Unlicensed Illegal Alien Kills 2 Americans

Two people were killed in Louisiana Sunday morning when a speeding bus crashed into a fire truck that was parked at the scene of an earlier car crash. The driver of the bus was an illegal alien with no driver’s license.

Police arrested Denis Yasmir Amaya, a Honduran national, for the accident that took the life of St. John the Baptist Parish Fire Chief Spencer Chauvin and a civilian who was in another car that was struck by the out-of-control bus. Dozens were also injured, and at least one person was in critical condition Sunday.

“These are preventable tragedies; if we enforced our immigration laws, these drivers would not even be in the country.”

“This was a horrific accident,” said St. John the Baptist Parish President Natalie Robottom. “This type of loss will affect the entire department and they will have our full support as they deal with the grief of losing a comrade.”

But this incident was just one of many that was a direct result of lax border control, one that easily could have been avoided were the United States border with Mexico secured.

Concrete, definitive statistics are unavailable due to the nature of these crimes. “Because state and federal highway safety officials, do not classify deaths by the perpetrator’s immigration stats; tabulating the deadly toll of unlicensed, illegal immigrant drivers has been a painstaking effort,” reported Fox News in March.

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It is nevertheless clear that illegal alien drivers pose a clear danger to innocent Americans. The available data paints a shocking picture of the extent to which illegal immigrant drivers are a menace. According to DeadlyDrivers.org, an activist site dedicated to keeping unlicensed drivers — immigrant or otherwise — off America’s streets, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimated 20 percent of fatal car accidents per year involve unlicensed drivers.

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According to research by Don Rosenberg, who lost his son, Drew, to an illegal immigrant driver in 2010, more than 90 percent of those driving without a license in America today are in this country illegally. In 2014, there were 32,675 traffic fatalities. If 20 percent of those fatalities involved unlicensed drivers, and 90 percent of those driving without a license are illegal aliens, then upwards of 5,800 Americans lost their lives to illegal alien drivers in 2014 alone.

Alcohol is frequently involved in traffic fatalities caused by illegal aliens. “Our archives are filled with stories of drunk-driving illegals killing U.S. citizens,” William Gheen of the Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee told Fox News in March. Of the 15 cities with the highest incidents of alcohol-related car accidents, nearly all have significantly higher immigrant populations than the average American city. Nearly half of them are in the Southwest.

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The Ohio Jobs and Justice PAC keeps a running online memorial to the victims of illegal aliens on its website. It’s a sobering read, and suggests the number of Americans killed by illegal aliens behind the wheel far exceeds the number of Americans murdered by illegal aliens.

In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security deported 35,927 illegal immigrants convicted of driving under the influence, according to DeadlyDrivers.org. One such victim of an illegal drunk driver was Sgt. Brian Mendoza, whose mother, Mary Ann Mendoza, has been a prominent and public Trump supporter.

Mendoza was killed in 2014 when a drunk, high illegal immigrant speeding on the wrong side of the road hit him head-on. Until the border is secure and illegal alien criminals are removed from the country, deaths like Mendoza’s will continue to occur with regularity.

Of course, the actual death toll caused by illegal aliens behind the wheel could be far greater than our figures show. “The statistics do not do justice to the number of individuals killed in this country by illegal alien drivers, as vehicular assaults are often recorded as just assaults and immigration status is often not recorded,” noted Marguerite Telford, director of communications for the Center for Immigration Studies

“Public safety and the welfare of American citizens has been a low priority under the present administration. Many of these deaths would not have occurred if illegal aliens breaking our laws (driving without a license, joyriding, driving under the influence) had been deported, instead of waiting until they killed someone to allow law enforcement to do their job,” she continued.

“These are preventable tragedies; if we enforced our immigration laws, these drivers would not even be in the country.”