Our Houston injury attorneys note that on Sunday morning in Dallas, one person died and others suffered injury when a man named Santiago Gonzalez, identified as being in this country illegally, was driving the wrong way on I-35. Gonzalez apparently caused a fatal four-car pileup while driving the wrong way and allegedly while intoxicated.
According to news accounts, a driver named Maria Vasquez had to be extracted from the twisted wreckage of her vehicle by rescue crews responding to the pileup. The effort took more than an hour. Ms. Vasquez died an untimely death from her injuries at the age of 33 at the hospital. She had just dropped her 3-year-old child off with her parents when the 4-car pileup occurred. Her young son otherwise might also have lost his life in this horrific wreck caused by a heedless wrong-way driver.
Officers charged Santiago Gonzalez with intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle and intoxicated assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury. But Gonzalez is being held for U.S. immigration authorities. Our Houston injury attorneys question the result. If Gonzalez is deported and he has no criminal convictions in his home country, he might remain free to reenter the U.S. illegally again at his convenience, never to suffer for the horrific crime he committed.
Statistics and news reports indicate that illegal immigrants are responsible for a high incidence of fatalities, crimes, and dangerous injuries. Crime reports tie many illegal immigrants to the Mexican drug cartels and gangs. Reports tying them to other crimes like assault and DWI are not uncommon. The high incidence of crime tied to illegal immigrants could result because those who commit a crime to enter the country might be less concerned about committing other crimes as well.
The act of entering and staying in the U.S. illegally serves to cheapen the diligent efforts of those immigrants who work hard and endure endless rounds of paperwork and examinations, as well as long waiting periods, in order to enter the country legally.
Our Houston injury attorneys notice that this fatal 4-car pileup in Dallas, resulting from a wrong-way, drunken driver in this country illegally, comes at a time when President Obama is relaxing prohibitions against illegal immigration in order to court the Latino vote. Media depicts illegal immigration as a purely emotional issue. But illegal immigration is actually a public safety issue. When our government turns a blind eye to crime, your safety is at risk on the roads and elsewhere.
Don’t be fooled by emotional manipulations of the media big dogs. Take a look at how your safety is affected by illegal immigrants as they drive unlicensed and under the influence on our roads. And take care; the 4-car pileup that took Dallas drivers unaware on Sunday morning could have happened anywhere in the U.S., to anyone.
Learn about another fatal DWI accident in Texas caused by an illegal immigrant in this article by our Houston injury attorneys.