Criminal alien who killed nun issued federal work permit

Whenever there is a criminal incident involving an illegal alien, it appears more is done to conceal the immigration status of the suspect than to investigate the actual crime at hand.

According to a public-interest group that investigates public corruption, the drunken illegal immigrant who killed a nun in Virginia last month was not only released by federal authorities after previous arrests, he was issued a special Homeland Security work permit after two criminal convictions.

Just when you thought that government negligence had reached a plateau in this tragic incident, several news reports reveal that it gets worst. It turns out that the illegal alien from Bolivia, Carlos Montano, somehow obtained a special federal work permit -- issued by the Department of Homeland Security -- while he was awaiting deportation for previous offenses, according to officials at Judicial Watch, a non-partisan legal group. 

Montano already had two drunken driving convictions yet federal authorities released him on his own recognizance while he awaited a removal hearing. In the interim the illegal alien, intoxicated and driving with an expired license, swerved over a median in PrinceWilliamCounty, Virginia and slammed into a vehicle carrying three Catholic nuns. One died and two were critically injured, according to a police report.

Montano’s federal employment authorization card, known as an I-766 permit, was discovered only because Virginia authorities revealed that he used it to obtain a state identification card. Because of the Montano case, Virginia no longer accepts the federal card as proof of legal presence for those seeking state IDs or licenses from the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to Judicial Watch. 

Incredibly, the government regularly issues work permits to illegal immigrants who are scheduled to be deported for criminal conduct. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, PrinceWilliamCounty’s police chief diplomatically requests that the “glaring gap in DHS policy” be “reconsidered” and “corrected.”