Illegal's DWIs Are Just 'Cultural'
Well, duh! America's (maybe) waking up - POBRECITAS BATMAN,
we've known this for 50+ years!
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/559842.html
we've known this for 50+ years!
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/559842.html
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Stringing up law breakers from the highest branch was a cultural thing, too... but we got over it.
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We have a goodly number of families that get tagged in head-ons every year ... and I'm sure their family and friends get over it ... might take a lifetime ... but they get over it. I could tell you a story or two - but won't. Asian drivers are interesting, too, but mostly sober.[8D]
... and, oh, these folks not only haven't owned/driven cars before but they also haven't ever gotten a driver's license ... and Insurance? LOL ... kidding right?
It's going to be a long hard lesson for the rest of the country - although Okla. is finally showing some juevos and doing (attempting to, anyway) something about it!
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Well, duh! America's (maybe) waking up - POBRECITAS BATMAN,
we've known this for 50+ years!
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/559842.html
Hmmm I think anyone who is alone could fall into the grips of Alcohol. But I have found that the beer is just as cold out of my fridge and just as tasty on my sofa.
Folks that is exactly why I drink Corona Beer, It creates jobs right there in Frijole, where these people can feel free to drink and drive all they want!!!!0 -
I may be misguided, but if the drunk-driving thing is, indeed, cultural, I think we just have to accept that it will cost an innocent life now and then. After all, if we are truly committed to diversity, we not only have to deal in other languages than English and pay for all kinds of services to those who haven't earned them or paid for them, but also be willing to sacrifice a family member or two to prove we're an accepting, decent society. Sure, you'll be upset for a while after the crash, but just think of how warm and accepted it will make the DUI driver feel. It will make your open-mindedness all worthwhile.
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Illegal's DWIs are just cultural
If I'm elected
The check is in the mail
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...empty the prisons by sending the illegals BACK...do away with that "sanctuary city" crap and when these illegals are stopped and found to be illegal, send their butts back.
..Give employers a way to check the authenticity of a SS number, then impose a 1 year mandatory sentance and a $100,000 fine for the employer for each illegal they are caught having hired...[;)]
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quote:rossowmn:
... think of how warm and accepted it will make the DUI driver feel. It will make your open-mindedness all worthwhile.
Ahhh, I'm just happy to know that there are millions and millions on their way - not far behind - to help themselves to our jobs and free tax money - while our country gets worn out. It's a truly wonderous/wonderful thing, amigos![:D]0 -
"Four hospitals and 14 brain surgeries"
Wonder who's payin' for that[?][?]
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So it's ok because they're Hispanic. I'm part German, so does that mean it's ok if I invade France? It's in my culture. 0 -
I think you guys DID - THREE TIMES - so far!
OK with me - go gettim again!![:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by catpealer111
So it's ok because they're Hispanic. I'm part German, so does that mean it's ok if I invade France? It's in my culture.
You can only invade it on the weekend owing to the fact that you're only part German.[;)][:D]
Not that you'd need the entire week, but there's other folks to think about who might want to invade, too.0 -
Marti Maguire and Kristin Collins, Staff Writers
When Eliseo Hernandez came to the United States 30 years ago, he thought he drove better after a few beers. Driving drunk had been normal back in Mexico, he said. But Hernandez, 54, learned of its perils firsthand. He quit the practice after falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a tree 18 years ago.
Then, last year, a young Hispanic man who authorities say was drunk nearly killed Hernandez's only son, Diego, in a crash on a rural Johnston County road. Eliseo Hernandez's daughter, who was nine months pregnant, lost her unborn child in the accident.
Hernandez has spent the past year following Diego through four hospitals and 14 brain surgeries. Diego only recently began to smile again and might never walk.
Hernandez said he hopes his painful journey will teach his friends and family a lesson. Car accidents are the top killer of Hispanics in North Carolina, and the disproportionate number of alcohol-related arrests and wrecks are an embarrassment to a minority already beleaguered by hard feelings over illegal immigration.
"It makes the Mexicans look bad, very bad," Hernandez said. "The American people say 'Oh, it's just another Hispanic, the same as the others.' "
In 2005, there were 37 alcohol-related crashes caused by Hispanic drivers for every 10,000 Hispanics in the state, according to the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. That is more than three times the rate of alcohol-related crashes among non-Hispanics.
Hispanic leaders are struggling to stem a problem that they say is rooted in the waves of young men who leave the calming influences of church and family to labor alone in a new country.
"It's difficult because you're trying to compete with the loneliness," said Tony Asion, public safety director for El Pueblo, an Hispanic advocacy group. "Then, as some learn, more come, and we start again."
Carnage continues
Last month, a Johnston County father and son died in a fiery crash authorities say was caused by Luciano Tellez, 31, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Dwane Braswell, 35, and his son Jerry, 9, were riding in a tractor-trailer cab on N.C. 210 in the Cleveland community of Johnston County when Tellez struck the tractor and rolled it into a ditch, where it caught fire.
Empty beer cans were found in Tellez' car, but authorities say it is impossible to know whether he was drunk.
It was the latest in a string of such accidents caused by Hispanic men. In February in Salisbury, a woman who was eight months pregnant and her unborn child were killed. In October, it was two college students and a high school boy. In January 2006, a man from El Salvador killed a Hillsborough woman in a head-on crash and fled, leaving an injured passenger in his own car.
Researchers say drunken driving among Hispanics is at least partially explained by demographics. As in many places where immigration is fairly recent, the Hispanic population in North Carolina is young and dominated by men -- both factors that make them statistically more likely to drive drunk.
Men in their 20s and 30s made up more than half the people charged with DWI statewide in the year ending last July. Nearly 40 percent of North Carolina Hispanics were 21- to 39-year-old men in 2005, according to census estimates. This same age range accounted for only 18 percent of blacks and 16 percent of whites.
Bobby Dunn, who counsels Spanish-speaking DWI convicts in Johnston and Wilson counties, said his clients are often young men far from home with money in their pockets for the first time. Many were too poor to have cars in Mexico, so they have little experience behind the wheel.
Mexicans have a very high incidence of drunk driving crashes. Check your local news, and try to read between the lines, because normally they will not say that the culprit was an illegal immigrant. You will be surprised at how many illegal Mexicans are to blame in drunk driving fatality crashes.0 -
The only reasonable solution is the baning of all motor vehicles. 0 -
"trying to compete with the loneliness," said Tony Asion, public safety director for El Pueblo, an Hispanic advocacy group."
There have been times that I have been lonely - like after putting down my last Bullmastif.
I didn't get drunk & hit someone head-on though.
If they are so lonely - go home where they belong.0 -
quote:catpealer111:
The only reasonable solution is the banning of all motor vehicles.
That's silly. Get serious!
I suggest that we abolish all driver's training, licensing, and get rid of
insurance, too - WAY to expensive. I'd also stop all this crap about the
cops harassing minority kids by making stolen car stops! That's the
worst racist thing I've EVER SEEN! If the poor minority kids could afford
cars in the first place THEY'D BUY THEIR OWN JESSSSH!
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We have a BIG problem with repeat D.W.I's here. Its not uncommon for a person to have ten or more D.W.I convictions.Are state has no way to stop a convicted D.W.I. offender from buying another car, and driving the car.We have a large part of are population in Latino and Indian people that are busted for D.W.I.'s. But we also have an equal number ( Ten indians or ten latinos to one white person), of white people in high places that get busted for D.W.I. arrests.I don't have any idea on how to fix the problem.We don't have large enough jails or prisons to take care of are own offenders much less illegals, and thats just for D.W.I.'s. 0 -
Obviously, you didn't take my post seriously.
... it's an easy fix.
Learning Spanish won't hurt, either.[:D]0
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