Take It From A Local...Bill O'Reilly Is Right, Virginia Beach Is A Sanctuary For Illegal Aliens!
By Dave Gibson (04/13/07)
The recent news of two Virginia Beach, Va. girls killed by an illegal alien drunk driver has caught the angry attention of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. He has put the spotlight on that city's Mayor and Police Chief and has characterized the resort city as a place where drunken Mexican invaders are allowed to roam freely. While city leaders have bristled at his accusations, Bill O'Reilly got it right. I live here and I am a daily witness to the unlawful transformation of this once beautiful city.
Less than two weeks ago, Mexican national Alfredo Ramos slammed into the rear of the vehicle in which Allison Kuhnhardt and Tessa Tranchant were stopped while waiting at a traffic light. Ramos, 22 was traveling at a high rate of speed and was drunk at the time (he blew a .14 BAC). The two high school students had to be cut from their crumpled car and both later died after being taken to the hospital. Ramos suffered only a busted lip.
Though an illegal alien, Alfredo Ramos had been living in Virginia Beach for quite a while and worked at local a Mexican restaurant known as Mi Casita. Ramos has been previously convicted of three separate charges of public intoxication, identity theft, and most recently a DUI. He speaks only Spanish and required an interpreter at his arraignment.
While Ramos had already been convicted of a DUI, Virginia Beach policy requires an illegal alien to be convicted of three DUI's before the police will report them to immigration authorities. Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney Harvey Bryant recently confirmed the policy.
The two girls which Ramos killed were ages 16 and 17. Tessa Tranchant's brother Dylan had only been home from Iraq for two weeks, when his sister was killed. Dylan was tasked with identifying his little sister's body.
While the leadership of Virginia Beach has never formally declared the city to be a 'sanctuary' for illegal aliens, the way the leadership of Chicago or Houston have done, it is every bit the haven to invaders that those two cities represent. Virginia Beach is dominated by hotels and housing developers, both of which hire tremendous numbers of illegal aliens.
Crooked hotel owners often declare that they could simply not operate without the influx of Mexican and Central American nationals who can frequently be seen passed out drunk on the beach during the summer. The city has also built thousands of over-priced cookie cutter homes in the last several years, most of which have been constructed by illegal Mexican labor and the practice shows no sign of ending. Rest assured, Mayor Meyra Obendorf never makes a move without consulting with her masters in the hotel and construction industries.
The building boom has turned local convenience and home improvement store parking lots into gathering spots for groups of often drunken Latino men. While the city is very happy raking in huge profits in increased real estate taxes, they pass precious little of that revenue on to the citizens. While having a population of 450,000 residents, Virginia Beach still relies solely on a volunteer rescue squad for medical emergencies.
Virginia Beach Police Chief Jake Jacocks went on the offensive and claimed that O'Reilly was wrong in focusing on the fact that Ramos was an illegal alien. He accused the Fox News commentator of turning the girls' deaths into a "political issue." However, local ABC affiliate WVEC showed that the police chief was at least culpable in the tragedy when they reported that "Chief Jacocks says the policy of not reporting illegals until after three DUI charges was his idea. He hoped it would let illegal immigrants feel comfortable if they were involved in an accident."
Last week, Mayor Obendorf told reporters: "I never want anyone to miss the fact that someone who was drunk caused the death of two innocent young women, and it had nothing to do with nationality or anyone doing anything inappropriate as far as the government is concerned."
Despite the Mayor's and Police Chief's insistence that Ramos' illegal status had nothing to do with the loss of Kuhnhardt and Tranchant, they are simply passing the buck. At some point, someone of conscience has to make a stand and say enough! Unfortunately, for those two girls, no one made that stand.
Two girls who had their whole lives ahead of them are now dead because gutless politicians refused to uphold their responsibility to the taxpayers, in favor of big business. Mayor Obendorf and Police Chief Jacocks should be put on trial along with Alfredo Ramos!
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