When a person is bagged by police for drunk driving and needs an interpreter to understand what’s being said, it’s not racial profiling to ask his or her immigration status.
It’s common sense.
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Illegal Immigration Hit Close To Home
You may not agree with the wall. You may loathe the president. But this is a crisis.
Bob Menendez Says DUI is Not a Crime
We’re stuck with homegrown hairballs who drive drunk. But we shouldn’t have to tolerate intoxicated illegal immigrants on our highways.
Immigration Status Does Matter
It’s true that most drunken drivers in the United States are Americans. We’re stuck with these homegrown hairballs. But there’s no reason we should be dealing with repeat offenders who are here illegally.
It Has To Be One Strike, You're Gone For Those Here Illegally
It was bad enough that Ramos was in the U.S. illegally. Worse was news that he'd been arrested earlier and never asked about his immigration status.
The inconvenient truth is that if Ramos had been unceremoniously tossed out of the country after his first brush with American law enforcement Tessa and Ali would still be alive.
Ten Years Gone
The accident was in the headlines for weeks. At first, simply because two innocent teens waiting for a traffic light to turn green had been killed by a speeding drunk who never applied his brakes.
Later, the stories took a different turn when it was discovered that not only did 22-year-old Alfredo Ramos plowed into Kunhardt’s car at more than 65 mph, but that he was what was then called an “illegal immigrant” – a term most newspapers have abandoned in favor of unwieldy euphemisms.