News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Killer lived nearly 20 years in U.S. as illegal alien

BY KATHY MELLOTT

The Tribune-Democrat

HOLLIDAYSBURG— For 18 years, Miguel Padilla lived in the U.S., attended public schools, fathered three children and was married once. A self-employed contractor, he maintained his child support and wheeled around in a silver Jaguar.
He also racked up a criminal record in Cambria County with at least two run-ins with the law in the Cresson area.
Yet, as a native of Mexico, his legal status in this country is as confusing as the briefcase containing $19,600 in cash that authorities linked to him shortly after he murdered three Altoona men in August 2005.
Padilla, 27, was sentenced to death Thursday for the killings.
Officials of the Department of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement do not discuss individual cases, but court documents show Padilla is considered to be an illegal alien from Mexico.

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