Marine home on leave gets killed by an illegal DUI

[AK-74me]

Repulsive

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53192

DUI illegal kills Marine
home on leave from Iraq
4 times legal limit: Mexican driver cited
for earlier accident but charges dropped
Posted: December 2, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

One week after he slammed his Nissan Sentra into a car waiting at a stoplight, killing a U.S. Marine and his female passenger, Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, whose blood alcohol level was measured at .32 – four times the legal level in Maryland for intoxication – has been identified as an illegal immigrant by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Baltimore.


Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews

Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia and his date, Jennifer Bower, 24, of Montgomery Village were killed Thanksgiving night, shortly after 10:00 p.m. when Bower's Toyota Corolla was hit from behind by Morales-Soriano, 25, of Mexico. Mathews and Bower were on their second date and were planning to take part in the June wedding of friends who had introduced them to each other.

Mathews had served 8 months in Iraq and completed another tour of duty in the Pacific. He was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and had come home to Maryland for the holidays. He was scheduled to leave the Corps in June 2007.

Mathews' fellow Marines are upset over his death.

"It's more anger than anything," Cpl. Garrett Farris, 21, of Texas, told the Baltimore Examiner. "A guy goes to war and has no problems with that. He comes back to the States, and it's supposed to be our safe place."

 

[signora]

That story is unbelievable especially being that the "illegal immigrant" had been picked up before where alcohol was involved nothing ever done. Now he took the lives of two innocent people.

 

[ylexot]

That story is unbelievable especially being that had been picked up before where alcohol was involved nothing ever done.

That are some good english!

 

[vraiblonde]

In February, Columbia police responded to a non-injury accident in a parking lot involving Morales-Soriano. According to police reports, he was "unable to maintain his balance" during a field sobriety test. He was given four citations and allowed to leave the scene of the accident with a relative after he refused to take a Breathalyzer test.

Although Maryland law requires an automatic 120-day forfeiture of a drivers license for refusing the test, Morales-Soriano's license was not suspended after the accident.

What the hell???

 

[dustin]

Can an illegal be held under the US judicial system and put in jail?

 

[blacklabman]

Terminate his existence.

 

[jetmonkey]

I'd like to hear more about these legal DUIs...

 

[AK-74me]

I'd like to hear more about these legal DUIs...

By an illegal driving under the influence. Where is your confusion again?

 

[signora]

Can an illegal be held under the US judicial system and put in jail?

Not sure, but he wanted to live in the U.S then he should be convicted under the U.S. Laws. Two people's lives were taken because of his stupidity of driving drunk.

 

[dustin]

Not sure, but he wanted to live in the U.S then he should be convicted under the U.S. Laws. Two people's lives were taken because of his stupidity of driving drunk.

I agree.


...I tried googling it...no go...

 

[Nicole_in_somd]

Sorry but I have a real problem with illegals here to begin with and this only proves my point. the have little to no regard to our laws as it is and yes I am bunching them all up in one neat little package.

I hope he gets the death sentence.

 

[FromTexas]

Sorry but I have a real problem with illegals here to begin with and this only proves my point. the have little to no regard to our laws as it is and yes I am bunching them all up in one neat little package.

I hope he gets the death sentence.

As if we don't have all our American DUIs... ?

 

[Hessian]

Outrage saturation

I read the article in utmost disgust. I felt the deaths of these two FINE AMERICANS should be placed at the doorstep of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

With 75% or more of the American public DEMANDING a wall. fence/armed border/minefield....the president has been Carter-incompetent on the issue.
Where is our combined outrage going to get us? Why must it take larger & larger heinious crimes to arouse our lethargic government into action?
WE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS! PROTECT US AS YOU HAVE BEEN SWORN!!

Mr President, Build us a Wall!

 

[FromTexas]

I read the article in utmost disgust. I felt the deaths of these two FINE AMERICANS should be placed at the doorstep of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

With 75% or more of the American public DEMANDING a wall. fence/armed border/minefield....the president has been Carter-incompetent on the issue.
Where is our combined outrage going to get us? Why must it take larger & larger heinious crimes to arouse our lethargic government into action?
WE ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS! PROTECT US AS YOU HAVE BEEN SWORN!!

Mr President, Build us a Wall!

This isn't an immigration issue. Its a DUI issue. Drunk drivers are American, too. What is disgusting is he was let go to drive again after being flagrantly drunk. What makes it worse is that he was an illegal driver (another crime) and he was let go (i.e. he had two strikes against him right there).
His being illegal has nothing to do with him being a drunk driver.

 

[AK-74me]

This isn't an immigration issue. Its a DUI issue. Drunk drivers are American, too. What is disgusting is he was let go to drive again after being flagrantly drunk. What makes it worse is that he was an illegal driver (another crime) and he was let go (i.e. he had two strikes against him right there).
His being illegal has nothing to do with him being a drunk driver.

Right, just killing Americans other Americans aren't willing to. Gotcha.

 

[FromTexas]

Right, just killing Americans other Americans aren't willing to. Gotcha.

That is the stupid statement of the year award. So, you are saying an American drunk driver would have avoided this car because a Marine was in it? They would have just had their "do not kill this American" sensor going? I don't think so. Do you think the victims family would feel better about it if it had been an American drunk driver instead of an illegal? Not.

Again, the illegal immigrant status has nothing to do with DUIs being a severe problem. Especially the fact that they are constantly let on the roads again and again here in Maryland. I am all for stopping illegal immigration. However, DUI does not equal immigration issues.

 

[AK-74me]

That is the stupid statement of the year award. So, you are saying an American drunk driver would have avoided this car because a Marine was in it? They would have just had their "do not kill this American" sensor going? I don't think so. Do you think the victims family would feel better about it if it had been an American drunk driver instead of an illegal? Not.

Again, the illegal immigrant status has nothing to do with DUIs being a severe problem. Especially the fact that they are constantly let on the roads again and again here in Maryland. I am all for stopping illegal immigration. However, DUI does not equal immigration issues.

Lighten up Francis.

it was semi-sarcastic in nature, you know, "doing work Americans aren't willing to do."

 

[dustin]

They would not be dead if that guy had not immigrated illegally.

 

[dustin]

and yes DUI and immigration are two different issues...

 

[FromTexas]

and yes DUI and immigration are two different issues...

Exactly. Make an immigration argument seperate from the DUI. Make a DUI argument seperate from immigration. One has nothing to do with the other. Its like the ABBs. They will say its Bush's fault for about anything. There are plenty of things actually wrong with Bush, but they lose all their credibility when they tie him to things that are outside his control or totally unrelated. Don't make the immigration argument weaker by using unrelated items to tackle it. It just makes a bunch of chicken littles.

Use the meat of the subject to debate each seperate issue. There are plenty of reasons to deal with illegal immigration and DUIs. Don't cheapen one debate by mixing it with the other.