Thread: Three Die in Colorado in Preventable Wreck

Three Die in Colorado in Preventable Wreck
[Brenda Walker] @ 8:13 pm



There was a terrible crash in Aurora, Colorado, Thursday where a Chevy Suburban ran a red light and slammed a pickup which then smashed into an ice cream shop, killing three-year-old Marten Kudlis inside and two women in another vehicle. The accused driver, Francis Hernandez, is under an ICE hold, indicating his likely illegal status. He certainly fits the profile of an illegal foreigner since he has never had a legal driver’s license and possesses numerous aliases.

Hernandez had also been arrested at least 16 times before, making this tragedy an entirely preventable one had the Colorado police been more inquisitive about his citizenship. As we have learned from so many other cases, it doesn’t help to have laws on the books to deport if local politicians make sanctuary the policy for law enforcement.

The details of the case show a failure of public safety [ICE holds driver in crash, Denver Post, Sept 7, 2008]:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials sent a faxed detainer on Hernandez, 23, at 12:04 a.m. Saturday, indicating his U.S. citizenship is under question, according to Arapahoe County jail officials and federal authorities.

Hernandez has been arrested 16 times in five years in Colorado but apparently has never been deported, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.

On Friday, Aurora authorities had indicated they believed he was a U.S. citizen.

Hernandez had been arrested in Denver as recently as July 18 on a traffic stop and charged with numerous crimes, including resisting police, CBI records say. Had he been held on an ICE detainer at that time, he would have been jailed until his case was completed and his sentence served and then deported, a time-consuming process. [...]

But [Aurora police spokesman Lt. John Sopranuk] added that detectives could find no indication that he had ever held a driver’s license in California or Colorado.

Also according to CBI records, Hernandez, who has 11 aliases and two listed birth dates, has four listed birth places, including Mexico.

The little boy who was killed as he sat near the window of the Baskin-Robbins was the only child of an immigrant couple from Russia [Family grapples with 3-year-old's death, Summit Daily News, Sept 6, 2008].

[quote]“I loved him so much. He was my only child,â€

Drove by there saturdayand saw flowers and stuffed animals.....found out abut it today on Boyles 630 KHOW show where William Gheenhas been a quest....

Another ILLEGAL in Denver killed a guy standing on his front porch on September 1st.

Aurora, CO where this happened has been over run by illegal inthe last 14 years as I have posted here at ALIPAC. Illegals wereat the city council askinng for a day laborer center. Hell, some of them testifying in front of the councila nd the mayor even needed interpreters (illegals testifying at a city hearing?)

I am numb to it all anymore....makes you angry but these rotten politicians and the silly ICE. ICEhas a detention facility just 5 or 6 miles north of where this happened and just a few miiles north of where these iLLEGALS want their day laborer center.

What part of the word iLLEGAL do we not understand?

Illegal Immigrant Arrested 16 Times Murders Three
Mon, 09/08/2008 - 12:03 — Judicial Watch Blog

An illegal immigrant who had been arrested 16 times by seven different local police departments throughout Colorado was allowed to remain in the U.S. long enough to murder two women and a toddler over the weekend.

In a tragic case that mirrors so many others nationwide, local authorities failed to collaborate with federal immigration officials to rid the country of a violent illegal immigrant who should have been deported years ago. This time, the negligence involved local police in at least one city—Denver—that officially and proudly provides sanctuary to illegal aliens.

The murderer (Francis Hernandez) in this case has 11 aliases and a lengthy criminal record. He was a fugitive with multiple warrants for his arrest when he ran a red light and slammed his sports utility vehicle into a pickup truck occupied by two women. The violent impact pushed the truck more than 100 feet into a nearby ice cream shop. A 3-year-old boy, eating ice cream, was killed and so were the women in the pickup.

Police say the illegal immigrant had been driving erratically and ran a red light at a busy intersection in Aurora Colorado. It took the brutal and senseless murders of three innocent people to finally get U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain this illegal alien. Besides Denver, he had previously been arrested by police in Longmont, Aurora, Westminster, Lakewood, Broomfield and Boulder. Evidently, none bothered to contact immigration authorities.

This outrageous lack of cooperation between local and federal authorities has allowed illegal immigrants with criminal histories to remain in the country and victimize innocent Americans throughout the nation. Most recently, a violent gang banger from El Salvador with two previous felony convictions murdered a man and his two sons in San Francisco.

Other tragic examples of criminal illegal aliens who didn't get deported include cop murderers, child rapists and drunken drivers who have killed American families on U.S. highways. In all of the cases the offenders had multiple encounters with local police but were never asked about their immigration status.

That’s because many local law enforcement agencies from coast-to-coast have policies—some official and others unspoken—that forbid officers from inquiring about a suspect’s immigration status. In fact, only 55 of nearly 20,000 local law enforcement agencies across the nation have bothered to sign agreements to coordinate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deal with illegal immigrant encounters in their communities.

Local officials say that playing a role in immigration enforcement would create accusations of racial profiling and cause their departments to lose the trust of immigrant communities. Immigrants would be reluctant to report crimes out of fear they will be deported, the local officials say. In the meantime they are allowed to murder, rape and assault Americans.
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