide.

Aileen finds it hard to understand how — if Hernandez has immigration issues — he “can be in this country for that long … and have so many offenses and still be allowed in the country,” she said. “It’s a terrible failure of the system.”

I’m certainly not trying to suggest that illegals are the only drunk drivers on the roads, but it does seem that we have an inordinate amount of them here in NM. They cause a lot of injuries and deaths that could be avoided by simply having a government that takes its responsibility of protecting our borders and upholding our laws seriously. They are people that shouldn’t be here driving at all, much less here driving drunk. In addition to driving drunk, illegals aren’t known for having insurance. That was one of the excuses for giving them their Richardson licenses, so they could get insurance, and be responsible. No such luck with that plan.

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Whenever an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or something similar, here’s what I recommend:
What can we do about it? Here’s my standard post.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

Here’s what I’ve been pushing: it’s time to file Racketeering, Influencing, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuits.

RICO lawyers could turn it around in a few years and MAKE MONEY at the same time. I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

In the absence of enforcement, we can get the word out in the meantime that there is money to be made in filing RICO lawsuits against employers who hire illegal aliens like this jerk.

Employers would have no trouble shutting down the border if they could get sued by someone under the RICO statutes for hiring these people in the first place. The next time an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or somesuch thing, I’m going to point out that the victim’s family might be able to seek compensation from the employer under these statutes in the hopes that it would catch on. If this did catch on, would see such a swift backlash against illegal immigration that no employer would go near these people and they’ll all simply want to go back home.

I had already seen the whole picture earlier.

My blood is still boiling.

The primary sworn duty of every elected officer in this country is to protect the lives of the people.

The responsibility for this horror rests on virtually our entire political class, in both "major" parties.

Throw all the oath-breaking bums out. They have abdicated any legitimate right to govern us.

One of the primary charges leveled against King George III in the Declaration of Independence:

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

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