Another open-borders nightmare
Here we go again: Serial drunk driver. Countless trips through the revolving door. Immigration status ignored. Now, a four-year-old girl dead. Her mother and brother hospitalized.
The community is outraged. Politicians claim to be perplexed. And the pro-illegal alien amnesty group is ready to pounce on anyone who dares talk about this case as a right-wing, hate-mongering extremist. Same old, same old bloody, open-borders nightmare:
Despite repeated trips through Douglas County’s criminal justice system, Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa wasn’t identified as an illegal immigrant until this week, after he was accused of causing a crash in west Omaha that killed 4-year-old Josie Bluhm.
It was unclear exactly how Rangel-Ochoa’s immigration status went undetected after so many court appearances and revocations of his driving privileges. But part of the reason was the inability to thoroughly check his documentation the first time he walked into the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.
Rangel-Ochoa, 27, applied for his first Nebraska driver’s license in September 1998 using a Social Security card, according to state records. At the time, employees were unable to verify the validity of the Social Security number with a federal database, said Beverly Neth, director of the Motor Vehicles Department.
The same was true in June 2000, when Rangel-Ochoa’s license was reinstated.
It wasn’t until 2001, Neth said, that the state could check the validity of a Social Security number. So upon Rangel-Ochoa’s return to the Department of Motor Vehicles in 2004, he was sent away.
Rangel-Ochoa had been convicted in 2003 of third-offense driving under the influence; a judge revoked his license for 15 years.
He is now in the Douglas County Correctional Center with a federal hold on him as a suspected illegal immigrant…
…In addition to three DUI convictions in Nebraska, Rangel-Ochoa was convicted of DUI once in Kansas. Rangel-Ochoa’s DUI cases in Douglas County were misdemeanors.
Counts said the federal government always has worked with local law enforcement, prosecutors and jails to identify illegal immigrants. But recent efforts have increased, he said.
Bellevue police arrested Rangel-Ochoa in 2000 for his second misdemeanor DUI. Omaha police arrested him three times between 1999 and 2001 on misdemeanors. Counts said ICE and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service had not encountered Rangel-Ochoa previously, according to their database.
There was no indication that any law enforcement agency ever contacted immigration enforcement about Rangel-Ochoa, Counts said. Lt. Darci Tierney, an Omaha police spokeswoman, said the department contacts ICE “when an officer suspects that a person in custody may be subject to deportation or other action by ICE.”
“There would have to be some indication that the person was in violation of immigration laws,” Tierney said in an e-mail.
Bellevue Police Chief John Stacey said that in 2000, when they came across Rangel-Ochoa, the department would not have contacted immigration services unless the case was a major felony or a case in which multiple suspects were believed to be illegal immigrants.
Now, the department has procedures in place for officers to have immediate contact with an ICE agent.
Counts declined to say whether Rangel-Ochoa would have been a priority if authorities had contacted the agency after his misdemeanor arrests.
Four-year-old Josie Bluhm will be buried on Saturday. R.I.P.:

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Flashback: Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: What can you do?
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From reader Rich in Omaha, NE:
Omaha’s new mayor -elect, Jim Suttle (a Democrat) made these maddening remarks in April:
It surfaced at a recent neighborhood meeting, when Suttle was asked what role local government should take when it comes to illegal immigration. Suttle said, “We need to go to the source of the problem and quit making criminals out of the companies, quit making criminals out of people, however they might come across the border.”
Mr. Suttle was elected on Tuesday. The same day of the accident.
Rich Medals
Omaha
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How long can this go on? Well, at least four more years of course. We have a right to control our borders. Our government has a responsibility to do so and to protect our citizens against those in the country illegally who brazenly flaunt our laws and conduct identity theft. This is insanity.
DUI? What about driving without a liscense?
My heart breaks for the Bluhm family.
I pray for physical healing for Josie’s mother and brother, as well as emotional healing for the entire extended family.
Such a horrible outrage and tragedy.
May God have mercy on the Bluhm family.
Rest in peace, little Josie.
Such a pretty little girl. As a father of a 6 year old boy and a 2 year old girl, that just breaks my heart.
Luke 18:16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Go with God little Josie Bluhm.
The blood of this little girl is on the hands of all the open border fools. That includes you, John McCain. You too, Geraldo Riviera.
Pop Quiz: Which 2008 Presidential candidate said the following:
Answer
What is really sad is nothing will happen until an illegal takes the life of a politicians child.
The interpreter must have failed to explain how long 15 years was to him.
?Que?
I voted for Huck in Virginia because he was the only candidate who WASN’T John McCain still running by the time we had our primary. Of course, Huck was about my 5th choice…
My vote went for the Constitution Party in the General Election.
I voted Huck as well, for the same reason.
Voted Palin in the general.
My heart aches for the Bluhm family. All my prayers!
b-cat & truesoldier ~ Absolute TRUTH!
b-cat ~ would Geraldo change his position if this were his 4 year old daughter?
True that, Truesoldier.
If that were my child, prior to burying her, I would take her battered and bruised body around to every shamnesty abiding politician and law enforcement official I could find, hold her up to their faces, and scream “You did this!” At least I wish I was strong enough to.
Años, Meses, minutos? Maybe his Spanish wasn’t so good when he was drunk off his butt!
I have a six year old daughter. This hits home.
What will it take to fix the government and return it to the control of the people and to its proper, limited role?
Here’s a local version of (yet another) Open Borders Disaster Story -
“Accused Wendy’s Rapist Has Prior Arrests”
The perp is in the local county jail on rape charges and has an ICE hold in effect as well.
When is enough, enough?
This is horribly sad for the family of this sweet little girl and her parents. Please, God be with them all and comfort them is their loss.
L
You know, sadly it is NOT TRUE. Barbra Olsen was murdered on 9/11 in the plane that hit the Pentagon. Her husband, Ted, was the Solicitor General of the United States. Bush did NOTHING!!! They care more about the illegals than they do about their kids and wives!
Scary to think how many more will flood our country when Mexico’s economy collapses!
Suffice it to say, there will be more Josie Bluhms … our “leaders” are only consumed with obtaining more power. If that means leaving the border open to curry favor with illegals and win their “votes” well, so be it.
I don’t foresee anything being done about this any time soon.
___________________________
My niece will be six in October and that’s who I see when I look at lil’ Josie. R.I.P. Precious little girl.
30 pcs ~
illegal + amnesty =
votes for the Democrats!
I don’t know how a crazy person thinks.
‘Amnesty’ doesn’t just mean it’s ok to have broken a law in your past, it also means it’s okay to break any laws in your future here in this great country!
*vomits*
If I was a family member, I’d go down there and post his bail myself.
Heh.
And this should impress and deter because of what?
YAWN!
Just so as we’re all on the same MEChA page, he’s an illegal alien with FOUR prior drunk driving convictions.
God Bless Josie Bluhm. She is truly a victim of the liberal progressive mindset.
If I only had the power to grant sanctuary in Hell to those loons….
When a Democrat claims we can’t use enhanced interrogation techniques, because we are a “Nation of Laws”..
I say.. “” Well go “Enforce the effin Immigration Laws”", then come back and talk to me!!”"
They don’t want to enforce them. It’s easier to give away citizenship.
There’s at least one of these stories a month here in Raleigh-Durham, NC. NC is the California of the east coast. We’re not allowed to speak ill of them. They’re only here to do good things.
What a precious little angel.
I’m having what Kim Dutoit called a RCOB(Red Curtain of Blood) moment.
grrrrrr.
Do the Dems have voter registration booths at the open borders?
we ignore the data we don’t want to deal with, and say these immigrants are poor huddling masses seeking to be free and to work so they can care for their families. why aren’t these huddling masses doing as america did and have a revolution which overthrows the “kings” and work to improve mexico.
If he’s truly crazy, which is a good bet, he’d get all noble and say something idiotic like, “Please don’t use my tragedy as an excuse to persecute people looking for a better life in the United States,” or, “His drunkeness didn’t have anything to do with his immigration status.” Her-AL-doh’s a moron.
ECS
When will enough be enough?
There, TS, you did it again!
Time to trot out Geraldo so he can tell us we’re all racists again.
This is just awful.
Dagney,
And what will the flashback look like? I don’t like the feeling of “tick, tick, tick” that this is starting to feel like. It’s getting a bit scary…
My only comfort in reading this story is that this sweet child now rests in the arms of Jesus.
I’d like to find some stats on the disproportionate number of DUIs coming out of the illegal alien community. I agree that one is one too many, but I am curious about the rate.
I will then forward the numbers to Geraldo.
Stapled, of course, to a flaming bag of dog…naw. I’ll pray for him. He needs it.
Forget the notion that it would take the death of an “open borders” politician’s child – even that wouldn’t do it. Even that politician’s death would not be enough. Death is something that group is heavily invested in – abortion, doctor assisted suicide, partial birth – you name it. They live for this stuff.
Sadly, it will only get worse under our current political leadership.
To those currently in power? Never. It will never be enough. They do not care about the individual, only the collective. They look at the picture of this little girl and think nothing. Just a statistic. One among many.
They simply cannot understand the consequences of the policies they allow. “Sanctuary cities”, “don’t ask about citizenship laws”, etc. These all lead to the deaths of innocents, time after time after time.
I used to think this was a country of laws.
Obama, McCain, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi, Murtha and yes George W. Bush couldn’t give a damn about that little girl. To them, Illegals = Potential Votes. Little else matters.
And to liberals in general, it’s pretty much the same. It’s more important to them to have an open door policy than it is to have a 4 year old girl in an open casket.
“What will it take to fix the government and return it to the control of the people and to its proper, limited role?”
I’d tell you, but I am beginning to believe that at some point it would get me a 2:00 a.m. knock on the door….. and I am only guessing they would bother to knock.
And I defy anyone to show proof that Aviator is wrong while we still don’t have a fence.
Bogtrotter – Two years ago I would have said you were being paranoid. Not anymore.
NJ-Aviator, maybe we try something like the red envelope drive recently used for pro life?
It seems that these
lyingweaselspoliticians easily ignore people protesting in the street, but once you clutter up their office with mail…(If this has been done/suggested before, my apologies.)
My I suggest sending a purple colored enevelop since Red and Pink are already connected with drunk driving and cancer.
My heart goes out to the Blumn family this weekend. RIP little Josie.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
It is interesting that the open borders gang seems to want us to believe that even if Rangel-Ochoa had been deported as he should have, that this beautiful little girl would still be dead.
It is…They are selectively enforced though…
Maybe, some nefarious rogues could bail him out of jail ?
Just a thought…
The mother should be deported.
Side note: Coupe of months ago, I was sitting in a court watching a 16 yr old kid get his wrist slapped by a judge.
95+ in a 65 zone. The judge left the license intact, wiped the speeding ticket and lectured the boy to think about that he could kill himself. ( and “what would his mom think then”)
heeere we go
TheOtherSide:
You must have highlighted to quickly and not got the entire paragraph. Just wanted to make sure that all the context was there which I’m sure you did also. It’s ok, mistakes happen.
My heart goes out to the family of Josie. I was going to make some comment about Jerry(the spitter) Rivers,but I seee that digusting POS has already been covered.
Otherside,
Please remember the following:
The effective range of an M16A2 rifle is 350 meters.
The effective range of an M60 machine gun is 1,100 meters.
The effective range of an excuse is 0 meters.
What “excuse” Flyoverman?
What ? Illegal Mexican citizens won’t pay ? Apparently, we just found a job that Mexicans won’t do.
On May 15th, 2009 at 2:55 pm, TheOtherSide said:
What “excuse” Flyoverman?
This is a country of lawyers.
POS should be deported.
Everyone’s immigration status/citizen status should be checked by police in a database for all routine stops.
Give me a speeding ticket, check my status! It doesn’t bother me.
And it isn’t Raaaaacist if you do everyone the same way.
I do get the sense that my Senators and my Congressman pretty much ignore “contact emails” sent through their websites. What I get back sounds like a form letter gussied up a bit to fit what I complained or asked about. I’ve yet to receive a direct answer to any direct question I’ve ever asked. Ever. It’s usually…
“We agree that this is an issue we need to face. Be assured that my staff, myself and my colleagues are working on this problem. We take these matters seriously and appreciate your concerns.”
AKA…. “shut up and stop bothering me with your petty nonsense Mr. Constituent. Here’s my rubber stamped response.”
Seems one Senator would have to be picked to get the bags of mail. If spread around, it would lose any impact.
Yup.. just like the do a check for outstanding warrants. And if you don’t have valid ID or your ID is suspect… in the squad car you go.
Just keep on voting for the Democrats and/or the New World Order RINOs and this kind of event will keep on occurring.
You say the community is “outraged.” I wonder if they are outraged enough to vote properly.
They definately were not in November, Omaha and the first district went to Obama. That was the first time that Nebraska gave an electoral vote to a dem since the sixties.
so much for our security and her American dream….every American should be outraged and get off their butts for a change….here are more victims:
http://www.voiac.org/
Go to Numbers USA and fax our leaders to express your disgust at our lack of border enforcement and proposed amnesty for illegals. Its free, but you can donate if you wish. This crap has got to stop!
I don’t think I would be effective with an M-16A3 at 350 meters…
Just saying, if I am going to engage a target I am going to have to be a lot closer than that.
More enemys within. Was he on the sugar tit too? Nasty illegal alien.
I don’t mind making it personal…
SOme indication that he was in violation??? Just what are they looking for? The fact that he came here illegally …the very freaking DEFINITION of “violation of Immigration Law”.
Stop making criminals out of people? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH LIBERALS????
Excuse after excuse, apology after apology…my God but it just never stops. How can so many people be so blatantly, arrogantly stupid at the same time? No other country in the world is this stupid. No other country in the world allows such things to transpire at their borders.
OK Liberals…you want to be more like Europe? You want to be more like your buddies Chavez, Ortega, and Castro? Well then why don’t you treat the criminals who cross our borders without the proper documentation…you know the ILLEGAL ALIENS from whatever country they came from the same way your idols and heroes do? Do you see Europe allowing such violations of their borders?
And what about Castro, Chavez and Ortega? Do you think they are allowing people to flood across their borders? Why don’t you try going into any of their country “undocumented”? Forget all the demands these criminals make once they are here…just try getting across their borders. See how long it is before you get a round from a frikken AK-47 in your back. No questions, no warnings, no driver’s license and free ride through the educational system and opportunity to whine and complain about how no one is kissing your arshe.
We had to transport several illegals to the hospital following a minor accident where the driver of the other car had to have full c-spine packaging and trauma criteria stuff. While on the way, just what do you think happened when we asked the guys who drove through the red light if they had insurance? If they had ID? just what do you think came of them? Remember…this is California.
Just sick of it.
Do you hear that Napolitano? That’s right…I am on your list…a disgruntled American who is sick and tired and fed up with Liberals like you who are more interested in harassing and making life difficult for real Americans and completely ignoring the violations to our sovereignty at each and every one of our borders.
Put THAT in your next report to Der Fuhrer.
Drunk, illegal immigrant guilty of killing a 4 year old girl.
Pity it didn’t happen in Arizona or Texas. They have ways of ensuring this miscreant never drives again.
Really, nothing less than an immediate mass Deportation drive is going remedy this and spare the dilution of American culture as well — but can’t work if illegals become defacto citizens almost on contact with our borders. Is the American heartland enraged enough? Sadly, I don’t think so. We’re eventually going to be “toleratized” into speaking second languages. Already happening. Check the classifieds.
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
Funny how people complain our immigration rules are complicated and unfair. TRY to get a visa for Russia or China. Look at how Mexico treats illegals sneaking into Mexico!
This is well beyond insanity and it needs to stop and I don’t see how this problem can be accomplished at the ballot box since BOTH PARTIES support open borders while 65 to 75% of Americans want to end open borders. They don’t care what we think. They have overthrown our constitution and the rule of law and the will of the people.
I am so sorry for the family of this little girl. It isn’t right and our government is doing everything they can to make sure this keeps happening.
She was buckled in.
She was. Fact.
Regardless, it doesn’t excuse the murder by yet another illegal.
I need to send a letter to Napolitano telling her to count me in as one of those RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS WHO DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT ENFORCE LAWS.
I wonder if they have an on-line application to speed the process along…
What we could do is, fund-raisers to bail these illegals out of jail and take them for a walk in the desert.
Justice does not have to come from a judge’s gavel.
I have only two minutes to post a comment.
I feel really sad for the family of the little girl. But you have to understand that this has absolutely nothing to do with the driver’s immigration status. He was convicted of several DUI offenses. Most undocumented aliens are law-abiding people, they work, they pay taxes, they don’t steal… The only solution is to give amnesty to all “illegal” aliens except for those convicted of an aggravated felony. This guy should be deported not because he was here “illegally” but because he was convicted of three serious traffic violations. I believe Geraldo Riviera is right in this regard; he still owes Ms Malkin an apology!!!
Just a reminder that we illegally went into Iraq and some of our soldiers accidentally or intentionally killed many little kids.
Okay guys, I have to rush off now.
Have a good weekend
Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’…
Are you a member of the VFW, American Legion or, other subversive groups ? They already have your info.
sarc
TO ALL WHO WOULD LIKE TO THANK LULAC FOR THEIR DE FACTO ASSISTANCE IN MURDERING THIS CHILD, I’ve put together an easy copy-and-past mailing list of every contact on their website:
RosaRosales@LULAC.org; BWilkes@LULAC.org; CMunoz@LULAC.org; EMendoza@LULAC.org; LJOlmos@LULAC.org; MBosques@LULAC.org; CEspinosa@LULAC.org; EGarcia@LULAC.org; IChavez@LULAC.org; GMorales@LULAC.org; SCaraveo@LULAC.org; DPerez@LULAC.org; MMarsans@LULAC.org; RMartinez@LULAC.org; JTrasmonte@LULAC.org; GLimon@LULAC.org; JRosas@LULAC.org
Send them a “thank you” message for their hand in ending the life of yet another American citizen.
The idiocy of that statement is too large to even try to describe.
Lil Swiss Miss wins another booby prize! Maybe she thinks violating the border is a “civil matter” too like Napolitano?
Ooh! (Hand goes up) I’ll try!!!
Is the answer “being here without authorization makes them law-breakers?”
(sent to the head of the class.)
Poor little mountainflower has apparently never had a rough day in her life and can afford to sit behind her ivory tower suckling off her parents money and dreaming that the world all fun and pleasant except for us evil capitalists in the United States!
I mean, who the he!! are we to expect the same level of courtesy for our sovereignty that other nations demand for themselves? I bet if we all acted like Switzerland there would be nothing but peace and love in the world.
(Hint: the Nazis didn’t act like Switzerland, neither did the japanese.) So if we did, where could mountainflower go for her peaceful summers in the alps?
Well imagine that. A liberal apologist. And look who it is too…one with absolutely none of the common sense that road kill carries.
Listen you idiot. It has EVERYTHING to do with his status.
See…if this country actually enforced it’s own laws and actually deported every single illegal alien it came into contact with, this scum sucking piece of filth who you and people just like you defend at every turn would not have been in this country illegally driving a car and killing a 4 year old child and injuring her mother and sister.
There is absolutely no cause and effect in your or other Liberal’s minds. You just can’t possibly be this stupid. No, wait…I take that back…you voted Obama.
No go away…seriously…this is not the type of posting where anyone wants to listen to mindless twits make excuses for criminal behaviour, especially as it pertains to needless deaths of children. Why don’t you go stand on a corner and hold up a sign about how Obama lied and people died. After all…it’s his war now.
RetFireman (#73) said:
Here in the UK we have the same problem with illegal immigrants that you have in the US (except that our illegals aren’t mexican). Because of our “admired” welfare state it seems that every “asylum seeker” crawls across the rest of Europe to reach our shores.
Europe doesn’t care because they know that the illegals are headed for Britain.
The British government doesn’t care – period!
The government has admitted that it has no idea how many illegals are in Britain.
I would suggest that you choose a different model for liberals to follow!
Troll wrote:
Yeah, it does. If he were forced to enter via the legal process, he would have to come here respecting our laws (a condition of maintaining a visa) or, more likely, he would have probably been discouraged from coming at all.
And what was this guy’s extraordinary and necessary contribution to this country again? Hmmmm, anyone…Beuller, Beuller…?
Come on now, there are very few Americans smart enough to tape drywall.
/sarc
Europe as a whole, not any one country. And yes, duly aware of the issues in GB, and this country would do well to remember them and what happens with unrestrained PC thuggery. How much longer before Britains are in the minority in London? 5 years?
DUI: Drywalling under the Influence…Yet, another job americans won’t do.
Hunter – Thanks! I appreciate the correction. I think you had this spot on:
Perfect. Law-abiding illegal aliens!
(head spins like Reagan in The Exorcist….)
And, “undocumented aliens” most of the time, have PLENTY of documentation – whether it’s legal or not, well, that’s a different story.
Lil Swiss Miss is suffering from oxygen depravation. It shows in every post…
Make the mexican government PAY for their citizen’s acts in this country.
I did not earn a paycheck, but that is how my garage was drywalled!
If the DMV “wasn’t able to verify” this mutts ID – why did they go and issue him a DL? When my son went for his license he had to show 2 items of photo ID besides his birth certificate!
Where are the ambulance chasers when you want one? Sue the DMV for nonfeasance.
Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord,
And let perpetual Light shine upon her.
May her soul
And the souls of all the faithful departed
Through the mercy of God
Rest in peace.
Amen.
And may God forgive the incompetent, power hungry politicians who would sacrifice the lives of their own constituents for a few extra votes from illegal aliens.
You are a much bigger person than I.