Locally, the horrifying crash in Brewster is unleashing a wave of rage over illegal immigration. Police identified the drunken-driving suspect as an illegal immigrant who worked on a local horse farm. Apparently the horse farms are yet another industry that relies on undocumented labor, as we reported in The Journal News on Sunday.

The reader forums on our web site are boiling with comments about illegal immigrants, their employers, Hispanics and “Mayan savagesâ€