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November 19, 2007
Driving Under The Influence Of Being Latino
Maybe I'm missing something. Ingram is hosting The Falafel Factor tonight and she's interviewing the parent of someone who was killed by a drunk driver.
The hook: the drunk driver happened to be an illegal immigrant. I'm sitting here wondering how that detail made the crime more awful.
I'm not a biologist or mixologist, but does alcohol have a more potent effect on illegal immigrants? Or does this have more to do with the racist right-wing trying to pin crimes on illegal immigrants that have nothing to do with their illegal immigration status? I mean, if the drunk driver was legal, the victim would still have been killed, no?
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Posted By Bob Cesca | November 19, 2007 8:33 PM
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No, the victim would have lived, and no matter how badly smashed up s/he was, would have speed-dialed ICE (Immigrations Customs Enforcement, not In Case of Emergency, wait...both.) and reported the emergency.
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at November 20, 2007 8:22 AM
