Dad’s Grief Leads To Take Action Towards Illegal Immigrant Drivers
In 2010, Drew Rosenberg was run over, twice, and killed by an illegal immigrant driver. Since then, Rosenberg’s father, Don, has been on a mission to find out just how many deaths in America are caused by illegal immigrant drivers.
In the five years since his son’s death, Rosenberg has scanned thousands of spreadsheets and documents looking for answers that many of us seek. How many illegal immigrants cause deaths in the states?
“I was stunned at what I found,” Rosenberg wrote on his website. “Not only were unlicensed drivers killing people in numbers only exceeded by drunk drivers but many times they were barely being punished and many times faced no charges at all.”
It is an astonishing thing to think about.
According to FOX News, Roberto Galo, a Honduran who entered the country illegally and who eventually earned temporary protective status, had been cited five months earlier for driving without a license or going the wrong way on a one-way street. His car was impounded for a day, he paid a fine for the moving violation, and the other charges were dropped.
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Galo was convicted of manslaughter after striking Drew Rosenberg with his car, and in the midst of trying to flee the scene, ran Rosenberg over again. He served six weeks in jail and was released. Eventually, in 2013, Galo was deported after a years-long legal battle.
State and federal highway safety officials do not classify deaths by the perpetrator’s immigration status; cataloging the deadly toll of unlicensed, illegal immigrant drivers has been a painstaking effort.
Rosenberg is a self-described lifelong liberal. But he readily admits his son’s death and the circumstances surrounding it have left him bitter and resentful — especially towards those in favor of amnesty.
“While I can sympathize with people who want to make their lives better, they can’t do it at the expense of others, I am not angry at those who come here to try and better their life or their children’s, but it can’t be condoned or rewarded,” said Rosenberg.
“I’ve learned over time that many jurisdictions do not cite license status or immigration status when reporting these statistics, so if anything, the numbers are understated,” Rosenberg said. “For example, San Francisco doesn’t report either criteria, so Drew’s death defaults to having been killed by a licensed driver who was a citizen.”
Western Journal reports that the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has found that 20 percent of fatal car accidents were at the hands of an unlicensed driver. This includes drivers with suspended or revoked licenses, as well as those who never had a license.
“Our archives are filled with stories of drunk-driving illegals killing U.S. citizens,” William Gheen, spokesman of the Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, told Fox News. “It is our official estimate that more than 3,000 U.S citizens lose their lives each year due to the insufficient enforcement of our existing border and immigration.”
Read more about the Rosenberg case here.
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