Posted on 12/01/2018 5:40:06 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
SAN DIEGO— An attempt to smuggle immigrants into the country illegally ended with three people dead and eight seriously injured in a crash in a remote, rugged area of California near the Mexico border, authorities said.
The incident began Thursday afternoon when U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered tire tracks for several cars that ran from the international border north into th U.S. The agency calls such incidents "drive-throughs" — instances in which cars illegally enter the U.S., often through remote areas.
They found a piece of a vehicle that they recognized as likely being from a pickup truck spotted nearby 10 minutes later. Agents tried to stop the pickup, but it fled, entering and exiting Interstate 8 twice and weaving through traffic at speeds up to 100 mph, according to witnesses.
Agents then deployed a tire deflation device, and the truck lost control within a minute, crashing and rolling over.
California authorities say one woman and two men were killed in the crash on westbound I-8 about 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of San Diego.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Travis Garrow says a male driver and a female passenger were believed to be seated in the cab of the truck, and nine men were in the bed.
Authorities haven't identified anyone involved in the crash but said the driver could face vehicular manslaughter charges.
It's believed the illegal crossing happened near Campo, California. The Border Patrol released photos of steel fencing cut to allow enough space for a vehicle to pass through.
The crash occurred in a sparsely populated area of rugged oak- and chaparral-covered mountains on the main highway between San Diego and Arizona. Migrants typically walk across the border several miles south and hide in the boulders and brush for hours, even days, for smugglers to pick them up on the side of a paved rural road.
It is one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossings on California's border with Mexico. The Border Patrol uses motion and ground sensors as well as cameras, but it is still viewed by smugglers and migrants as a route with better chances of success than San Diego.
It wasn't immediately clear if any of the immigrants in the truck were involved in the migrant caravan from Central America, although the Border Patrol says that the ones who survived are all Mexicans.
Agency spokeswoman Takae Michael said the pickup was traveling with another car before agents spotted it. Agents later found that car abandoned in the driveway of a home, and they arrested 12 people who also were believed to be involved in smuggling.
The Border Patrol has been involved in several fatal pursuit crashes, including one in Texas this June in which five of 12 passengers in a car being chased by agents died. In March 2016, two people were killed while in a car that was fleeing Border Patrol agents on I-8 near Yuma.
Border Patrol policy states agents can only chase vehicles when the benefit outweighs any immediate danger of such pursuits. It also states that agents can use tire-deflating devices if a vehicle they're trying to stop fails to do so, but that agents should consider how safe it is to do so, like whether there are other cars around and what the area’s topography is.
The agency's vehicle pursuit policy was overhauled in the 1990s after a Border Patrol chase in California's Riverside County ended in a deadly crash near a high school. Four students and a father who was driving his son to school were killed.
Josiah Heyman, the director of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, said the Border Patrol's use of vehicle pursuits has been problematic.
He says agents aren't usually involved in chasing high-level criminals, but rather immigrants who, if they crossed illegally, would face a misdemeanor count of illegal entry or a felony one if they'd done so before.
Large numbers of immigrants are usually packed in cars when they're being smuggled and can't wear seatbelts, making a crash even more dangerous, Heyman said.
"It amplifies the dangerousness of this," Heyman said. "I think in all cases, vehicular pursuit is still a risky choice because the risk is not just to innocent bystanders, the risk is to the officer and the risk is to the people in the vehicle."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says its Office of Personal Responsibility is investigating the agent's response.
The driver of the car, a U.S. citizen, is in police custody.
Story from yesterday WORTH putting up again!
What if 3 American children were run over?
What would the MSM say then?
What happened to the “peaceful” caravan?
It’s an honor to live in a country where people are willing to DIE to get into it.
But these are not the pilgrims, or even the Italians and Irish coming over in cramped ships to build a new and better life.
Too many are MS13, maybe some terrorists thrown in, rapists, thieves, etc.
Like Trump said, some of them, I suppose, are good people.
That’s not enough of a reason to let them in.
They cut through a fence. Build a wall and it can’t be cut and no Mexicans will die. That’s a good thing.
That will stun ones bebber
BOO FREAKIN HOO!
“It’s an honor to live in a country where people are willing to DIE to get into it.”
It’s also an honor to have the right to stop them.
Amen brother!! :)
Well that will shorten Santa’s trip this year.
I can assure you, these people were not willing to die to get in. They thought the worst case was being caught.
Treat the seriously injured-— then take them BACK to the other side of the border.
I stand corrected.
It's an irony that the left hates this country and pretends to want to leave and NEVER do.
It sucks that the new parasite multiplying immigrant is just another replacement American and DNC vote.
What if? What if Congress had allocated the money for the wall, when POTUS requested it?
The wall might have been up in this section and those poor illegals may still be alive, today. As the RATs are so fond of saying, if we save just one life.......
Don’t give up hope yet my friend :)
We’re getting 30 percent of the Hispanic vote, which means likely 35.
Trump is sealing the border.
Like the Cubans when they came, the bad seeds will be locked up for good for doing something or other sooner or later and the ones who want to work will slowly turn R.
We couldn’t win the presidency in a generation, some Hispanic leaders said a few years ago.
We would be a PERMANENT minority in congress EVERYONE said a few years ago.
It ain’t over till it’s over :)
RATIONAL FOR ILLEGAL INSTEAD OF LEGAL IMMIGRATION
1- These Central American caravan members mainly want to have benefits of living in this country: which is not asylum requests
2- The caravan individuals said they will cross illegally without applying for asylum
3- .Perhaps illegal entrance to U.S is based on being legally inadmissible: One-third of migrants in caravan are being treated for health issues, Tijuana health official says: https://www.foxnews.com/world/caravan-migrants-suffer-from-respiratory-infections-tuberculosis-chickenpox-other-health-issues-tijuana-government-says
INFORMATION:
Anyone applying to visit or reside in U.S., whether on a temporary visa or a permanent green card, must prove that he or she does not present a health risk to the general public. These requirements are known as health-related grounds of inadmissibility.
You might not be allowed to enter or remain in the United States if you:
• have a communicable disease of public health significance
• lack required vaccinations
• have or have had a physical or mental disorder that causes you to engage in behavior that might be harmful to yourself or others, or
• have a history of drug abuse or addiction.
Even if you have never been diagnosed with an alcohol- or drug-related health issue, a record of alcohol- or drug-related arrests (a DUI, for instance) or criminal offenses can result in your being found inadmissible on health grounds.
https://fam.state.gov/fam/09fam/09fam030202.html
9 FAM 302.2 (U) INELIGIBILITY BASED ON HEALTH AND MEDICAL GROUNDS - INA 212(A)(1)
(U) INA 101(a)(51) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(51)); INA 212(a)(1) (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)); INA 212(a)(4) (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)); INA 212(d)(3)(A) (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(A)); INA 212(g) (8 U.S.C. 1182(g)); INA 221(c) (8 U.S.C.…
Aw, that's too bad.
How about them Chargers?!!
Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act:
A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act “dangerous to human life” that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism.
Penalty for Terrorism:
The maximum penalty is seven years’ imprisonment. Preparation of terrorist acts. prohibits anyone from engaging in any conduct in preparation for an intended act of terrorism. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment. And if the US military is forced to defend itself, force is authorized.
Caravan migrants are telling reporters that as their numbers reach 20,000, they plan to invade the United States using the highway at San Ysidro, and they will challenge US control over their border.
Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion;
This situation is the primary purpose underlying the construction of a federal government in the first place.
Not to “honor” one’s self, but to be proud of the fact.
Indebted even?
Cause a lot of men better than me died so this country could be that way.
That SUCKS!!
You only get one life and it’s cut short so that people you know and the VAST majority you don’t know, can live a long life of freedom.
Good Lord. What a sacrifice.
There’s what, 350 million Americans.
They average soldier may know a thousand people.
Everyone else whose lives he is saving is unknown to him.
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