An emailer wrote me yesterday, wondering (at that point) if the driver in the tragic bus crash in Cottonwood, MN, who’d given a Hispanic name at her arrest – was an illegal alien.

I’m always loathe to assume that; most Latin-Americans are perfectly legal.  And I don’t want to succumb to bashing illegal immigrants for every ill that faces this country, since the precedents for that sort of thing in the past 100 years are pretty bad.

But of course, it’d seem the emailer was right.   Lassie at True North relates the Fox9 story:

Fox Nine News confirmed late this afternoon what many have suspected, but some local media still aren’t noting:

Authorities have confirmed that the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien.

Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she’s been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias.

A memorial fund is set up:

Memorial Fund for Families of Bus Crash Victims
United Southwest Bank
P.O. Box 288
Cottonwood, MN 56229

As Michelle Malkin noted, open borders and sanctuary cities have bloody consequences. Contact your legislators.

Of course, perfectly-legal Americans also commit stupid crimes with cars; thousands of Americans die every year, most of them killed by other legal Americans (or themselves) via any variety of stupid traffic tricks.

But it was an illegal alien who had the accident in Cottonwood.  And there are four families who might not be dealing with their childrens’ deaths if one of those illegals had been kept out of the US today.

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