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Friday, November 21, 2008
Mike Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Hard-working, decent, honest people right?
by Mike Gallagher
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These guys in the truck might be hard-working, but running from a car accident they caused sure doesn't bring the terms “decent” or “honest” to mind.

And as one of the bystanders said to me, if their tire wasn't bent so badly, wouldn't it be likely that they would have been tearing down the road at a high rate of speed, putting every man, woman and child's life in their path in danger?

This is the dirty little secret about illegal immigration.

While people debate labor costs and the economic aspects of illegals, very few want to focus on the kind of crime I witnessed.

When you sneak into a country and hope to stay off the radar by refusing to pay taxes or be an official part of our society, this is something that is bound to happen, over and over again.

And it does.

In Tempe, Arizona, a beautiful young high school band member was killed by a drunk driving illegal immigrant, a man who was cited two years ago for the very same offense, driving while intoxicated.

It seems to me that if we do anything at all, we can at least deport illegals who drive drunk, beat their wives, or rob someone. When the police arrived at the parking lot where the four men in the pick-up were waiting, they were met with a brick wall of silence. Who was driving? No answer. Do you speak English? Nothing. Why did you guys run? Silence.

Fortunately, the lady in the SUV knew exactly who was driving and pointed him out to the police. Within minutes, he was in handcuffs being led away to jail. One down. How many more to go?

We can't count that high.

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Mike Gallagher is a nationally syndicated radio host, Fox News Channel contributor and guest host and author of Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America.

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the hellll with Americans and the law
"I need a vote, any vote, even illegal vote" - say many a congressperson :(

chris, AL, for Christ's sake - fine an employer heavily for hiring illegals, and the problem will repatriate itself, got it?

big problem
Mike Gallagher has a very common sense approach to issues such as this. These illegal immigrants are always gonna be a problem as long as our government doesn't enforce the laws that are currently on the books. Hearing about illegals who either maim or kill decent hard working Americans makes my blood boil.
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