Immigration Failures 🛂

Repeat Offender, Deadly Consequences Every time America’s leaders refuse to enforce immigration laws, real people pay the ultimate price. In July 2007, Ezeiquiel Lopez, a Mexican illegal alien, allegedly shot and killed a Kenosha County Deputy Sheriff. Lopez was no stranger to law enforcement. He had been jailed for violent crimes twice before but was allowed to stay in the country instead of being deported. How does this happen in a nation… Read more

A History of Failure and a Lifetime of Grief This story should make every American angry. In June 2007, Jesus Bernal, an illegal immigrant with two prior DUI convictions, made a decision that shattered lives. Bernal drove drunk through Cincinnati and crashed his vehicle, killing three people and seriously injuring two others. The court handed down a fifty-five year sentence for his crimes, but the sentence is little comfort to the families… Read more

Broken Borders, Broken Lives When Americans talk about the cost of open borders, this is what they mean. In June 2007, Michael Caldera Delatorre, an illegal immigrant who had already been deported twice in three years, was back on American soil and behind the wheel of a stolen car in North Carolina. He was not just here illegally. He was drunk, using a fake identification, and speeding down a highway with zero… Read more

America's borders are wide open and we are all paying the price. How much more blood must be shed before our so-called leaders put the safety of citizens above political games? In April 2007, Juan Crisantos Ramos, a forty-six year old Mexican national with a conviction for second degree murder and burglary in New Jersey, was arrested in Nogales, Arizona after trying to sneak back into the United States just months after… Read more

In Dearborn, Michigan, a murder case that stunned the community has brought renewed scrutiny to the nation’s immigration policies. Epigmenio Gomez, an undocumented immigrant with prior arrests, was charged in February 2007 with the murder of a local teenage girl. Gomez had previously encountered law enforcement, yet remained in the country illegally. Following a thorough investigation and trial, Gomez was found guilty. On September 11, 2007, he was convicted of first-degree murder… Read more

ICE Detains Illegal Alien Linked to Horrific Crime in Illinois Suburbs Federal immigration authorities have arrested a Mexican national, Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, after police in Waukegan, Illinois, discovered the body of 37-year-old Megan Bos in a storage container filled with bleach behind his home. This case is drawing national attention and renewed outrage over so-called "sanctuary" policies and recent bail reforms in Illinois. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Mendoza-Gonzalez,… Read more