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Race Mayhem Highlights Hispanic Drunk Driving Problem
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Race; Posted on: 2008-06-05 14:14:47 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Alleged drunk driver kills one, injures ten at event
Juan Campos, 33, purportedly a US citizen from Brownsville, Texas, has made headlines with a spectacular crash that occurred when, allegedly drunk, he fell asleep at the wheel and plowed his car into a bike race inside Mexico near the US border. One bike rider died and ten were injured. Enraged survivors swarmed a police vehicle taking Campos from the scene, attempting to drag him out. Investigators claim that toxicology tests showed that Campos had alcohol in his system, and a female passenger in the Campos vehicle reportedly admitted that she had been drinking with Campos, who has since been charged. Campos himself told reporters at the jail in Spanish that he didn't remember much, but that he had been at a beach and had fallen asleep while driving.
The incident highlights the US epidemic of fatal accidents resulting from impaired Hispanic drivers, most of whom are illegal aliens and thus often unlicensed and without insurance. Hispanic impaired driving far outpaces the problem in other demographic groups; in North Carolina alone, Hispanic DUIs were three times the rate of non-Hispanics in 2005, and the trend is reflected all across the United States.
Some experts have claimed that the DUI problem has roots in Hispanic culture, and some Hispanics themselves claim that driving after a few drinks is "normal." Certainly the large number per capita of macho young males among the illegal alien population has some effect on the numbers, as well as the lawless mentality of people whose very presence in the United States flouts the law.
Like many other aspects of illegal immigration, the toll of illegal alien drunk driving is a "quality of life" issue never factored in to the various economic arguments advanced in favor of open borders. But the real cost has been devastating: whole families have been wiped out, men, women and children killed and the lives of survivors ruined by these heartbreaking, preventable tragedies.
The effect of Hispanic drunk driving is a black eye to the open borders lobby and its corporate and special interest backers, who often respond to attempts to raise awareness with hatebaiting and panic.
In Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2007, drunken driver Alfredo Ramos killed two teenaged girls, Alison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16. When news broke that Ramos had already had three alcohol-related convictions and was also an illegal alien, there was an outcry about a system that could not even deport an illegal alien and proven menace, and that two promising American teens paid with the lives as a result. The injustice of the situation led Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to lead with the story on his program, interviewing David Kunhardt, the grieving father of victim Alison Kunhardt. "Ramos was a known scofflaw," O'Reilly said. "The authorities in your town would not obey the law, defied the law of the land, and somebody has to be held accountable."
The reason Ramos had not been deported before slaying the girls is that like many jurisdictions, Virginia Beach police are not allowed to inquire about a suspect's immigration status. This policy is found nationwide, even in major jurisdictions, and attempts to change it are met by the outspoken opposition of well funded open borders advocacy groups. Many politicians, at least for now, would rather see children die than be called "racists." The Virginia Beach city fathers reacted to the Fox exposure by attempting to spin attention to the tragedy off of illegal immigration and onto awareness about drunk driving in general.
Hispanic drunk driving is one of those issues surrounding illegal immigration where ordinary people carry a heavy burden. Just as with a lower wage scale, lower-quality schools, bankrupted hospitals, teeming prisons and scarce social resources all across the board, corporations are willing to let America decline in pursuit of profit.
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News Source: Western Voices correspondent
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