Illegal Immigrant Kills 4 Children

A school bus and several other vehicles crashed in southwestern Minnesota, killing four students and forcing the first-arriving motorists to rush some of the injured to nearby hospitals.

The bus was hit by a van around 3:25 p.m. Tuesday on a highway south of Cottonwood. The bus then hit a pickup truck and tipped on its side, State Patrol Lt. Mark Peterson said. At least 14 people were hurt.

Other motorists also stopped and took kids from the driver. "You just wanted to make sure it was safe," she said. "They were screaming and screaming on the bus. There were so many kids."

Illegal Alien Caused Fatal Bus Accident That Killed Four Students

“Among those killed were two brothers, Jesse Javens, 13, and Hunter Javens, 9, as well as Reed Stevens, 12, and Emilee Olson, 9. At least 14 other people were hurt.”

It’s a tragic story, with elements that, as so often happens, make little sense. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Morales has a “Minnesota identification card” but does not have a driver’s license. I’m not sure what a “Minnesota identification card” is, or how an illegal alien can get one. In 2006, Morales was convicted of driving without a license. It appears that, not only does Morales not have a license, she does not know how to drive a car:

Recalling that incident, Sandra Keding of Montevideo said in an interview Thursday that she had been reading the newspaper in her home that afternoon when she heard gravel flying.

“I stood up from the couch and looked out my window and this car was coming right toward my house,” said Keding, 45. “The car hit the curb, came right up on my yard and stopped about 12 feet from the front of my house.”

She recalled that Morales was driving and that she was “shaking all over and was a total wreck.” When Morales tried to shift the automatic transmission on the blue Dodge Neon, she couldn’t.

“She apparently didn’t know how to drive the car,” Keding said. “I had to get in and move it. She acted like she didn’t know how to shift.”

Police arrived and ticketed Morales for driving without a Minnesota license.

As a result of that incident, Morales was fined $182. It seems inconceivable that this prosecution could have been carried out without it coming to light that Morales is an illegal alien, but apparently no effort was made to deport her. She remained, it seems, an unguided missile on the state’s highways until her path tragically collided with that of a school bus containing 28 children. Here is how a witness described the school bus accident:

The driver of the truck told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that he saw the van run the stop sign.

“I saw the maroon van run a stop sign, it blew over the railroad tracks and hit the bus, sending it sliding into me,” James M. Hancock, 45, of Marshall, told the newspaper from his hospital bed in Sioux Falls, S.D. “The next thing I knew, they were hauling kids out and it was chaos.”

It’s a sad story, for Morales as well as the families of the dead and injured children aboard the bus. But it is impossible to understand how anyone can try to justify the institutional refusal to enforce our laws that leads to such tragedies.