If there’s anything more heartbreaking than a holiday death at the hands of an illegal alien, I don’t know what it is. Last Thanksgiving, Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews and his date Jennifer Bower were killed by a drunk-driving illegal.

Of course, there’s no good day for a family member to be struck down in a cruel and preventable crime. But for as long as they live, those related to the dead young man will remember Thanksgiving as the occasion of his untimely death.

Andrew Newell, 22, of Boone, North Carolina, was killed when the Lexus SUV in which he was a passenger was struck by a vehicle driven by Juan Manuel Juarez Reyes, a previously deported Mexican. Andrew’s father Brian remains hospitalized with critical injuries, while his mother Sallie Ellis Newell and sister Jacqueline Elizabeth, 18, were treated and released.

The Lexus was so mangled by the force of the crash that it took rescuers 45 minutes to extricate the victims from the wreck.

Family members said the Newells were returning from a Thanksgiving trip to South Carolina and were only a quarter-mile from home.

Authorities said Monday that Juarez Reyes was caught in the country by Border Patrol agents in 2002 and was sent back to Mexico. They aren’t sure when he re-entered the United States.

Police say he was speeding and drunk when the crash happened.

Juarez Reyes is charged with driving while impaired, driving without a license and three counts of felonious assault with a deadly weapon causing serious injury by vehicle.
[Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Driving Drunk, Causing Fatal Boone Crash, WSOC-TV 11/26/07]

How sad that the Newell family was only a few blocks from the safety of home.

Diversity enthusiasts like the idea that America does assimilation better than Europe, which is rapidly devolving into Eurabia as a result of self-destructive policies of welcoming millions of hostile Muslims.

Many Sons of Allah like residing in America in order to make piles of money. But assimilate to the values of individual freedom that make that prosperity possible? Not so much.

Muslims particularly do not agree with gender equality in law and society, and they continue their Islamic custom of enslaving women here in the land of the free, just as they have in Europe and in their countries of origin. The occurrence of honor killing in Europe against disobedient females has been a disturbing symptom of the new diversity.

Now we learn that Pakistani parents in America routinely beat, drug and threaten their daughters with murder in order to force arranged marriages upon them. Describing New York City and environs…

It’s a well-kept secret in Pakistani homes across the city: Young women violently forced to return to their homeland for arranged marriages. [...]

In homes throughout the metropolitan area, violence against thousands of young women who are forced to go back to Pakistan to wed is shamelessly hushed as a “family matter.”

“Eighty percent of the community has this problem” in New York, said Bazah Roohi of the Asian American Network Against Abuse of Human Rights (ANAA). “Women don’t have their own choice.

“They try to fight. They are unsuccessful. Parents are very strict. They just beat them and take them to Pakistan.
[Parents force daughters to fly home to Pakistan for arranged marriages New York Daily News 11//25/07]

In the words of Parapundit (Randall Parker), “Muslims are nature’s way of telling us that multiculturalism is a really bad idea.”

Allan Wall is scheduled to appear on the George Putnam Show, on Tuesday November 27th, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. You can listen here.