WRAL, a North Carolina television station, put together a 21-minute documentary about the scourge of drunk-driving illegal aliens. The piece used as an example the death of Scott Gardner at the hands of a drunk Mexican with several prior DUI convictions.

Not only was Scott killed in the crash, but his wife Tina was badly injured and remains in a nursing home, unable to walk or speak. Their two children are being raised by Tina’s parents and are effectively orphans.

As Emily Moose, Scott’s mom, remarked, “Life as we expected it was taken away. John and I thought we were at a point in our life where we thought we were going to watch our children raise their children. And that was all changed in the flash of a moment — how tomorrow was removed.”

Another family torn apart by Washington’s open-borders policy.

Click on Focal Point: Crossing the Line and scroll down the page to where it says “Watch the Documentary” to view online. It is infuriating, in several ways.

Although drunken drivers come in all colors and from all cultures, an unusually high number of them in North Carolina are Hispanic immigrants.

A study from the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center shows that Hispanics involved in car crashes were two-and-a-half times more likely to be drunk than white drivers and three times more likely to be drunk than black drivers.

Hispanics also account for 18 percent of drunken-driving arrests, while making up less than 7 percent of the state’s population. Drunken driving is also the number one killer of young Hispanic men in North Carolina.

So why is there such a high rate of drunken driving among Hispanics in North Carolina? Some say young Hispanic men consider drinking and driving a macho right of passage. Advocates say many who immigrate here did not drive a car back in their home country and have not been exposed to anti-drunken-driving messages and driver safety education.
[Focal Point: Crossing the Line, WRAL-TV, December 5, 2007]

One weakness of this otherwise powerful doc is how it skirts the issue that driver’s licenses are de facto identification. And exposing hispanics to educational public service announcements in Spanish is unlikely to change the culture of drunk driving among Mexicans who believe that drinking mass quantities of booze and then piloting a vehicle is muy macho.

See also the Gardner Family Circle remembrance and activism website.

But I just put one up below, on racial profiling. And you should go to the front page, where Peter Brimelow is appealing to you to support VDARE.com over Christmas. I said recently that this affects me personally, and you can see a reference to my personal Tiny Tim story on the blog here, from a previous Christmas.

This is fairly typical:

Michelle Malkin » Black ACLU official accuses black troopers of racial profiling
Stupid, reckless lawsuit of the day award goes to King Downing, an anti-profiling crusader and ACLU official who is suing the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the Boston Logan airport, and Massachusetts State Police, because he was asked for identification in 2003.

Boston Logan is where the 9/11 hijackers took off from.
Here’s a different take on the question:

RealClearPolitics - Articles - ‘Driving While Black’
October 31, 2007
By Thomas Sowell

Twice within the past few years, I have been pulled over by the police for driving at night without my headlights on. My car is supposed to turn on the headlights automatically when the light outside is below a certain level, but sometimes I accidentally brush against the controls and inadvertently switch them to manual.

Both times I thanked the policeman because he may well have saved my life. Neither time did I get a ticket or even a warning. In each case, the policeman was white.

This, of course, is why Thomas Sowell isn’t going to be head of the ACLU any time soon.

Recently a well-known black journalist told me of a very different experience. He happened to be riding along in a police car driven by a white policeman. Ahead of them was a car driving at night with no headlights on and, in the dark, it was impossible to see who was driving it.

When the policeman pulled the car over, a black driver got out and, when the policeman told him that he was driving without his lights on, the driver said, “You only pulled me over because I am black!”

This was said even though he saw the black man who was with the policeman. The driver got a ticket.

Later, when the journalist asked the cop how often he got such responses from black drivers, the reply was “About 80 percent of the time.”

When the same journalist asked the same question of black cops, the answer was about 30 percent of the time — lower, but still an amazing percentage under the circumstances.

In the King Downing case (see the complaint in PDF) the troopers were black like him:

Logan officials say race played no role in the decision to question Downing. The first trooper to ask Downing for identification was black, and three of the four officers who arrived later were also black, according to court documents. The first trooper said he became suspicious when he saw Downing watching him.

Perhaps he was racially profiling them. After the Cincinnati riots in 2001, Fred Reed made the radical suggestion that black area should be policed only by black cops, so as to reduce racial friction. This shows that wouldn’t be a solution.