This one is for you, Martillo. In the four months that I have had BrokenCountry.com up and running, illegal aliens have killed 11 Americans in accidents with 8 of these accidents involving alcohol. In all but one of these accidents, the automobile and driver were uninsured and unlicensed. This means that there is no compensation to the family of the victim. In four of these incidents it was a mother of children who were killed, and in three of the other incidents it was a father.

In all 11 accidents the illegal alien lived and had to be cared for at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer. Keep in mind that these are just the accidents across America where the newspapers aren’t liberal rags and they will actually use the word s “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.” I have counted 13 other articles where they failed to mention the status of the persons involved but it was implied that they quite possibly were in the United States illegally.

JD

He had no license; alcohol level three times the legal limit

By JUSTIN BOGGS

Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE — The drunken motorist who fatally injured a California Highway Patrol officer Saturday night is a suspected illegal immigrant from Mexico who was driving without a license, officials said Monday.

Domingo Esqueda, 20, of Adelanto had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when he veered off northbound Interstate 15 near Oak Hill Road and crashed into CHP Officer Gregory Bailey’s motorcycle and a parked pickup truck, CHP officials said.

Esqueda is scheduled to be arraigned in Superior Court in Victorville today. He is being held at West Valley Detention Center with bail set at $100,000, according to the sheriff’s booking log. He was arrested for vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. At the time of his arrest, he was found in possession of multiple forms of identification with different names, officials said.

Bailey, 36, of Adelanto, was on his way home when he pulled over a pickup truck. He was talking with the pickup truck driver when Esqueda slammed into his motorcycle and the parked truck. Bailey was airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center where he died. Esqueda and the driver of the pickup, Francisco Trujillo, 52, of Lucerne Valley both suffered minor injuries.

Bailey’s death — the sixth death of a CHP officer since September — sent shock waves throughout the CHP. The agency’s commissioner, Mike L. Brown has ordered a “stand down” at all 108 CHP offices.

Commanders at each CHP station will be reviewing safety guidelines and allowing all officers the opportunity to vent their concerns about safety policies and procedures, said Capt. Doug Rich of the Victorville CHP office.

“We’re going to look at the policies and procedures and make sure that we are keeping everybody as safe as we can,” Rich said. “Over the next couple of days we will be conducting training sessions with a significant emphasis on our policies and procedures.”

Rich noted that all of the officers who had been killed since September — three of whom were killed by an alleged drunken driver — were correctly following all safety procedures.

Though the agency is on stand down, there will be absolutely no interruptions to the services CHP provides, said Officer Rosa Ray, a spokeswoman for the CHP office in Rancho Cucamonga where Bailey was assigned.

Ray added that officers from other CHP stations had been called in to cover shifts so that officers at the Rancho Cucamonga station would be allowed the opportunity to grieve or attend a counseling session.

Officers at the Victorville station were feeling the impact of losing one of their own. Rich said that though Bailey’s death was a terrible tragedy, his department was doing its best to stay focused on continuing to maintain the high quality of service that CHP has always provided.

“Obviously we’re all taking it a little rough,” said Sgt. Robert Grieve of the CHP office in Victorville. “But we have to continue doing our jobs to make sure this type of thing doesn’t happen again.”

Bailey was a 10-year veteran of the CHP and had previously been assigned to the Barstow station. He had recently returned from a 15-month tour of duty in Iraq with the Army National Guard. Bailey is survived by his wife and four young children.

Bailey’s funeral services are scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. at The Rock Church and World Outreach Center in San Bernardino, Ray said. The church is located at 2345 South Waterman Avenue.


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