Thread: ACTRESS-SLAY SPURS PROTEST OVER ILLEGALS

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11292006/ne ... enezia.htm

By TODD VENEZIA
ADRIENNE SHELLY

Murdered in Village.November 29, 2006 -- A group of activists is trying to make slain indie film actress Adrienne Shelly the poster girl for an immigration crackdown, as they hold a memorial for her tonight outside the Greenwich Village building where she was killed by an illegal alien last month.

Shelly was allegedly beaten to death and hung from a shower rod - in a sloppy attempt to make the death look like suicide - by Diego Pillco, an Ecuador native who is in the United States illegally.

Pillco had been doing some construction work at the Abingdon Square building where Shelly kept an office.

Pillco arrived in the United States from his hometown of Cuenca in the summer of 2005 thanks to smugglers whom he paid $12,000 to sneak him over the Mexican border, law-enforcement sources said.

The activists said her death could have been avoided if the United States stringently enforced its immigration laws to stop human smuggling and the hiring of illegal workers.

"Currently, it's against the law to hire an illegal alien," said Joanna Marzullo, a spokeswoman for New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement. "So Diego shouldn't have been working and the employer committed a crime."

Marzullo said she expects about 20 people to attend the memorial and vigil outside 15 Abingdon Square at 5:30 p.m.

"We are deeply sorry that Adrienne had to die as a casualty of our federal government's failure to enforce immigration law," the group said in a flier for the event - which featured a large picture of Shelly.

Marzullo said that her group had not been able to reach any of her family, to see how they felt about her image and name being used for this cause.

Shelly's husband, Andrew Ostroy, is a liberal Democratic blogger and radio-show host. He has written little about immigration. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Marzullo, who said she comes from a family of Hispanic immigrants, said she believes the issue of strictly enforcing immigration laws transcends party lines.

"I'm a registered Democrat," she said. "I don't believe in packaging my politics."

"My heart goes out to her family, her husband, and her 3-year-old daughter who will grow up never knowing her mother."

todd.venezia@nypost.com

That is very sad, just as it is very sad when any American citizen or visitor to the United States is killed by an illegal alien. If the number is 13 Americans killed each day that we know of, and the number may be higher....then it means that more Americans are being lost right here on U.S. soil everyday as a result of illegal immigration than the number of U.S. soldiers being killed in Iraq everyday.

It's like there a silent but deadly war being raged upon Americans right here on U.S. soil and those with the power to do something about it in Washington would prefer not to discuss it, let alone deal with it.

If it were not for all the American people, some even new legal immigrants to America standing up against illegal immigration, George Bush would still be making those "just good people" speeches. I firmly believe that he does not blink an eye when an illegal alien takes the life of an American or legal visitor to the U.S.. I do not think that it fazes him in the least.

What a sad day in America.

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

If the number is 13 Americans killed each day that we know of, and the number may be higher....then it means that more Americans are being lost right here on U.S. soil everyday as a result of illegal immigration than the number of U.S. soldiers being killed in Iraq everyday.

We alluded to that fact in our press release.

Thanks-by the way-go to Rep. Steve King, who's done phenomenal work on this issue. and was-IIRC-the first to point that out.

Hopefully, I'll be able to find more reports about the vigil we held earlier tonight in Greenwich Village.

as far as im conncerned iraq is less of an issue than Mexico's growing violence and our inability to control our immigration

Related story:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?S ... 2734-8890r

Move to new section for Americans killed by illegals.