Illegal alien Rigo Martinez received a long prison sentence on Thursday for killing a young woman in a drunk-driving crash last February in Rowan County.

The pain of this tragic and unnecessary death will surely linger for as long as any family member lives. The woman killed, Leeanna Newman, was only 20 years old and was 8 months pregnant. Her 21-month-old daughter Mallory, received minor injuries in the crash. Leeanna’s adult life was just beginning.

An illegal immigrant who was found guilty of second-degree murder in the February wreck involving a pregnant woman will serve a minimum of 25 years in jail, the maximum sentence for his crimes.

Rigo Verto Guillen-Martinez, 34, showed no emotion Thursday as the sentence was handed down.

Nine of Leeanna Newman’s family members spoke before sentencing and plead for the maximum.

“The only person I ever said ‘I love you’ to and meant it, you have taken from me,” said Brad Newman, Leeanna’s widower. “When I come home from work, it’s empty. There’s nothing there for me.”
[Drunk-driver sentenced to 25 years in pregnant woman's death, Kannapolis Independent Tribune 9/21/07]

The young family was just starting out in life, looking forward to the new baby and getting settled in a new home. They had a bright future ahead, until an illegal alien destroyed it.

Leeanna Newman loved being a mother.

She and her husband, Brad, were excited about having their second child, a sister for 21-month-old Mallory, Leeanna’s sister, Tiea LeMasters, said Wednesday.

The young family had recently settled into a house on China Grove Road. Brad had just started a new job, and Leeanna was a stay-at-home mom. It’s what she wanted to be, her sister said.

“They were getting ready and planning baby showers and stuff,” LeMasters said. “She was just committed to raising Mallory and getting ready for this new baby and that’s what her whole life was about right now.”
[Family struggling with grief after fatal accident in Landis Salisbury Post 2/08/07]

The killer has at least six aliases and prior arrests. He was deported twice before. His blood alcohol level at the time of the wreck was .27, three times higher than the North Carolina legal limit of .08. He told paramedics after the crash that he had drunk 20 beers prior to driving his car. Martinez was so drunk he didn’t realize his leg was broken in two places. He had a job as as a painter in the area – apparently one of Bush’s “willing workers.”

“People who should get in, get in; people who should not enter are kept out; and people who are deportable should be required to leave.“

Prepared statement of Barbara Jordan, Chairwoman of the United States Commission on Immigration Reform, Before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, August 3, 1994.

According to an article in the Canadian press, some Mexicans (presumably illegal aliens) are fleeing the U.S. and heading to Canada, where they have been informed by some organizations and websites that they can claim refugee status.

Canadian immigration officials, however, are trying to discourage it:

“Canadian immigration authorities are spreading the message that Canada does not give preferential treatment to illegal Mexican refugees in an effort to counteract misinformation that has sent scores of migrants sneaking across the border from the United States. As the U.S. cracks down on illegal immigrants, organizations and websites there are ‘providing false or misleading information on how to claim refugee status in Canada,’ reads a fraud warning posted on Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s website.The warning notes there are no special programs or preferential treatment for Mexican nationals and that people should be wary of groups making such claims.

Citizenship and Immigration ministry spokesman Mike Fraser blames refugee organizations in the U.S. and says

“Canadian officials have met with refugee organizations in the U.S. to urge them to stop spreading misleading information.”

Eddie Francis, mayor of Windsor, Ontario (which is actually south of Detroit, see map says 200 Mexican refugees (at last count) arrived to his city in one week, and Mayor Francis is already concerned about their effect on social services:

“The surging number of migrants will likely ’shatter’ the city’s social services budgets, Francis said. Windsor’s emergency shelters don’t have enough space to cope with those who have crossed into the city so far, so they are being put up in hotels, he said. Housing the refugees has already used up $200,000 - or 20 per cent - of the city’s annual $1-million emergency shelter budget, Francis said.Another 32 out of 55 refugees who have applied for social assistance have been approved, costing the city another $32,000.”

Mayor Francis says Mexicans think they don’t have to worry about the migra in Canada:

“The overarching message that’s being communicated is that here in Canada you don’t have to worry about the immigration authorities cracking down on illegal immigrants.”

But actually, Canada is not accepting every single refugee claim, says the article:

“From January to June of this year, more then 3,000 Mexican refugee claims were referred to the refugee board. Of the 1,123 claims that were finalized in that period, 13 per cent were accepted.”

So see, says Mayor Francis:

” ‘Maybe if we have these hearings and they’re dealt with, people will see that it’s not as easy as they think it is,’ Francis said.”

But don’t misunderstand the Windsor mayor:

“Francis said he’s not trying to send the refugees out in to the cold, but stressed the city can’t handle the strain. ‘I empathize with them,’ he said, ‘but they’re being fed wrong information down in the U.S.’ “

Maybe they should just come back to Mexico.

Jesse Jackson has said that Obama is “too white,” over the “Jena 6″ case, because Obama doesn’t automatically support the six black kids who tried to kick a white kid to death. I wonder if he’ll get as much grief as Steve Sailer did for saying essentially the same thing. Here’s Steve’s analysis:

The brutal truth: Obama is a "wigger". He’s a remarkably exotic variety of the faux African-American, but a wigger nonetheless. He has no ancestors who were slaves in the U.S. Moreover, his upbringing by his white mother and Indonesian stepfather in Indonesia and by his white grandparents in Hawaii, where mixed-race children are close to the norm, was almost wholly divorced from African-American life … except for what he could see and aspire to on TV.

[VDARE.com: 01/02/07 - White Guilt, Obamania, And The Reality Of Race< /a>]

Listen to Joe’s latest conversation with Phoenix News immigration podcast host Todd Hartley here.

Joe talks about Bush’s speech five months ago in Yuma which was the basis for his VDARE.COM column “Put Bush on the 3:10 To Yuma!”

Earlier podcasts are found on the same link. They include Joe’s earlier three and Peter Brimelow discussing the dangers of legal immigration.