Add Donna and Sean Wilson of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, to the terrible list of innocent Americans killed by illegals aliens with numerous prior arrests. In other words, the Wilsons’ shocking deaths from a frontal collision in a June 8 DUI accident were entirely preventable, and would never have happened if the government were doing its primary job of keeping out invaders.

Today’s headline underlines how inept and callous the immigration bureaucracy has become: Man not deported after 14 arrests [The Tennessean, 6/16/06].

Federal and local authorities are trying to figure out how an illegal immigrant from Mexico managed to avoid deportation despite being arrested more than a dozen times in the past five years, agency officials said Thursday.

Gustavo Reyes Garcia, 28, has accumulated dozens of criminal charges and been arrested 14 times in Nashville without being flagged by federal authorities for being in the country illegally.

What’s wrong with Nashville and the feds? The accused killer, Mexican Gustavo Reyes Garcia, had four previous arrests for drunk driving and should have been considered a dangerous person and shipped home after one DUI. Or even better, never allowed in at all.

Donna and Sean Wilson were active in the local Baptist church and had two grown children.

Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the Reconquista California charter school I exposed recently, has a new website…they removed all of the photos and replaced them instead with news clippings, denials of racism and pity-pool drivel. (HERE)

According to the site, this is why they changed the appearance:

Due to the unsanctioned use of the images of our students, our previous web site has been temporarily taken down in order to ensure the students’ safety and to prevent further misuse. We hope you enjoy our new web site. Please contact us if you have any questions.

I definitely used their photos in my recent column but not to show the kids (although they always seemed to be wearing Aztec costumes–like a school uniform or something)…I wanted everyone to see the huge Mexican and Cuban flags these people fly around campus.

Here they still are, in my column, just scroll down a bit. (Thank you James Fulford for posting them instead of just linking!!)

Hmm…the school also seems to have replaced the Mechista racist, pony-tailed principal, Marcos Aguilar. (photo here)

The new principal is a woman named Minnie Ferguson…can’t find anything on her yet.

Prominent economist and unskilled Hispanic immigration supporter Tyler Cowen writes on his Marginal Revolution blog about two Mexican villages he’s visited in the state of Guerrero:

A tale of two pueblos

San Agustin [Oapan] is filthy. The streets are full of pig **** and drunks. Ameyaltepec is not quite Geneva, but it is clean. The pigs are kept off the street. Drunks are nowhere to be found. Homes are much better maintained. Families are at least twice as rich as in Oapan. ..

I don’t know why the two pueblos are so different. I do know that many people see some of the worst features of Oapan in Mexican migration to America. Much of this is rooted in fact; problems with gangs for instance are very real.
When I look at Ameyaltepec I see contingency, culture, and incentives at work. I don’t see why most parts of the United States cannot manage a comparable success with regard to Mexican-Americans…

The tale of two pueblos is one reason - but not the only one — why I think large numbers of Mexican-Americans in the United States will work out well.

Cowen argues that, if we’re lucky, unskilled Mexican immigrants in America will wind up like the Mexicans in the good village. Of course, he’s skipping over the other possibility: that, if we’re unlucky, they’ll end up like in the bad village.
The obvious question is: Why should we, the citizens of America, take the risk?

The best-case scenario for the outcome of massive unskilled immigration from Mexico sounds, from Cowen’s description, lacking in much payoff for American citizens: by Mexican standards, the good village is terrific, but by American standards, it’s well below average.

In contrast, the worst-case scenario, from Cowen’s description, sounds awful.

So, why is it rational for American voters to, in effect, bet the nation on a coin flip? A basic concept in financial economics is that risk requires a higher expected reward to make it worthwhile. What’s the higher reward that unskilled Mexican immigration is granting us that outweighs the risk?