Illegal detained in death of 'Christmas Story' director

Bob Clark, son die in collision with SUV driven by Mexican

Posted: April 6, 2007 5:16 p.m. Eastern

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An illegal alien suspected of causing a traffic accident and killing movie director Bob Clark, whose "A Christmas Story" has come alongside "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" as a perennial holiday must-watch, has been placed under an immigration hold by federal authorities.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed the hold on Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, a Mexican national who was living in Los Angeles as an illegal immigrant, according to a report from Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee.

Agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the hold means Valezquez-Nava, when his Los Angeles court proceedings are completed, will be turned over to federal immigration officials and put into deportation proceedings.

From the WorldNetDaily Archive:

How open borders turn Americans into roadkill
Illegals drive up highway deaths as U.S. hits new highs for unlicensed, uninsured motorists
Posted: August 25, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Marcos Ramos Medina was driving his 1997 Chevrolet Lumina erratically, according to witnesses, swerving several times across the center line, causing a tractor-trailer rig to jackknife in Yakima, Wash., Aug. 4, 2005.

That was before his car plowed into the 2000 Lexus driven by Peggy Keller, 53, dean of distance education at Yakima Valley College, who was killed in the head-on crash.

Prosecutors in his vehicular homicide trial contended Medina was coming down from a methamphetamine high. When Russell T. "Todd" Sharpe, a six-year Washington State Patrol officer, testified that Medina fought against his restraints while being taken to the hospital for a blood alcohol test and refused to answer questions, the case against the Mexican national with a criminal record who had twice been deported was declared a mistrial because his constitutional right to remain silent had been violated.

"It pains me greatly, but in this case I must exercise an abundance of caution," explained Judge James P. Hutton.

Little caution, critics say, is being exercised when it comes to preventing mayhem on America's highways as the country witnesses record high numbers of unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured drivers – millions of whom are illegal aliens like Medina.

From VDare:

LAPD: “We Don’t Get Into” Immigration Status Of Christmas Story Director’s Killer

By Nicholas Stix

At 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4, Bob Clark, the 67-year-old director of the Christmas movie classic A Christmas Story, and his 24-year-old son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, were killed when the Infiniti that Clark was driving was hit head on—by a drunk, unlicensed driver in a GMC Yukon driving in the wrong lane.

At the LAPD Media Relations Section, an Officer Hurty told me, "I think blood was drawn" from Velazquez-Nava, but that "we don't [have a blood alcohol level on him]," and "that's going to be part of evidence used in court" so "we don't want [unclear] releasing that."

And, I asked, do you know anything about [Velazquez-Nava's] immigration status? "No, we don't."

Do you plan on …, "No, we don't get into that." (Officer Hurty anticipated my question on immigration status; she must get a lot of that.)

Let's see. A man with a Spanish name and no driver's license is so blasted that he drives into incoming traffic, kills two American citizens and almost kills his female companion.

What are the odds that he is a legal resident or American citizen?

Maybe it's time that the LAPD “got into that”.

But the LAPD still enforces Special Order 40, the 1979 illegal ordinance instituted by the LA Police Commission and signed by then Chief Daryl Gates requiring that police officers not inquire into people's immigration status.

Thanks to S.O. 40, much of LA is today under the control of murderous illegal immigrant gangs and Los Angeles last year suffered 269 gang-related murders.