Here’s another young American struck down at the beginning of adulthood by a drunk-driving illegal alien. Nicole Allen, 21, was killed when the car in which she was riding as a back-seat passenger was struck from behind by a Lincoln Town Car driven by Mexican Pedro Santos.

It’s all too common — a drunken illegal alien taking the life of an innocent young person.

Allen graduated in 2004 from Parkway North High School [in Creve Coeur Missouri]. She worked as a server at Red Robin restaurant and was a junior at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, studying photography, graphic design and art history.

“She was a cute, petite, fun-loving friend,” said her aunt Debbie Nolen of Springfield, Mo. “She was a little angel.”

The fact that Santos is an illegal immigrant was not lost on Allen’s family, who gathered at the home on Gold Leaf. That further enraged them.

“He had no business being on the road anyway, but he’s drunk on top of it,” Nolen said.
[Drunk driving is suspected in crash that killed woman, St Louis Post-Dispatch 4/22/07]

Santos ran on foot from the crime scene, but was apprehended three hours later by police using search dogs and a helicopter.

The online stuff is starting to pump out of the Feet to the Fire several-day pro-sovereignty event in Washington.

For a page full of YouTube interviews and speeches, use this link.

There are several bloggers covering the event, among them:

Freedom Folks

Stop the Invasion

Diggers Realm

ALIPAC

There are photos, videos, interviews, whatever is going on in Bloggers Row and in the Capitol. Fun and lively! There are 40 radio people attending and broadcasting, so check out your local conservative talk radio station also.

Fred Thompson is considered a conservative on immigration by some people. NRO just printed a transcript of his radio speech on illegal immigration from Mexico[MP3] and funny guy Frank J. is trying to make him look like Chuck Norris.

But one of Frank J.’s commenters insists, in reply to a commenter who said “Can someone send Mr. Thompson to New Mexico to stand on our border for a day or two?”

What would be the point? Thompson’s a big border security sieve just like Bush is.
His record shows it. They are both sell-outs to the banking lobby which wants the illegal immigrants to pour in so they can sell them credit cards and charge them fees to send money out of the USA. Those of us who want tighter border control are never going to get it. Thompson and Bush are two politicians (among many) that are constantly screwing us over in favor of giant banks.
Posted by: Sarcasm Man on March 12, 2007 03:27 PM “

And he has a point about Thompson’s immigration record. Remember Al Gore, who when he was the Democratic Senator from Tennessee had an A- rating on immigration?

Thompson’s record, as the Republican Senator from the same state: C.

Mickey Kaus writes in Slate

Doesn’t anybody pander anymore? Still no Democratic presidential contender tapping anti-legalization sentiment on immigration. You’d think someone would seize this potentially vote-rich position. Washington Times speculates that someone could be … Al Gore.

The Washington Times says this

Americans for Better Immigration, which opposes legalization of aliens, graded Mr. Gore an A-minus for his votes in Congress. The group gave a D to both Mr. Edwards and Mr. Obama, and graded Mrs. Clinton a D-minus.[United on immigration, Democrats divide voters By Stephen Dinan ,April 23, 2007]

Al Gore did have a good record on immigration in his previous life as a white Southern Congressman and Senator, facing the voters of the great state of Tennessee. But he also had a fairly conservative record on gun control and abortion—as a white Southern Congressman and Senator, facing only Tennessee voters.

He had to change all that to get past Democratic primary voters in the national elections, and he duly changed. His Tennessee record is thus irrelevant.