“If you can’t enter this country legally then you shouldn’t be here. If you commit crimes, you should pay the time any of us as US Citizens would have to serve. Letting these illegal criminals out of our jails before their time is served and turning them loose on the streets to commit further crimes and KILL our loved ones is NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ME!!” she wrote. “AND it shouldn’t be acceptable to any US Citizen. Mr. President, you don’t have the right to make this decision yourself……I have a say, even if it is for one moment.”
The mother of an Arizona officer killed by an undocumented immigrant driving drunk in May sent a scathing letter directly to President Barack Obama Wednesday afternoon, demanding that her voice be heard.
Mary Ann Mendoza contends the federal government knew Raul Silva Corona, whose blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit at the time of the wrong way crash, was in the country illegally, but still did not deport him.
According to KNXV-TV, court records indicate Corona pleaded guilty to a 1994 conspiracy charge in Colorado. Prosecutors dismissed other charges of burglary, assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
Mendoza said in her letter that such treatment shows the government was “lenient” on her son’s killer.
“When he was convicted of these crimes in 1994 and the government knew he was in the country illegally, why wasn’t he deported? Why are any of these illegal criminals in this country?” she asked.
“I am furious that the Federal Government allowed this criminal to stay in this country and KILL my son!” Mendoza added in her impassioned letter.
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