DON’T BLAME ILLEGALS

I am starting a new file here at The Pink Flamingo.  From now on, to counter our precious little extreme anti-immigration propaganda, I am going to start listing horrific crimes that illegal immigrants do not commit.  It is ugly and it is tacky, but I think the anti-immigration folks need to be sent to their little corners for a time out so they can get a grip.  

The bottom line is the fact that bad things happen to good people.  That’s the horror of life.  Rarely are illegal aliens involved.  To continue to promote the fact that there are is just plain wrong.  These are story-lines I somehow doubt our staunch, anti-immigration conservatives are going to cover. 

1.  September 11, 2007 – Williams, AZ
A teen-ager on the way to school lost control of his car, killing 5 passengers all on the way to school.  Evidently no alchahol was involved in the accident, nor were illegal invaders any-where near the scene.
“…Killed were the driver, Matthew Dent, 20, and passengers Elena Rivera, 15, Prescott McDaniel, 16, and Jesse Buchmoyer, 21, all of Williams. Also killed was Matthew Small, 18, of Claremont, Calif., whose family were part-time residents of this town of 3,500 just south of the Grand Canyon. Nixon said the driver was traveling “in great excess” of the 40 mph speed limit in the area. None of the passengers are thought to have been wearing seat belts. There was no indication that alcohol was involved, Nixon said, but routine toxicology tests will be conducted. The Arizona Department of Public Safety has taken over the accident investigation….’"

2.  September 11, 2007 – Charleston, WV
An African-American woman was held captive and tortured by 6 White men and women, tortured…
“Authorities said Tuesday they are considering hate crime charges in the case of a woman who was tortured while being held captive for at least a week, and they are investigating the possibility that she was lured by a man she met on the Internet. The victim was repeatedly called a racial slur while her captors sexually abused, beat and stabbed her, her mother said. Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 20-year-old black woman….Besides being sexually assaulted, the woman was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Her eyes were black and blue. The wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.

The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also had been choked with a cord, it alleges. One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint….Brewster, the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation. Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony. Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony. Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.  Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding...."

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