Bloodthirsty Liberal

We allowed her to overstay her visa for decades, turned a blind eye to her illegal contribution to her nephew’s campaign, and even gave her subsidized housing—against express regulations to the contrary. And when she got caught, we excused everything, as if her nephew himself had issued a blanket pardon.

No wonder she’s so sad:

Auntie Zeituni has written a book. It’s called “Tears of Abuse,” on account of how tough she’s had it.

Have I read it? Of course not. Have you read her nephew’s best-seller — Dreams from My Ghostwriter, I mean Father? No one has — it’s sold millions of copies, but until two weeks ago, not a single reader got far enough into it to learn that Obama was a dog-eater with “composite” girlfriends.

Anyway, I have the press release on “Tears of Abuse,” which describes Auntie Zeituni’s journey to the United States “where she faces the unthinkable; failing health and quarantined in a hospital while on vacation in a foreign country.”

Vacation? Surely she meant to say “welfare.”

“As her story unfolds she becomes a resident of (a) homeless shelter and a subject of deportation.”

How dare they! Just because she’s an illegal alien, they want to deport her.

Have they forgotten the immortal words of Marsha Coakley: “Technically it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.”

And if you don’t believe Marsha, just ask Uncle Omar, Auntie Zeituni’s brother, or half-brother, or whatever. Technically, it is also apparently not illegal to be driving drunk illegally in Massachusetts, at least if you’re an illegal alien.

“Quarantined” in a Massachusetts hospital? How many sick people around the world do you think would choose to be “quarantined” in this mecca for medical care? All of them, give or take, right? And how much, I wonder, did that set her back financially? Was she also under “house arrest” in the subsidized house she somehow received over other candidates, more legal, if not more worthy?

“‘Tears of Abuse’ reveals how this remarkable woman turns the unfathomable into triumph.”

Public housing, on the dole — what else would you call it but a triumph? The inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty needs to be rewritten. Forget the huddled masses yearning to “breathe free.” Now the huddled masses demand to “live free.”

Speaking of “the homeless, tempest-tost,” Uncle Omar gets his driver’s license back today. I hope nobody at the registry is even thinking of slapping that $100 license-restoration fee on this proud Kenyan illegal alien assistant manager of Conti’s Liquors in Framingham. That restoration fee is for U.S. citizens only.

Howie’s right, though. Democrats don’t have the habit of reading the actual documents they favor. ObamaCare, Dreams of Barack’s Father (Wm. Ayers, author), I, Zeituni—no one actually reads them. They just feel them. You provide the abuse, we provide the tears. It’s a win-win.

Count yourself lucky!

An Ecuadoran court has sentenced Luis Guaman to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty under that country’s criminal code, for the beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son last year in Brockton.

The sentence appeared online late Monday, one week after three judges in the city of Cuenca declared Guaman guilty of murdering housemate Maria Avelina Palaguachi, 25, and her son, Brian, in February 2011 and dumping their bodies in a trash bin behind their house. Guaman will get credit for several months served in jail and must pay a fine of $10,000 to the victims’ family, according to the decision handed down by the Third Criminal Court of Azuay in Cuenca.

Presiding Judge Azucena Andrade said Tuesday she expects Guaman to serve the majority of his sentence, despite concerns that he could get time off for good behavior.

“These are two murders, that’s why we gave him the maximum,’’ she said in a telephone interview, citing the seriousness of the crimes. “We want him to serve the 25 years.’’

The sentence followed a controversial two-day trial in Ecuador held over the objections of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, who demanded that Ecuador extradite Guaman to Massachusetts based on the existing extradition treaty between the two nations, or face economic sanctions.

Ecuador refused, saying its constitution bars extradition of its own citizens. Instead, Ecuadoran officials implored Cruz to help them prosecute Guaman in Ecuador, though he refused.

If convicted in Massachusetts, Guaman would have faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. In Ecuador, he faced 16 to 25 years in prison.

I don’t know what the “proper” punishment is for beating two people to death, one a toddler, and I don’t even pretend to know the details of the extradition treaty between the US and Ecuador.

But there is one thing I do want to know—although it took 18 paragraphs and a jump page to get there:

Guaman, who lived in the United States illegally for almost two decades…

Really, was that so hard? This reporter, Maria Sacchetti, is the Gob’s go-to gal on immigration sob stories. When an illegal—sorry, undocumented—alien feels sad or has a bad day, you’ll read about it under her byline, immigration status front and center. But when an illegal—sorry, criminal—alien is caught driving drunk without a license, or beating beating his significant other, or committing armed robbery, or forging documents, or taking state benefits to which they are not entitled, you’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of their status. You’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of the story at all in the Glob, in fact. Not their sort of thing.

We hear more and more stories of illegal aliens living here unmolested for decades. Some are relatively harmless, like the president’s Auntie Zeituni (though she should not have qualified for the subsidized housing she enjoyed); some are slightly less harmless, like the president’s Uncle Omar (stopped for a DUI); and some are definitely harmful, like Luis Guaman (no relation to the president—that we know of).

Oh yes, in case you thought Guaman lived a life of quiet desperation:

Meanwhile, more details emerged about Guaman’s criminal history in New York.William Barbera, a captain in the sheriff’s department in Rockland County, New York, said Guaman lived at several addresses in Spring Valley, about 26 miles north of New York City, between 2006 and 2008.

Guaman went by several aliases, including Luis Gilbert Caguana, Barbera said.

In January 2008, according to The Journal News newspaper, Guaman, then of Brockton, was charged with two counts of second-degree attempted kidnapping and one count of second-degree assault, both felonies, after he allegedly attempted to abduct his estranged wife, a 30-year-old Spring Valley woman.

The woman said she arranged to meet Jose Zumba Pichizaca, also of Brockton, at a health center, and that he was to deliver money from Guaman.

The woman said Pichizaca told her they would drive to a check-cashing store, but when she got in the car, Guaman was hiding under a blanket in the back seat and Pichizaca sped off against her will.

The women said she tried to escape when the car stopped at a gas station in Spring Valley, but Guaman grabbed her and held her down in the car. As she pulled away, her shirt came off and she was scratched on her neck and chest.

A police officer from the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department was in an unmarked car nearby and witnessed the event. Both Guaman and Pichizaca were arrested.

Barbera said Guaman is wanted on four felony warrants in Rockland, two issued by his office and two issued by the Spring Valley police.

Spring Valley Detective Dave Humeston said Guaman’s aliases have made it difficult to investigate his crimes. He told The Journal News that authorities from Massachusetts would be in Spring Valley on Friday to further investigate the case.

Cruz said this week that Guaman was also wanted on a warrant charging him with assault and battery on a former girlfriend in Milford in 2007.

Guaman, under the alias Antonio Castro, was also arrested by Brockton police last year after allegedly pulling a knife during a fight behind 62 North Warren Ave. Bail was set at $500 in that case and he was due to return to court on March 11.

And somehow, no one saw fit to look into his eligibility to be in this country? He did eventually leave, but at his leisure, and on a stolen or fraudulent passport.

To borrow a cliche, we are a nation of immigrants—and we are the better for it. But a nation of illegal immigrants? I’m not so sure the same applies. I’m quite sure it doesn’t.

Brilliant.

A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans appear to be leaving the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

It looks to be the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birthrate and other factors may make it permanent.

“I think the massive boom in Mexican immigration is over and I don’t think it will ever return to the numbers we saw in the 1990s and 2000s,” said Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project, which has been gathering data on the subject for 30 years.

Nearly 1.4 million Mexicans moved from the United States to Mexico between 2005 and 2010, double the number who did so a decade earlier. The number of Mexicans who moved to the United States during that period fell to less than half of the 3 million who came between 1995 and 2000.
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According to the report, the Mexican-born population, which had been increasing since 1970, peaked at 12.6 million in 2007 and has dropped to 12 million since then.

The reversal appears to be a result of tightened border controls, a weak U.S. job and housing construction market, a rise in deportations and a decline in Mexican birthrates, said the study, which used U.S. and Mexican census figures and Mexican government surveys. Arrests of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States have also dropped precipitously in recent years.

Heckuva job, Barry! And a question to our more skeptical readers: What percentage of the decline in illegal immigrants is due to the decline in the US economy?

- Aggie

Hadn’t heard this, though I’m not surprised:

A Moroccan man who allegedly wanted to conduct a suicide bombing attack on the US Capitol had considered attacking a synagogue, according to authorities.

Amine El Khalifi, 29, was arrested near the US Capitol on Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaida-supplied explosives and charged in an attempted suicide bombing of Congress, the Justice Department said.

In earlier conversations with undercover operatives, El Khalifi said he had also considered as targets a federal building in Alexandria, Virginia, a restaurant and a synagogue.

A restaurant? That’s an outrage! (I wonder if it was the one Barack and Michelle went to on their date night? The one with the fluke.)

Oh yeah, one more thing:

According to court records, El Khalifi entered the United States in 1999 on a visa, overstayed it and never applied for US citizenship.

Sigh…

I’ve always said that Republicans should be able to wrap up the Latin vote. If immigrants, legal and illegal, really want to build better lives for themselves, who represents that better, liberals or conservatives? If, rather, immigrants (illegal) just want to bend and break the rules and get all the free [bleep] they can get away with, we all know who caters to that.

Anyhow, Jeb Bush agrees with me:

Although Democrats hold the edge, Republicans have an opportunity. We also have a record of winning Hispanic voters in certain statewide and national elections. Here are four suggestions on how Republican candidates can regain momentum with the most powerful swing voters.

First, we need to recognize this is not a monochromatic community but, rather, a deeply diverse one. Hispanics in this country include Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and many others. Some came here 50 years ago to make a better life; others came last year. Some have lots of education, some have none. The traditional Republican emphasis on the importance of the individual has never been more relevant.

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Like all voters, Hispanics respond to candidates who show respect and understanding for their experiences.

Second, we should echo the aspirations of these voters. The American immigrant experience is the most aspirational story ever told. Immigrants left all that was familiar to them to come here and make a better life for their families. That they believe this is possible only in America is the best expression of American exceptionalism I know. And on this score, Republicans have a winning message and record as the party of the entrepreneur. We are the party of the family business, and the family business is the economic heart of Hispanic communities.

Third, we should press for an overhaul of our education system. Republicans have the field to themselves on this issue. Teachers unions and education bureaucrats have blocked Democrats from serious reform — it will happen only with Republican political leadership. But we have to move beyond simplistic plans to “get rid of the Department of Education” and focus on substantive, broad-based reform that includes school choice, robust accountability for underperforming schools and the elimination of social promotion, in which kids are passed along without mastering grade-level skills. Such improvements, it was noted in 2009, plus efforts to embrace digital learning, helped Hispanic students in Florida lead the nation among their peers. And Hispanic voters, who often feel their children are trapped in failing schools, notice.

Finally, we need to think of immigration reform as an economic issue, not just a border security issue. Numerous polls show that Hispanics agree with Republicans on the necessity of a secure border and enforceable and fair immigration laws to reduce illegal immigration and strengthen legal immigration.

Hispanics recognize that Democrats have failed to deliver on immigration reform, having chosen to spend their political capital on other priorities.

Republicans should reengage on this issue and reframe it. Start by recognizing that new Americans strengthen our economy. We need more people to come to this country, ready to work and to contribute their creativity to our economy. U.S. immigration policies should reflect that principle. Just as Republicans believe in free trade of goods, we should support the freer flow of human talent.

Let’s clear a couple of things up. First, as should be clear, when we use the word “immigrants”, we mean Hispanic immigrants. And when we use the word “immigrants”, we have to be clear whether we mean legal or illegal. There’s a difference. Americans, be they first generation or Mayflower descendants, believe in fairness and the rule of law. More than maybe anything else, that’s what we admire about ourselves and attracts others here.

So, when we read about people breaking our laws to get here (or stay here past their invited time), obtaining fraudulent IDs to gain access to work or benefits they’re not entitled to, live apart from American society rather than join in it (often by necessity of their illegal status), wiring money to their native countries instead of investing and spending it here, only to drop us like a hot potato when the economic or legal climate grows hostile, we are a little reluctant to offer perks like in-state tuition rates and automatic citizenship to parents of so-called “anchor babies”. It’s not fair—not to any American citizen, least of all to a recently naturalized one from a Hispanic country who followed the rules.

The illegal alien may argue that it’s not fair to him that he has had to live the life of a second-class citizen, and he may have a point. Of course, that’s the path he chose, and his second-class life is first-class with extra leg room and complimentary champagne compared to the life he left behind—else why would he choose to stay here?

But at least we agree that there has to be an accommodation based on fairness. We’ve tried amnesties, even last chance, this time we mean it, seriously, amnesties—but they don’t work. Ultimately, what will work will have to be based on fairness—and deterrence.

But if Republicans argue that their future and the future of immigrants are inextricably tied, and that fairness is inextricably tied to opportunity, they may be able to close the sale. The future of our country depends on it.

This is how Israel handles illegal aliens:

Illegal infiltrators will be transferred to the new housing center when it is built; NIS 250 million will be allocated for this purpose. At the center, infiltrators who cannot be returned to their country of origin or to a third country will be provided with all of their basic needs: Lodging, food and health services. An additional NIS 100 million will be allocated to operate and maintain the center.

A plan will be formulated for deporting illegal work infiltrators.

This is how Egypt handles illegal aliens:

Four African migrants, possibly Sudanese, were killed Saturday by the Egyptian border police as they tried to illegally cross the border into Israel, an Egyptian security services official said.

They were reportedly part of a group trying to cross the Egyptian-Israeli border in the company of smugglers.

Of course, I could have chosen from many, many examples.

Tree? It’s a bramble, a briar patch:

That’s the Daily Mail’s (UK) valiant but fruitless effort to explain the complicated relations between all Obamas, great and small.

But they sure do share some traits, not least gaming the system:

President Obama’s illegal alien half-uncle argued in court today that his arrest on a drunken driving charge this summer violated his constitutional rights and he wants evidence suppressed and the case thrown out.

Onyango Obama’s lawyer said in Framingham District Court today that he will file a motion to suppress an Aug. 24 traffic stop, claiming he questions the legality of the illegal alien’s arrest on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. The arrest, Attorney P. Scott Bratton said, violated Obama’s Fourth Amendment right against unlawful search and seizure.

The motion to suppress will be for the entire traffic stop by police in Framingham that night on claims Obama was not committing any motor vehicle violations.

Obama blew a .14 on the Breathalyzer following the 7 p.m. stop, police reported, well above the legal limit of .08.

It’s pretty rich for a non-citizen of this country, a man who lived in defiance of an order for his deportation for nearly 20 years, to cite his Constitutional rights. Which is just about how long his nephew listened to the antisemitic, anti-American sewage spewed by Jeremiah Wright—and claimed he never heard it.

Omar also knows what state he lives in. While the rest of the country is flushing the Obamaville encampments away, a local judge ruled Occupy Boston-ians are welcome to squat as long as they like. I’d say Omar has a better than even chance of beating this, and even moving up on the list for public housing, like his sister (if I have that right), Aunti Zeituni.

[This is going to have to become a standing headline.]

When Massachusetts AG (and Scott Brown’s bitch) Martha Coakley infamously said “technically, it’s not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts”, she was just blazing a trail:

The Society of Professional Journalists strikes a blow for linguistic justice:

The Society of Professional Journalists, hearing an emotional plea from Rebecca Aguilar, a member of SPJ and of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, voted Tuesday to recommend that newsrooms discontinue using the terms “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant.” The resolution from the 7,800-member organization says only courts can decide when a person has committed an illegal act.

“Professional ……………………………………………………. Journalists”?

Don’t those words repel each other? Put together, they repel me.

I wonder if Ms. Aguilar would allow for “alleged” illegal aliens or “accused” illegal aliens. Or even “prematurely illegal” aliens. But she makes a fair point. Illicit border crossing or unauthorized visa overstaying—plus the requisite document theft or forgery, tax avoidance, unlicensed driving, etc.—aren’t crimes unless and until the (putative) criminal alien is convicted. So, when the gentleman here (ostensibly) illegally from Ecuador dragged the motorcyclist under his truck, then backed over him and killed him, all while drunk as a skunk, he was as law-abiding as an Eagle Scout. He’ll be an illegal alien only after he is (supposedly) convicted at a trial in which his legal representation will be paid for by the state whose laws he broke (in advance).

Speaking of Uncle Omar (see below), at least he’s not freeloading off the American system like his (formerly) illegal half-sister Auntie Zeituni:

President Obama’s illegal alien half uncle, though facing a deportation order, is back on the job at a mom-and-pop grog shop in Framingham, his lawyer said yesterday — leaving advocates of tough immigration enforcement bewildered and outraged.

“It’s inexcusable,” said Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “The problem is that deportable aliens are being held in legal limbo because the Obama administration is getting cute with the rules and loose with the lot.”

Onyango Obama, 67, was in court yesterday for an appearance on his Aug. 24 drunken driving charge, before which his lawyer, P. Scott Bratton, confirmed to the Herald that Obama has resumed work at Conti Liquors after his release from custody earlier this month after being jailed on an immigration detainer.

Why should the owner of Conti Liquors respect the law when no one else does? Not the illegals themselves, surely—and just as surely the state government:

The fierce battle over illegal immigration intensified yesterday as tough-talking sheriffs compared the problem to terrorism, sign-waving protesters interrupted the lawmen’s State House press conference and Sen. Scott Brown demanded the feds let the Bay State bypass Gov. Deval Patrick and join the Secure Communities program.

“My constituents have made it abundantly clear to me that they view Secure Communities as an important public safety tool that could have prevented deadly incidents that have rocked their communities,” Brown wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano. “I strongly encourage (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) to swiftly and expeditiously activate the remaining jurisdictions in Massachusetts.”

Meanwhile, three sheriffs warned that the Bay State is becoming a “magnet” for illegal aliens and vowed to crack down — with or without Patrick’s support.

“Much like terrorists, they’re looking for a place to go where nobody’s going to notice them,” said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. “And if we’re sending out a message that this is where you can basically come and we’re not really going to pay much attention to your status, well, it’s no wonder we’re running into the kinds of problems we are.”

The emotional issue has heated up after a spate of appalling crimes allegedly committed by illegal aliens.

That last part is true. The president’s uncle was merely driving drunk. He didn’t kill or cripple anybody. He ought to be given a medal.

But it ain’t just the state cutting illegals slack:

The Obama administration is escalating its crackdown on tough immigration laws, with lawyers reviewing four new state statutes to determine whether the federal government will take the extraordinary step of challenging the measures in court.

Justice Department attorneys have sued Arizona and Alabama, where a federal judge on Wednesday allowed key parts of that state’s immigration law to take effect but blocked other provisions. Federal lawyers are talking to Utah officials about a third possible lawsuit and are considering legal challenges in Georgia, Indiana, and South Carolina, according to court documents and government officials.

The level of federal intervention is highly unusual, legal experts said, especially because civil rights groups have already sued most of those states. Typically, the government files briefs or seeks to intervene in other lawsuits filed against state statutes.

“I don’t recall any time in history that the Justice Department has so aggressively challenged state laws,’’ said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University Law School.

Can you blaming me for thinking that there are other illegal relations to the president out there? Maybe they don’t want to turn up an illegal second cousin or something. We know it sure as heck won’t be his brother!

Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

An illegal alien who was driving without a license hit and dragged an 11-year-old Ipswich girl with his truck as she was riding her bicycle to school yesterday, authorities said.

Wanderson DaSilva-Neto, 35, a Brazilian national who was wanted by immigration authorities, was pulling out of his High Street driveway shortly after 7 a.m. on his way to work when his 1998 GMC pickup truck struck and dragged the screaming girl about four feet, a witness told police.

The Ipswich Middle School student, who was not wearing a helmet, was conscious and sitting on the sidewalk when officers arrived.

She was taken to Beverly Hospital with minor injuries, police said.

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Police were booking DaSilva-Neto for negligent operation of a motor vehicle, unlicensed operation and failure to use care in starting or stopping when they found he was wanted for deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Nikas said. An ICE spokesman was unable to provide details on the case.

Although DaSilva-Neto’s fingerprints matched his name, Assistant District Attorney Tom Sholds questioned his identity because there is no license associated with the registration number of his vehicle.

Just one story in just one newspaper. Glad the girl’s going to be okay.

They may be small, shriveled fruit—but we can just juice ‘em:

Hispanics now make up the largest group of children living in poverty, the first time in U.S. history that poor white kids have been outnumbered by poor children of another race or ethnicity, according to a new study.

In a report released Wednesday, the Pew Hispanic Center said that 6.1 million Hispanic children are poor, compared with 5 million non-Hispanic white children and 4.4 million black children. Pew said Hispanic poverty numbers have soared because of the impact of the recession on the growing number of Latinos.

Growing number, huh? I guess they’re taking welfare Americans won’t take.

If I were a liberal, I’d say since they’d be in poverty somewhere, might as well be here!

We in Massachusetts are in a unique position. Yes, we have our heads up our a**es, but that’s hardly a unique position—anyway, I mean metaphorically. With RomneyCare, a Democrat-dominated State House, and Obama’s little brother, Deval Patrick, we are a microcosm of Obama’s experiment in government.

Take illegal immigration—please!

Last week a group of Massachusetts sheriffs reached out directly to the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and arranged to send fingerprints of arrested individuals in their custody to ICE. Gov. Deval Patrick, who adamantly opposes the Secure Communities program, reacted angrily:

“We already send all the fingerprints we gather to the federal government. The only thing the sheriffs are doing that’s different from what we do already is grabbing headlines.”

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Now, the first part of that statement is factual but false.

Yes, the Patrick administration supports sending fingerprints to the FBI and, yes, that’s part of the “federal government.” Alas, it’s not the part of the federal government that has anything to do with immigration. No doubt Patrick would support sending fingerprints to the Smithsonian or Mount Rushmore, too.

What the sheriffs are doing is sending the prints to the only place that matters, and that’s a policy Patrick continues to oppose.

Which make his other claims — the sheriffs aren’t “doing anything different,” those are “our policies” — out and out lies. Whoppers. Utterly untrue.

Yeah, but illegal immigration is a victimless crime, right?

First there was the horrifying case of Matthew Denice, a 23-year-old Milford man crushed to death allegedly by a drunk-driving, repeat-offender illegal immigrant. Patrick’s response: No change in policy is required?.?.?.?we already send all fingerprints?.?.?.?blah, blah, blah.

Just days later, President Barack Obama’s Uncle Omar — more than 20 years illegally living and working in Massachusetts — was busted for OUI. And again Patrick insisted that all is well. “We don’t need to change our policy,” he insisted.

And now it’s the Eduardo Alementa Torres case. Not 24 hours after Patrick’s attacks on the “headline-grabbing” sheriffs, Torres is arrested for his sixth OUI. Not only has he been deported at least once already, but he’s wanted by the Department of Homeland Security.

And still, if it were up to Patrick, Torres’ prints wouldn’t have been sent to ICE.

And just this morning, I read this heartbreaking story in my Boston Gob:

MARSHFIELD – Patricia Frois had finally left.

She had moved out of the second-floor home she shared with her boyfriend, Marcello Almeida, at the Village of Marshfield Apartments on Saturday after another episode in what family and friends described as a volatile and violent relationship. A neighbor on the first floor took her in, allowing Frois, 24, a place to stay while she figured out her next move.

But she ran out of clothes and was sneaking upstairs to grab something to wear to work yesterday morning when she ran into Almeida in the foyer, a neighbor said. She thought he would have already left for work by 8 a.m.

Investigators said Almeida stabbed Frois repeatedly, injuring himself in the process.

Frois, who relatives said has a 5-year-old son with Almeida, died at a hospital 30 minutes later.

Heartbreaking, yes, BTL, but relevant how?

Patience:

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Almeida had a Brazilian passport. In a statement issued last night, Cruz’s office said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no record of Almeida entering the country legally.

The visa number on his passport was issued to a Kuwaiti woman in Beirut in 2003.

Investigators said they were trying to confirm Almeida’s identity.

The 22nd paragraph, if I count correctly. But the story immediately makes the point that illegals are reluctant to report domestic violence for fear of going to the authorities. The story doesn’t mention her immigration status, but who can deny she would be alive today if Almeida had been deported? Or that Matthew Denice would be alive if the illegal repeat offender drunk driver had been deported?

Deval Patrick holds our safety in less esteem than political favoritism. Listen for the echo from the Obama administration.