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Comprehensive immigration reform has been a hot button issue for decades in this country. Immigration policy forces politicians and citizens alike to weigh economic and security concerns against humanitarian interests.
The current administration has approached this issue with an emphasis on “security first” regarding immigration policy, looking to slash immigration to the United States. Measures including the “travel ban,” the proposed border-wall with Mexico, and pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants all raise questions on how to balance keeping America safe from terrorism while still being a “nation of immigrants.”
Please join us for our next Jonathan Samen Hot Buttons, Cool Conversation event as we examine the Immigration Debate: Balancing Security and Compassion. This event is co-sponsored by Vilna Shul,
Boston's Center for Jewish Culture.
This is the description of the moderator.
Julia Preston is a Contributing Writer at The Marshall Project, a non-profit journalism organization focusing on criminal justice and immigration. She previously worked at The New York Times as the national correspondent covering immigration. Ms. Preston was a member of The New York Times staff that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on international affairs, for a series that revealed the corrosive effects of drug corruption in Mexico.
These are the three panelists.
Matthew Segal has been legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts since 2012. Leading a team of civil rights lawyers, he has litigated cases that halted the Muslim ban, overturned 21,587 wrongful convictions and protected cell phone location data. Previously, as an assistant federal defender, Matt argued a case that led to hundreds of exonerations and re-sentencings.
Rodrigo Saavedra is the Memory Program Director at the Ayni Institute, which focuses on creating a more reciprocal world through the development of training and research for social movements and preserving the wisdom and traditions of indigenous communities from around the world. A DACA recipient and community organizer, Rodrigo has appeared in major nationwide news outlets.
Jessica Vaughan serves as Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC-based immigration research institute. As an expert on immigration policy and operations, she educates policymakers and agencies on immigration topics. She has been widely published in the media, and has testified before Congress several times.
The A.C.L.U.'s web page for this event uses the same description of the event, the same description of the moderator, and the same description of all three panelists.
Information about F.A.I.R.
They are not participating in this debate, but I'm presenting this information so that you can have an advance look at some of the issues that could be discussed during this debate.
F.A.I.R. is the Federation for American Immigration Reform. All of the following quotes were copied from the About page on their own website.
Their self-description
As concerned Americans, we all share a responsibility to look to the future and envision where current policies may lead. Immigration is no different.
Immigration policies can determine what kind of America future generations will inherit – livable or overcrowded, successful or overburdened. While we see our obligations to help the less fortunate
around the world, we also know that irresponsible border policies can undermine our own nation’s ability to be a successful change agent for the human race. FAIR engages in community outreach to inform affected communities of how national immigration policies affect their own situation, and invites them to engage in a meaningful dialogue on how to shape immigration policies for the 21st Century and beyond.
As a non-partisan, public interest organization with a support base comprising nearly 50 private foundations and over 1.9 million diverse members and supporters, FAIR is free of party loyalties and special interest connections.
FAIR evaluates policies, seeking out solutions that help reduce the negative impact of uncontrolled immigration on the nation’s security, economy, workforce, education, healthcare and environment.
Their Mission Statement
FAIR seeks to reduce overall immigration to a more normal level. Reducing legal immigration levels from well over one million presently to 300,000 a year over a sustained period will allow America
to manage growth, address environmental concerns, and maintain a high quality of life.
FAIR puts the interests of American citizens and future generations ahead of big business and partisan demands.
What they believe
Immigration, within proper limits, can be positive. Adhering to the rule of law is central to successful assimilation and citizenship.
Tough decisions require strong leadership. Strong leadership, in turn, is underscored by defined principles that anchor public policy.
Immigration can be an emotional topic: We believe in respecting the basic human rights and the dignity of all involved. As such, FAIR opposes policies based on favoritism toward, or discrimination against, any person based on race, color, religion, or gender.
We understand that under any rational system of ordered entry, the demand will always vastly exceed available slots. Tough decisions will therefore always be necessary.
My view
A summary of my beliefs is on the right, but the following two links are pages on another of my blogs that have much more information on this subject.
As shown by the photo above, a wall, by itself, is inadequate security for any national border. If two people can carry a ladder to a wall, 1,000 people can climb over the wall. Some of those people could be dedicated terrorists. Others can be people who have diseases that can be transmitted to other people in the country they're entering (without the permission of that government - a visa).
Because a wall is inadequate security, I prefer the use of armed Army or National Guard soldiers, guided to a border location with the help of military satellites and other intelligence.
Page 1, written in December 2015, says that American sovereignty is important. The presence of illegal immigrants is a violation of laws that were passed by both houses of Congress and signed by American presidents. This page outlines a method for deploying 10-man squads of armed Army or National Guard troops to the border in advance of any invasion by illegals.
In November 2012, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security produced a report titled A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border. Terrorists are entering the United States through our border with Mexico. This report is linked on Page 1. The executive summary of this report was added to the page on December 31, 2018.
Page 2, spun off from Page 1 in October 2017, shows that millions of illegals in America are contributing to overcrowded schools, hospitals, and prisons. This page outlines a five-step method for deporting groups of illegals directly from American prisons to the U.S.-Mexican border. These transfers can be completed in 24 hours for any one group because the process uses an efficient transportation system.
Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader, said these words in 2009. Notice that he is looking down while he speaks.
This is obviously a prepared statement, not an accidental and casual remark that he would regret later.
These are the first three paragraphs of an October 18, 2018 article on the Judicial Watch website titled "100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.". All of these links were in their article.
In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this? A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education
A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land of opportunity. In fact, the nation’s most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs. The Texas Department of Public Safety even issued a report documenting how the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the state thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that came with the UACs. At the time more than 60,000 UACs—many with criminal histories—had stormed into the U.S. in a matter of months. Tens of thousands more eventually made it north.
Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. Last year Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S. Individuals are sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates then flown to Brazil before heading to Colombia. Once in South America, the migrants are transported to Panama before moving on to Costa Rica then a central point on Guatemala. One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports. A few years ago, the head of Guatemala’s passport division got arrested for selling fake passports to a group of Colombians, according to a government announcement.
This sentence is in the third paragraph.
"One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports."
Terrorists who infiltrate groups of people traveling north from Central American countries are a reason to stop all illegal immigration and to scrutinize the legal immigrants very closely.
Please come to the moderated debate about immigration at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2018 at the Jewish Community Center in Newton.
You’ve used some common buzz words and phrases: ‘conservative,’ ‘Republican,’ ‘Liberal Republican in Name Only.’ Can you put some meaning to those words for our readers, by telling us where you stand generally on issues?
... and his answer.
Let’s start by saying I refuse to compromise my values or moderate my positions in order to pander to what I think people want to hear.
I’m Pro-Life. I fully support the 2nd Amendment. I’m a nationalist who wants to live under the United States Constitution, not some United Nations diktat. I support President Trump’s effort to secure the borders, to renegotiate bad trade deals, and his muscular foreign policy that puts America First. Like President Trump puts America first, I will put the citizens of the MA-5th Congressional District first. I will put the Constitution and individual liberty first. That means limiting the role of the federal government, keeping taxes low, limiting regulations to only what’s necessary, and it’s time we stop digging our own fiscal grave. We must balance the budget and address the national debt.
In short, I’m virtually the polar opposite of Katherine Clark on just about every issue. She’s a globalist, a tax and spend liberal, who favors open borders, sanctuary cities, and virtually every extreme social interest measure proposed by the radical left-wing base of today’s Democrat Party. Even on a cultural level – she’s totally out of touch with the average American. Let me give one disgraceful ‘for instance.’ Her claim to fame is walking out on the moment of silence held in Congress for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. She literally called this prayerful moment an ’empty gesture.’ The America I grew up in doesn’t believe that invoking God in our own way is an empty gesture. Quite the opposite, I was brought up to believe that invoking the aid of God is an act of humility that seeks not just His intervention but His wisdom and guidance. Not to mention we honor the victims. This is not an empty gesture.
I could go on. All you really need to know about Clark is that she puts the interests of illegal aliens who commit murder above the safety of innocent American citizens. Good grief! She voted against Kate’s Law. That just proves she represents everyone but the hardworking, taxpaying and law-abiding citizens of our district.
A letter was published September 11, 2018 in the Watertown News, described as
an independent, locally owned news website. watertownmanews@gmail.com 617-458-9561
The link in the last paragraph was included in his letter.
I want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate every single person, no matter the party and no matter who you voted for, who took the time to do their civic duty on Tuesday September 4. Our republic only works, indeed can only thrive, if informed citizens participate.
I’m truly humbled and honored that 64% of those who voted in the Republican Primary selected me to be the Republican Nominee. I want to congratulate Dr. Louis Kuchner, my primary opponent, for running a spirited campaign that took the high road and focused on issues. He has graciously endorsed my candidacy and pledged his support. I am truly grateful. Having Dr. Kuchner as a primary challenger has made me a better candidate.
I’m running, quite frankly, because I’m sick tired or hearing people complain about the way things ought to be, but never doing anything about it. I’m just an average working-class citizen, struggling to pay my bills. I’m a Taxi Dispatcher. I’m sure you’ll hear that from my opponent’s campaign at some point. What can I possibly know about being a legislator? The answer is simple. I have to live with and under the laws, pay the taxes, and deal with consequences of what legislators do – just like the average voter in our district. But most important, I love my country and I don’t believe that Katherine Clark’s vision of America and policy views are consistent with what the vision and policy views espoused by the hard-working people, struggling to make ends meet in our district.
America is a bulwark of freedom. The Constitution protects and guarantees that freedom, primarily from the Government. Our free-market economy affords Americans the best hope for liberty, opportunity, and prosperity. Free Market Capitalism, although not perfect, has done more to elevate people from poverty than any well-intentioned government programs, which often times institutionalize poverty for generations.
I want to congratulate Katherine Clark and invite her to debate the issues. I believe there are stark differences in our philosophy of government. Let’s debate them.
The hardworking people of the 5th Congressional District deserve no less.
I invite you the voters to visit www.johnhugo.com to read more specifics about what I believe and what priorities will be as your congressman.
Respectfully,
John Hugo
Candidate for Congress, Massachusetts 5th Congressional District
This is a video of him and someone else holding a campaign sign in his hometown of Woburn. I recorded it on August 7, 2018.
This is his platform, copied from a document that is available on his Facebook page.
I am a working class candidate for the 5th Congressional District. Please consider my platform.
Taxes from Social Security should go into a fund and never be spent by the government, except for Social Security payments.
I will never seek an increase in the national debt. The debt needs to be tackled immediately. I also feel that the U.S. Constitution needs a balanced budget amendment. It is unfair that we are saddling the next generation with so much debt.
We need respect for law and order as well as respect for civil rights, and neither needs to be exclusive. We should always seek more efficient utilization of law enforcement while fostering better community relations. Law and order keeps us safe. So do civil rights.
We are all one race - the human race. We should focus on what we have in common and work together to make our country a more tolerant place. Frankly, I am so tired of the politically correct crowd dividing us into opposing groups. All human DNA is 99.5% the same. Let's teach that instead of division.
Our own government has always been the biggest threat to our own liberty. Federal authorities should stay out of our e-mail, stop recording our web browsing history, and listening to our phone calls. I oppose government trying to interfere with free speech on the internet. We must always seek to protect American liberties. Let's reassert the rights of the citizenry.
I will only support judges who will strictly interpret the Constitution and never try to legislate from the bench. The Constitution has protected us for a long time. Let us not be the cursed generation which destroys it. At present, our fragile republic is under threat, especially the 1st and 2nd Amendments. We have not enjoyed the privacy protections of the 4th Amendment for quite some time.
We imprison more people than any other country. Much of this is due to the failed war on drugs. We need to rethink the problem. I support medical intervention for drug addicts instead of incarceration. There is a difference between an addict and a criminal. I support the end of cannabis prohibition on the national level.
The higher your taxes, the less freedom that you have. I will never seek to increase the burden of taxation on the people. We need better utilization of our revenues and our resources. We are all overtaxed. Let's get the government off our back.
The world is a dangerous place, and we need to be prepared to defend American liberties. I will support a strong military and seek to reduce wasteful spending at the same time. We should always seek peace, while prepared for war. I strongly support putting our veterans first in line for government jobs. They have made a unique sacrifice.
High political office has become the province of the wealthy. The working class has been marginalized. This is not what the framers of our Constitution envisioned. The system is broken. Let's fix it together. I mean business. Please support me in my campaign for Congress.
I collected signatures to help him be eligible to be listed on the ballot. I have held a campaign sign for him on public sidewalks. I want to see him elected to the U.S. House of Representatives so that he can truly represent the best interests of the 5th Congressional District, which includes these cities.
Arlington
Ashland
Belmont
Harvard Square
Framingham
Holliston
Lexington
Lincoln
Malden
Medford
Melrose
Natick
Revere
Sherborn
Southboro
Stoneham
Sudbury (parts)
Watertown
Waltham
Wayland
Weston
Winchester
Winthrop
Woburn
This is the link to an 8-minute video that I recorded of him making a campaign speech at an event in Waltham on August 2018. At that time, he still had a Republican opponent in the primary election in September, but these are the results of the Massachusetts primary. If you scroll down to the section titled "U.S. House of Representatives", and then scroll down a little further to the 5th Congressional District, John's name is bold-faced, indicating that he won.
I had this t-shirt custom-made, and I will wear it during the campaign as my personal endorsement of him.
In December 2017, I published the 7th page in my series about voter fraud. Link to that page, on my main blog, which is about registering dead people as voters or allowing people to remain on voting lists after they have died.
I have recently become aware of a similar issue in my home state, so I am writing about it here.
In accordance with Section 12 of Chapter 11 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the Office of the State Auditor has conducted a performance audit of the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) for the period July 1, 2014 through December 31, 2016. In this performance audit, we assessed RMV’s Automated Licensing and Registration System (ALARS) to evaluate RMV’s administration of state driver’s licenses and disability parking placards and its collection of revenue.
Notice that the investigators finished doing their initial investigation on December 31, 2016.
There were three findings in this audit.
RMV did not effectively administer the use of disability parking placards.
RMV issued 1,905 licenses after licensees’ dates of death and did not deactivate 4,688 licenses for individuals who died before their licenses expired.
RMV was unable to locate supporting documentation for 24% of the transactions recorded.
The first finding, the misuse of handicap placards, was the subject of this WCVB news story which was released in February 2016, two and a half years before the audit was released in September 2018.
This man is handicapped. He needs his placard.
Listen to these words being spoken by the on-air reporter, starting at 50 seconds into the video.
Two years ago, Team 5 Investigates, documenting cases of drivers illegally using placards of dead relatives.
Two and a half years ago, as documented by this Boston-area television station's news crew, people were misusing the handicap placards. They had been issued to people who were disabled, but these people had died, and the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles wasn't aware of that fact.
Every one of these findings has a few recommendations to improve the situation. These are the recommendations for the second finding.
Rather than using the Department of Public Health’s Vital Statistics File to provide a notification of death, RMV should use another source, such as the Death Master File, to verify death dates for individuals who die before license expiration and immediately change their license status to expired.
RMV should strengthen controls to verify that people named on license applications are not deceased, perhaps by instituting a check against the Death Master File that does not limit the list to individuals in Massachusetts.
The news story about the audit
These are the first two paragraphs of a September 6, 2018 WCVB news story. They are the Boston affiliate of ABC News. The link in the second paragraph was in their story.
BOSTON — The Registry of Motor Vehicles says it rejects the findings of a scathing audit that concludes the agency issued almost 2,000 licenses to dead people, cannot
properly manage disability placards and cannot document more than $200 million.
The auditor’s report found that the RMV issued 1,905 licenses after death, and did not deactivate licenses for people who have died. According to the audit, 97 percent of these licenses were still listed as active as of January 2018.
This news story was badly written. The results of the audit should be in the first paragraph, followed by the reaction to the audit by the RMV spokeswoman. There was no earlier news story about the audit, so the reaction to the news of the audit is misplaced journalism.
The reaction to the news story about audit
This is the third paragraph of the previous WCVB news story that is already linked.
“The Registry of Motor Vehicles rejects the findings in the Auditor’s report, especially the false claim that the RMV is issuing licenses to 1,900 deceased individuals who the RMV has verified are alive. This audit is outdated, as it was conducted before the implementation of an entirely new software system which has improved management and tracking capabilities,” RMV spokesperson Jacquelyn Goddard said in a statement.
This is the second sentence in the third paragraph.
"This audit is outdated, as it was conducted before the implementation of an entirely new software system which has improved management and tracking capabilities,” RMV spokesperson Jacquelyn Goddard said in a statement.
"... an entirely new software system which has improved management and tracking capabilities ...."
- part of the September 6, 2018 statement from the spokeswoman for the Registry of Motor Vehicles
WORCESTER - Vermont transplant Shad Orechovesky figured a trip to the Registry of Motor Vehicles on Main Street on “a random Tuesday morning” wouldn’t have him waiting too long for a new driver’s license.
Mr. Orechovesky couldn’t have been more wrong.
He said he waited a whopping four hours to complete the transaction.
The smile on Mr. Orechovesky’s face belied the excessive wait.
“I wasn’t really expecting to be here for four hours,” he said. “It was long. I’m on vacation this week, so I figured I might as well get it out of the way.”
Delays have been reported at RMV offices throughout the state after the agency’s switch over the weekend to a new computer system.
The new system, called ATLAS, began to offer driver’s licenses and identification cards that comply with a new federal security standard.
These are two more paragraphs of the same March 2018 Worcester Telegram story.
Gov. Charles D. Baker Jr. spoke to reporters about the delays and longer lines some drivers experienced.
“The system itself, the technology piece, worked exactly as anticipated,” Mr. Baker said. “That’s the good news, and about half the people who went in (Monday) got in and out in less than an hour. That’s also good. But for many other people, for whom the new requirements are more significant than they used to be, and for the registry in passing and dealing with those new requirements, people had to wait longer than they would have otherwise been expected to wait.”
Even when this software is working, there is still another problem, however.
Dead people still have driver's licenses
These are the first four paragraphs of a September 6, 2018 New England Cable News story. Notice that this news story, like the previous one from WCVB, places the reaction to the audit before the news about the audit.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is questioning an audit that said 1,905 driver's licenses were issued under the names of dead people.
The audit, conducted by the office of State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump, found that the RMV failed to properly use databases like the Social Security Administration's Death Master File to identify and deactivate licenses of people who have died and to ensure that new licenses were not issued in the name of someone who is deceased.
According to the audit, 97 percent of the licenses issued to deceased individuals were still listed as active as of January 2018.
"The failure to prevent individuals from obtaining identification under the names of deceased people creates a significant public safety risk to the Commonwealth. Fixing this problem must be a top priority for the RMV," Bump said in a statement. "Recent upgrades to the computer systems at the RMV provide it with more tools; now the agency must use them in conjunction with the data sources at its disposal to address this problem."
These are other September 6, 2018 news stories about the same audit. Some of them position the reaction to the audit before the news about the audit, which is an irresponsible editorial commentary.
The dead apparently can get driver's licenses, registrations and other motor vehicle documents in New Jersey.
A state audit found that documents were obtained from the state Motor Vehicle Commission, using social security numbers of more than 300 people after the date that the federal Social Security Administration listed them as being officially deceased.
The audit of state Motor Vehicle Commission data security also found that 32 lucky people were issued documents with no expiration dates.
The review, conducted by the state auditor, found more than 6,000 motor vehicle documents where the social security number belonged to a dead person.
Most of those had been issued prior to when the person's death was reported to social security, but 56 documents had been issued after social security had been notified the person was deceased, the audit found.
More than 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver's licenses, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday.
Assembly Bill 60, authored by then-Assemblyman Luis Alejo in 2013, required California DMV offices to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants as long as they can prove their identity and residence within the state. The law has led to 1,001,000 undocumented immigrants receiving licenses as of March 31 but doesn't give the licensees carte blanche to drive outside of California or fly across state or federal borders.
"Immigrants are getting tested, licensed and insured and this is making our roads safer for everyone," said Alejo, now a Monterey County supervisor, in a prepared statement. "Today, we see the law working the way it was intended to and has dramatically improved the lives of a million immigrants and their families."
The video that is included in this February 5, 2018 ABC News story about the death of an NFL player says that an illegal alien (from Guatemala) who caused the crash that killed the player
"... had been deported twice and was previously convicted of DUI in California."
These two photographs, and the captions below them, are part of that ABC News story. The NFL player who died was a passenger in the red car.
The 2018 Lincoln driven by Jeffrey Monroe, 54, in Indianapolis on Feb. 4, 2018.
The Ford pick-up truck driven by 37-year-old Alex Cabrera Gonsales.
Many people should not have driver's licenses
There is a 2018 story and a 2023 story in this section.
Two South Florida DMV workers are facing a number of charges after authorities say they gave driver's licenses to people who didn't complete the state's driving exam.
Lori Andre, 32, and Brittany Renee Jones, 29, were arrested Tuesday on charges including racketeering, official misconduct, driver license fraud and offenses against intellectual property, arrest warrants showed.
According to the warrants, the woman gave driver's licenses to at least five people who didn't pass the exam, and even modified information in the state's database.
The warrants didn't say why the women issued the licenses, including if they were paid by the people they issued them to.
When someone doesn't pass a driver's exam, yet still receives a license to drive, it's likely that the person will be a danger to other people who are driving in the same area.
These are the next two paragraphs of the same story.
Terry Rhodes, executive director for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said both women have been fired.
"The department is committed to maintaining the integrity of its processes to ensure highway safety and security. DHSMV routinely performs quality assurance reviews on transactions, looking for any anomalies that could indicate fraud," Rhodes said in a statement. "As in this case, findings are investigated and those suspected of compromising Floridians’ safety will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
BROCKTON, Mass. —Federal prosecutors are charging a former manager of a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles service center and a driving school owner in connection with schemes that provided passing scores to permit and license applicants who failed their tests.
Mia Cox-Johnson, 43, of Brockton, a former manager of the RMV service center in Brockton, was charged with two counts of extortion under color of official right and one count of conspiring to commit extortion. Estevao Semedo, 61, also of Brockton, the owner of a driving school, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.
According to the office of U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins, Cox-Johnson accepted money in exchange for giving passing scores on learner’s permit tests for both passenger vehicle driver’s licenses and Commercial Driver’s Licenses between December 2018 and October 2019.
"These customers were allegedly told to request a paper test instead of taking the test on the RMV computer. Cox-Johnson scored these customers’ paper tests," Rollins' office said.
On Dec. 28, 2018, Cox-Johnson allegedly accepted $1,000 in cash in exchange for giving a passing score to someone who had failed their learner's permit test six times in their native language. Rollins said that Cox-Johnson also accepted $200 in cash to give passing scores to an applicant who took three multiple-choice tests for a CDL license on Oct. 21, 2019.
This is the first sentence of the last paragraph.
"On Dec. 28, 2018, Cox-Johnson allegedly accepted $1,000 in cash in exchange for giving a passing score to someone who had failed their learner's permit test six times in their native language."
Illegal immigrants should not have driver's licenses
The news stories in this section are arranged in chronological order, oldest first.
An illegal immigrant accused of killing a 23-year-old Milford man in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail as the victim’s heartsick family members looked on in Milford District Court yesterday.
Judge Robert Calagione entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Nicolas D. Guaman, 34, of 10 Cherry St., Apt. 1, Milford. Guaman was arrested Saturday after police say his pickup truck hit Matthew J. Denice, who was on a motorcycle, and dragged his body a quarter-mile.
Asked if she was angry, his mother Maureen Maloney said: “I can’t have anger. I’m just so broken-hearted to not have my son.”
Maloney said she is not against immigration, but said people need to enter the country the “right way.”
Denice’s stepfather, Michael Maloney, called the incident a “murder” and said Denice was a “great all-American kid.”
The family said they want Guaman to be prosecuted here and receive a lengthy sentence, rather than simply being deported.
Guaman has been charged with negligent vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury and death, possession of an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, failure to stop for police, unlicensed driving, failure to yield at a stop sign, resisting arrest and wanton or reckless conduct creating risk to a child, according to court documents.
Milford Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin said Guaman told police he was in the country illegally. Homeland Security is investigating and has issued a detainer warrant, which would become activated when the court process is completed.
This is the first sentence of the last quoted paragraph in the previous story.
"Milford Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin said Guaman told police he was in the country illegally."
The illegal alien had his legal competency evaluated
Superior Court Judge Janet Kenton-Walker took under advisement arguments Tuesday as to whether a Milford man — in the country illegally from Ecuador — is competent to stand trial in the death 17 months ago of a Milford motorcyclist.
Nicholas Dutan Guaman, 35, faces charges of second-degree murder, drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident causing death, driving without a license and reckless endangerment of a child, among other charges. He allegedly drove through a stop sign in Milford on Aug. 20, 2011, hitting 23-year-old Matthew Denice and dragging him under his Ford F-150 truck for a quarter mile before he stopped for police.
The competency hearing had been delayed several times because of difficulties finding a certified court interpreter who spoke Quechua, a dialect spoken in rural Ecuador.
Peter Ettenberg, Mr. Guaman’s lead lawyer, said his focus would be on demonstrating that Mr. Guaman doesn’t understand the concept of the legal process.
But prosecuting Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey T. Travers said that Mr. Guaman was mentally stable and the tests used by the defense to prove that Mr. Guaman wasn’t competent were based on normal Spanish-speaking Americans.
“The defendant is not that,” he said, although, “He successfully lived the life of an American,” by working and raising a family.
Notice that the first paragraph of this news story states that he is in the United States illegally.
America declared our independence from Great Britain in 1776. We fought and won a war to maintain our independence.
After we did so, our founding fathers agreed on the terms of a constitution that established a government with limited power to regulate our lives.
That constitution established a two-house legislature which, over the next two centuries, passed laws that required the permission of the United States Government before anyone who was physically outside our country could enter our country. Many of those laws became enforceable by the signature of the President.
Nicholas Dutan Guaman was born in Ecuador and entered the United States without the permission of the United States. That makes him an illegal alien under the laws that were passed by Congress and signed by various Presidents.
Even before the trial began, our Democrat Governor tried to accommodate the illegal aliens
There's a new push in Massachusetts to grant drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. On Fox and Friends this morning, we heard from the mother of a 23-year-old man who was killed two years ago by a drunk driver who was in the U.S. illegally.
Nicolas Guaman ran a stop sign and struck motorcyclist Matthew Denice in Milford, Mass. Denice was then dragged nearly a quarter-mile.
Maureen Maloney said she's outraged at the idea that lawmakers feel they can change laws to "accommodate people who habitually break our laws."
"I'm doing this because I don't ever want to see another parent have to deal with the heartache and pain that I'm dealing with when this is totally preventable by just enforcing our current laws," she said.
A hearing on the bill to grant licenses to illegal immigrants is scheduled for Feb. 5. Supporters argue it would make undocumented immigrants better drivers and make the roads safer overall.
Maloney says that states with this law already in place have seen increases in the number of accidents involving illegal immigrants.
This is the first sentence of the Fox News Insider story.
"There's a new push in Massachusetts to grant drivers licenses to illegal immigrants."
There was another effort in 2022. This one succeeded. An Associated Press story, published November 9, 2022 on the website of the Boston affiliate of National Public Radio, says that the voters failed to repeal an existing law that allowed illegal aliens to have a driver's license.
WORCESTER - The judge described the victim statement as one of the most moving he’s heard in his 10 years on the bench.
Maureen Maloney described the previous two years, nine months and 29 days as “horrible” and “torturous” on Monday. And after Worcester Superior Court Judge David Ricciardone sentenced Nicolas Dutan Guaman to 12 to 14 years in prison, Maloney said that justice had only “partially” been served.
Guaman, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who dragged Maloney’s son Matthew Denice to his death in 2011, was found guilty of several charges. Ricciardone, who presided over the jury-waived trial
for four days last week, ruled that Guaman was guilty of vehicular homicide while driving negligently and under the influence of alcohol; leaving the scene of a personal injury accident resulting in death; driving without a license; failing to stop for police; and reckless endangerment of a child.
Guaman was found not guilty of the heftiest charge he faced - second degree murder.
“I live with the sound of skids, crashes and screams and images of Matthew’s body being ripped apart in slow motion every day and every night,” Maloney said in her statement. “I now live in two worlds, one foot in the world with my son Michael and one foot in the afterworld with Matthew.“
Guaman, 37, was found by the court to be drunk when he was driving a pickup truck and struck the 23-year-old
This is a similar story on the website of WBUR, the public radio station in the Boston area. Their story is dated May 27, 2014. The headline of that story downplays the horribly violent dragging death of Matthew Denise.
"Fatal Milford Crash Remains A Lightning Rod For Immigration Policy"
The illegal immigrant from Ecuador, who didn't have any respect for American life or American laws, and who was probably unfamiliar with the rules of the road, was convicted of those crimes.
WORCESTER -- Nicolas Dutan Guaman, the undocumented immigrant who struck and dragged Milford's Matthew Denice to his death in 2011, is seeking to have at least one of his convictions thrown out.
Guaman's attorney went before three Massachusetts Appeals Court judges in Worcester Monday morning to argue that the manslaughter by motor vehicle charge should be tossed out. Guaman was convicted in 2014 of that charge and motor vehicle homicide.
His lawyer argued that only the conviction for motor vehicle homicide should stand.
"Manslaughter requires reckless conduct. Motor vehicle homicide only requires negligent conduct. The evidence did not show Guaman acted recklessly," said attorney Ethan Stiles.
Guaman was driving drunk when he rolled through a stop sign and struck Denice on his motorcycle. Denice was stuck under the front of the truck and pulled into the wheel well as Guaman tried to speed away. He dragged Denice a quarter mile to his death.
WORCESTER -- Nicolas Dutan Guaman, the undocumented immigrant who struck and dragged Milford's Matthew Denice to his death in 2011, will remain in jail despite appeals court judges overturning one of his five convictions.
In a decision issued Wednesday, the three judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who heard Guaman's appeal in May, reversed his conviction of the lesser charge of motor vehicle homicide.
The state Supreme Judicial Court won’t hear a further appeal for Nicolas Guaman, the Ecuadorean immigrant convicted of killing Milford resident Matthew Denice in 2011.
The Further Appellate Review application was denied Thursday after lingering with the state’s highest appellate court for more than three months. The application was filed in on Sept. 6.
Guaman’s lawyer, Ethan Stiles, filed the application shortly after the Appeals Court set aside one conviction it deemed duplicative - motor vehicle homicide - but upheld his 12-to 14-year sentence and other convictions, including OUI manslaughter.
Guaman, an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was convicted of charges in 2013 after driving drunk, running a stop sign, hitting and dragging Denice, who was riding his motorcycle.
The denial likely ends Guaman’s chances of a successful appeal.
Would you want someone in your family to be in a car near someone who hadn't passed a driver's test yet was in control of a motor vehicle?
The 14-minute video on the left is a compilation of some fatal car crashes. Some of the drivers in this compilation recorded their own deaths.
Reduce fatalities by preventing illegal immigrants from having a license.
The Democrat Governor has to apologize for his own mistake
The following two news stories were both published in the Boston Globe, and they were published exactly one month apart.
Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday that he shared the community’s outrage over the death of a 23-year-old Milford man struck last week by an alleged drunk driver who was also an illegal immigrant. But the governor urged people not to blame the death on illegal immigration.
Matthew Denice was on his motorcycle last Saturday when he was hit in Milford and dragged for a quarter-mile. Nicolas Guaman, a 34-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, has pleaded not guilty to charges that include vehicular homicide while under the influence.
“It’s a terrible, terrible tragedy,’’ Patrick said at the end of a news conference about preparations for Hurricane Irene. But, he added, “Illegal immigration didn’t kill this person. A drunk driver killed this person, and we have laws about that. And I expect the book to be thrown at this person.’’
Denice’s death reignited the state’s debate over illegal immigration and renewed calls on Patrick to have the state join the federal Secure Communities program, which would screen the fingerprints of everyone under arrest to find and deport serious criminals who are illegally in the country.
A Marlborough man, who was in the country illegally and had been previously deported, was arrested Saturday morning in Boxborough on his sixth drunken driving charge, police said.
Boxborough police said that Eduardo Alementa Torres, 48, who is originally from Mexico, was driving a 1988 Chevrolet pickup truck with an expired inspection sticker when an officer saw him at about 10:45 a.m. on the southbound ramp from Massachusetts Avenue to Interstate 495 and pulled him over.
The officer saw an open beer bottle on the passenger seat and detected a strong odor of alcohol, police said. Torres failed a field sobriety test and submitted to a breath test, which showed that his
blood alcohol level was .09 percent, according to police.
The legal limit to drive in Massachusetts is .08 percent.
Police said Torres had no identification on him and gave the officer a false name.
Torres was identified when police ran his fingerprints through an automated identification system, and police also learned that he had three prior drunken driving convictions in California and two in Massachusetts, authorities said.
Police said that Torres is a previously deported fugitive wanted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
These are the words of Deval Patrick, the Democrat ex-Governor of Massachusetts, as quoted by the August 28, 2011 Globe story.
“Illegal immigration didn’t kill this person. A drunk driver killed this person, and we have laws about that. And I expect the book to be thrown at this person.’
A judge did "throw the book at this person", but Deval's refusal to register with the Secure Communities Program endangered the legal citizens of America and especially those who live in Massachusetts.
This one-minute video was recorded by the driver of a car in China. It shows another car that is dragging a dog behind it.
The narrator of this video is speaking in the Filipino language. The video was uploaded by a Filipino news service.
Matthew Denise was dragged to his death by the illegal immigrant named Nicolas Dutan Guaman.
He was dragged for ¼ mile.
This 1-minute video was uploaded on May 2, 2016.
This 4½-minute video was uploaded on March 1, 2017.
A debate about immigration will be held on 
