Posted on 08/04/2010 8:56:58 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
Bristow, Virginia (CNN) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered an investigation after a man who was in the United States illegally killed a nun in a car crash, authorities said.
Napolitano is trying determine why the man was still in the country because he had been arrested two previous times for drunken driving offenses.
The suspect, Carlos Montano, driving Sunday morning under the influence of alcohol, slammed head-on into three nuns in a Toyota sedan, police said. The three were just a few miles from a monastery in Bristow, Virginia, heading for their annual retreat. Sister Denise Mosier was killed instantly, and the other two remained hospitalized Tuesday.
The suspect has twice been in custody -- the first time, almost two years ago in October 2008 -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. But both times, Montano was released on his own recognizance pending deportation proceedings, because he was not convicted of a violent felony such as murder, rape, or robbery.
"He was in removal proceedings," Napolitano told CNN on Tuesday. "Why were the removal proceedings taking so long? I do not obviously as of today have the results of that, but I will get them."
Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, said he was furious with how immigration officials ...
"We identified him as an illegal alien, we told ICE that he had twice been convicted now of DUI's, that he posed a threat to the community," said Stewart. "And they turned around and they released him right back into the neighborhood."
County prosecutor Paul Ebert said Montano has previously been convicted twice for drunken driving, as well as reckless driving, speeding, and public drunkenness. He spent 20 days in jail in 2009.
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CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report.
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Oh joy...
The suspect, 23, has now been charged with involuntary manslaughter. It was unclear if he has retained a defense lawyer.
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I am sure we will be paying for the defense lawyer. The Wash Post had a boo-hoo story today about his illegal alien parents, bemoaning the fact that he wrecked their car.
INVESTIGATION is all DEMs do.....they do NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS.....or PREVENT PROBLEMS....they “Investigate” AFTER the fact. Job Security.
Of course Janet doesn't think the border needs to be "investigated".
She is just like 0bama, a failure.
The problem I have with Janet is that she would not have investigated this if it had not been plastered everywhere on the media. She should have wanted to investigate this a few days ago.
I didn't think you be less competent at anything else than you were as a governor but I was wrong.
Bring yer hanky...
Ugly Butch should order the rest of the deportees running around drunk Locked up.
A big ol’ pile o’ hankies, Nana.
Orwell would love it, a newspeak conundrum. They can't call him an "illegal alien" because that term has been forbidden, but they can't call him an "undocumented immigrant" either because we have been led to believe that such people are more wholesome than Ozzie and Harriet, therefore we can't have news stories about them killing nuns. So back to the word chest we go to assemble a new phrase.
Gee, Napolitano is shocked. This coming soon after her department’s memo about how immigration officials can slow play the system to keep illegal immigrants from being deported.
The immigration officials who kept releasing him were just following orders, doing all they can to keep illegal immigrants in the country.
This is nothing more than CYA opertion by Nap/Zero Admin.
This is nothing more than CYA opertion by Nap/Zero Admin.
It's simple, Congress and various Presidents have not seen fit to provide the will or way to secure our borders and protect America citizens from those who come here illegally, and commit serious crimes during the time they are not being identified and deported.
Janet “From Another Planet” Napolitano, is rapidly becoming the poster child for the bad choices made by this...ahem...Administration.
God help us survive this moron and minions.
Napolitano is trying determine why the man was still in the country because he had been arrested two previous times for drunken driving offenses.
Even if he was deported in 2008, what makes her think that he wouldn’t have made it back in by 2010?
SECURE THE BORDER!!!!!!
Because THAT IS YOUR POLICY jerk, release them on their own recognizance.... janet you and your cohorts killed that woman and many others ..their blood is on YOUR HANDS
Janet has ordered an investigation simply because the American public are more attuned to this story. About fifteen years back, we had a neighbor killed in a car accident by an illegal who was drunk. He missed two events he was looking forward to: his daughter’s high school graduation and his other daughter’s college graduation. He missed a wedding the following year and the birth of his first grandchild a year after that. The pain of his death was horrible for his family because they kept asking themselves, “why was this guy in our country?” If only.... Will Janet order an investigation on every homicide, rape, aggravated assault etc... done by illegals? Just a sham.
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