Shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday, Edwin Jackson, 26, a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts, and Jeffrey Monroe, 54, an Uber driver, were struck and killed by an undocumented alien.
Both Messrs. Jackson and Monroe were standing on the side of an interstate highway in Indianapolis when Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, a Guatemalan citizen in the U.S. illegally, mowed them down.
He had been twice deported from the United States, in 2007 and 2009, but returned.
Indiana State Police say Mr. Orrego-Savala, driving a Ford F-150 pickup, was drunk, that his alcohol level was .239%, nearly three times the legal limit.
After hitting the two men, he tried to run away, and when apprehended said his name was Alex Cabrera-Gonzales.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Monday that Mr. Orrego-Savala had been convicted of drunk driving in California in 2005.
ICE officials also said he had other “misdemeanor criminal convictions and arrests in California and Indiana
Mr. Jackson had been signed by the Colts in 2016 and played in all 16 games that year. He sat out the 2017 season on injured reserve.
“So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson,” tweeted President Trump early Tuesday. “This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Demos to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration FAST.
“My prayers and best wishes are with the family of Edwin Jackson, a wonderful young man whose life was so senselessly taken,” he said.
The early Sunday morning tragedy in Indiana is remincent of Kate Steinle, 32, who was with her father on Pier 14 in San Francisco when she was killed by a bullet that ricocheted off the concrete ground on July 1, 2015.
Her assailant, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, also known as Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, is an illegal alien felon convicted in the U.S. seven times and deported five times.
In November 2017, a San Francisco jury acquitted Garcia Zarate, an undocumented, illegal alien of murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault charges in Ms. Steinle’s death, but did convict him of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Facing 16 months to three years in jail for the firearms conviction, and now in custody in San Francisco, a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state that refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, it’s not clear if he’ll be deported.
The death of Ms. Steinle spawned Kate’s Law, a bill to toughen penalties on repeat illegal immigrants. Those who are caught returning after deportation would face two years in prison, and a third attempt would be punishable by 10 years. Repeat illegal immigrants with serious criminal convictions could face up to 25 years.
Kate’s Law cleared the House last year, said The Washington Times, “with support from two dozen Democrats, but the Senate has not taken action. Now, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is calling for Kate’s Law to be part of the immigration debate involving illegal immigrant Dreamers and border security.
“While no legislation can prevent every tragic situation, Congress has a duty to take every action possible to mitigate this harm and danger,” Mr. Goodlatte told The Times.
His plan also includes the Davis-Oliver Act, which would require localities to cooperate with deportation efforts, pushing back against the growing number of sanctuaries that protect illegal immigrants.
ICE provided information about the five most deported illegal immigrants to The Times on the condition that it not name them specifically.
All five were Mexican, and among them they had amassed 14 criminal convictions for illegal entry, seven for illegal re-entry, three for vehicle theft and one count of “cruelty toward wife.”
One managed to get deported 44 times in 15 years, said The Times, which means he also managed to sneak back across the border at least that many times.
The runner-up was ousted 40 times from 2001 to 2015. No. 3, 4 and 5 on the list were deported 35, 34 and 31 times, respectively, according to data provided to The Times by ICE.
The Border Patrol tracks the recidivism rate, which it considers to be anyone caught more than once in the same fiscal year. The rate was nearly 20% in 2011, but it dropped steadily to 10% last year.
Both of the crimes in Indiana and California, together with others that have been documented, point out that horrific crimes by undocumented aliens continue unabated.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, one of the Republicans’ chief negotiators in the current immigration debate, said the fatal crash should be a wake-up call.
“People are dying as a result of criminals taking advantage of the porous nature of the border, and we need to stop it,” he said. “A lot of that has to do with improving our border security. And it’s not just about barriers. It’s about technology. It’s about personnel and creating the systems that are necessary to stop more of that.”
In the meantime, globalists, including liberal Democrats and Interfaith organized progressives, private or institutionalized, push for open borders and mass immigration, all bent on destabilizing western civilization.