Thread: MN: IA bus driver arrested in Minnesota school tragedy

I just perused this thread again and I can't find it. I thought someone I heard or read that she worked for Jennie-O products. Maybe it was on Fox News. I know they mentioned it again at the 1/2 hours news segment.

Does anyone know if she worked at Jennie-O? IF so, we need to start a boycott of Jennie-O products.

The woman identified as Alianiss Nunez Morales, 23, is wheeled into her first court appearance by law enforcement officials Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at the Lyon County courthouse in Marshall, Minn. Morales, who immigration officials say is using an alias and is in the country illegally, was charged with four counts of criminal-vehicular homicide, running a stop sign and driving without a license in the Feb. 19, 2008 crash with a school bus that killed four students near Cottonwood, Minn.
(AP Photo/St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jean Pieri)

Who is the other Alianiss Nunez Morales?
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio,
Ambar Espinoza, Minnesota Public Radio
February 23, 2008
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Authorities say the woman charged with killing four children in a fatal bus crash is living in the country illegally and using someone else's identity. They did not identify the other Alianiss Nunez Morales. But documents indicate there's a woman in Connecticut of the same age with the same uncommon name. She's apparently from Puerto Rico, a leading source of stolen identities.

St. Paul, Minn. — A public records search turned up a 23-year-old woman named Alianiss Nunez Morales in Chester, Connecticut. The records indicate her Social Security card was issued in Puerto Rico.

Alianiss is not a common name. Two Spanish linguistics professors contacted for this story say they've never heard of it. They say it could be a name created by parents.


Van driverFriday the prosecutor in the Cottonwood case said immigration officials went to Puerto Rico to talk to the grandmother of a person named Alianiss Nunez Morales. They showed her a mug shot of the woman now sitting in the Lyon County jail.

"He showed me an ID with the picture of a dark woman with dark eyes," says the grandmother, Alejandrina Correra. "And he asked me if that was Alianiss, and I said, 'No, that's not Alianiss. Alianiss is blonde with green eyes.'"

Correra told Minnesota Public Radio she raised Alianiss from the age of 1 after her parents died. Correra doesn't know where her granddaughter lives, only that she moved to the continental U.S. with her two daughters and a friend. She doesn't know her granddaughter's phone number and doesn't have a way to make contact.

He showed me an ID with the picture of a dark woman with dark eyes, and he asked me if that was Alianiss, and I said, 'No, that's not Alianiss. Alianiss is blonde with green eyes.'"
- Alejandrina Correra of Puerto Rico, grandmother of a woman named Alianiss Nunez MoralesThe grandmother said the investigator who came to her door said Alianiss had apparently lost some documents and that another person used them.

The Web site MySpace has a page belonging to an Alianiss Nunez who lives in the same Connecticut town, Chester. She lists her age as 23 and describes herself as a single mom from Puerto Rico who likes soap operas.

In photographs, the woman partially fits the grandmother's description. Her eyes are green, but her hair is brown, not blond. The page is decorated with pink fairies. This Alianiss says she wants to give her two children opportunities she never had.

We received no response to several emails to the MySpace account. Outside of Puerto Rico, there is no working listed phone number for Alianiss Morales in the U.S.

Authorities won't say if there's any link between the Alianiss in Connecticut and the woman who drove a mini-van into the school bus in southwestern Minnesota on Tuesday.

That woman told officers she lives in a Minneota trailer and is originally from Mexico. She was driving without a license. Authorities say she has been uncooperative in revealing her true identity.

Immigration officials haven't said for sure whether this is a case of identity theft. But Puerto Rico is a big source of fake documents for illegal immigrants in the United States.

Tim Counts with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wouldn't give any specifics on the Morales case. But he did say identities from Puerto Rico are highly sought in the underground identity trade.

"Many times illegal aliens will assume the identity of a Puerto Rican U.S. citizen because of the commonality in the language and will use that identity. It's difficult to say exactly how it happens, how those identities are channeled here, but we do find that's a fairly common occurrence," he says.

In 2006, a Worthington man was indicted on charges that he was selling Puerto Rican birth certificates and Social Security cards to illegal immigrants in search of work.

Authorities say sometimes the identities are stolen. In other cases, the true owners of the identities will sell their documentation for a few hundred dollars to illegal immigrants or document dealers.

"The reason Puerto Rican birth certificates are so valued in the community is that enables the person to claim they're a United States citizen," says Mark Cangemi, a former ICE special agent who now works as an attorney focusing on immigration issues. He says illegal immigrants can buy packets of Puerto Rican documents that he calls "legitimate paper."

"And what I mean by that are legitimate Puerto Rican birth certificates that have the appropriate biographical data, with a supporting Social Security number issued to that individual. These packets were being sent to Worthington and other areas in that part of the state and being sold for upwards of $1,700 a package," Cangemi says.

Speaking generally about stolen-identity cases, Cangemi says officials must thoroughly investigate a suspect's background. He says while all of a suspect's documents may be consistent with one another, it still doesn't prove that's the person's true identity.

Investigators will ask where someone went to school, and for parents' names, and will interview neighbors. Then they'll compare what they've learned to information in federal government databases.

"There's a lot of information that can be verified, and with some effort, you can determine whether the person is the rightful holder of that identity. Or if not, you can establish that that is not the person to whom the identity was issued. But it still does not tell you who that person is," Cangemi says.

Investigators apparently will need to consider the possibility there are two women who share the name of Alianiss Nunez Morales--one in Connecticut, and one in the Lyon County jail.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... /identity/

The open borders politicians who could have prevented the tragic deaths and injuries of those children in Mn. simply by enforcing the law, obviously, they have the blood of the innocent victims on their hands. As well, they have the blood of all innocent Americans who fall victim to an illegal alien on their hands. Then having said this, what do Americans do? Americans go to the polls in the presidential primaries and choose ALL open borders politicians. I don't get it. How can this happen? Are the majority of the American sheeple really that STUPID or are the elections RIGGED? Something doesn't add up here.

God bless and help the families and the victims in this tragedy and God bless and help America.

Originally Posted by Gogo

I just perused this thread again and I can't find it. I thought someone I heard or read that she worked for Jennie-O products. Maybe it was on Fox News. I know they mentioned it again at the 1/2 hours news segment.

Does anyone know if she worked at Jennie-O? IF so, we need to start a boycott of Jennie-O products.

Roger Hedgecock said on his radio show that Alianiss Nunez Morales worked for
HORMEL FOODS

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http://www.therogerhedgecockshow.com/au ... 23_9am.mp3

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Counts said the van driver told investigators she was from Mexico, but little else.

"She was minimally helpful to our agents," he said.

The name Alianiss N. Morales has turned up in public records across southwest Minnesota. Twenty-three-year-old Morales:

-- Was ticketed for a traffic incident in Montevideo in May 2006.

-- Lived in Montevideo in 2006, according to a state ID card in her name.

-- Worked at Jennie-O Turkey Store in Willmar in late 2007, according to the company.

-- Worked at Norcraft Cabinetry in Cottonwood, according to her own testimony.

-- Lived in a Minneota mobile home, according to her and neighbors.
On Friday, a Minneota squad car barred reporters from knocking on the door of mobile home No. 4 in Van's Trailer Park, where neighbors said the woman had moved a couple of weeks ago.

"I've seen her a couple of times," Mackenzie Kraus said. "She kept quiet."

Another neighbor said she heard the woman lived with a boyfriend, but she had never seen him.

Pete Van Vooren, owner of the 26-home park, said the woman was subletting her trailer from a Cottonwood resident.

"My understanding was that she had a husband or a boyfriend or something," he said. "I didn't even know the name of the people living there until all this happened."

She also is reported to have lived in Cottonwood.

A spokesman for Norcraft in Cottonwood did not confirm or deny that an Alianiss Morales worked in the cabinetry plant.

A May 2006 traffic ticket issued to an Alianiss Morales in Montevideo describes a woman who "looks like she does not know how to drive" maneuvering through a lawn. An officer issued her a ticket for not having a driver's license.

At her first court appearance Friday in Lyon County, the van driver talked of having family in the region, including an aunt.

Her attorney, Manuel Guerrero, of St. Paul, said he had been retained by the van driver's sister.

Immigration officials would not say whether they had talked to any of the van driver's relatives.

An acquaintance from Jennie-O said the woman he worked with was nice, friendly and religious.

"I only know her as Alianiss," said Carlos Hiraldo, of Montevideo.

John Brewer can be reached at 651-228-2093 or at jbrewer@pioneerpress.com.

http://www.twincities.com/ci_8339968

A May 2006 traffic ticket issued to an Alianiss Morales in Montevideo describes a woman who "looks like she does not know how to drive" maneuvering through a lawn

Ah, H-E-L-L-O!!!! When you are 'maneuvering through a lawn' that is usually a pretty darn good indicator that the skills (or motivations) of the driver might be called into question... Duh!

Thanks Skip

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I just sent my email to the Honorable Sen. Norm Coleman. Sen. Coleman can be contacted here:

http://coleman.senate.gov/public/index. ... ontactForm

Here is what I sent the Senator:

Honorable Sen. Coleman,

After hearing about the recent tragic deaths of several Minnesota elementary students, I, as I know all Americans, would like to express my deepest sympathy to the parents of the victims and also to the citizens of Minnesota.

It is always tragic to loose loved ones and especially tragic to loose children with so much potential.

I am pleading with you to help eliminate the senseless loss of life that is perpetrated by individuals that have no legal right to be in our country.
The policy of cities like Minneapolis/St. Paul to declare themselves, as "Sanctuary Cities" or havens for Illegal Activities must be stopped.
The citizens of the United States of America expect our laws to be followed and expect our elected officials to enforce these laws.

I would demand that ALL federal funding be withheld from these Sanctuary Cities until the time that these cities enforce ALL federal laws.
I would also encourage the families of victims of these preventable crimes by illegal aliens to sue the Sanctuary Cities in all courts available to them.
I hope and pray that you Sir would lead in the enforcement of All laws and in obtaining any compensation due to the victims and their families.

I would like to encourage everyone to email either this or their own words to Sen. Coleman

http://www.topix.com/news/immigration/2 ... 4#lastPost

This letter is a good idea.