On Saturday night, Virginia Beach police arrested Jorge Alberto Fuertes Loredo, 31, and Isidor Loredo Amaya, 31, after Florentino Martinez-Melendez, 40, was shot to death in a trailer park. A second victim survived the shooting but remains in critical condition in a local hospital.
Apparently, the fatal shooting was the result of a heated argument.
Both Loredo and Amaya have been charged with murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Both Mexican nationals are in the country illegally, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have placed a hold on them.
Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney, Harvey Bryant, said that the two illegal aliens have been living in the state for quite some time.
Bryant said: "It appears that Mr. Amaya has been in Virginia for about 10 years, spending his time between Harrisburg, Virginia and here.”
A hearing for the two is scheduled for Feb. 4, 2010.
Both shooting victims were also illegal aliens.
This case demonstrates the ongoing dangers posed by the city’s large illegal immigrant population.
In April 2007, in Virginia Beach, Va., a Mexican national named Alfredo Ramos slammed into the rear of a vehicle in which Allison Kuhnhardt and Tessa Tranchant were stopped while waiting at a traffic light. Ramos, 22 was traveling at a high rate of speed and was drunk at the time (he blew a .14 BAC). The two high school students had to be cut from their crumpled car and both later died after being taken to the hospital. Ramos suffered only a busted lip.
Though an illegal alien, Alfredo Ramos had been living in Virginia Beach for quite a while and worked at local a Mexican restaurant known as Mi Casita. Ramos had been previously convicted of three separate charges of public intoxication, identity theft, and even a DUI, but continued to live in the area. He speaks only Spanish and required an interpreter at all of his court proceedings.
The girls which Ramos killed were ages 16 and 17. Tessa Tranchant's brother Dylan had only been home from Iraq for two weeks, when his sister was killed. Dylan was tasked with identifying his little sister's body. The case gained national fame thanks to the reporting of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who helped expose Virginia Beach as a haven for illegal aliens.
O’Reilly placed the spotlight on that city's Mayor and Police Chief and characterized the resort town as a place where drunken Mexican invaders are allowed to roam freely.
Immediately after the case was reported on the O’Reilly Factor, Virginia Beach Police Chief Jake Jacocks went on the offensive and claimed that O'Reilly was wrong in focusing on the fact that Ramos was an illegal alien. He accused the Fox News commentator of turning the girls' deaths into a "political issue."
However, local ABC affiliate WVEC showed that the police chief was at least culpable in the tragedy when they reported that "Chief Jacocks says the policy of not reporting illegals until after three DUI charges was his idea. He hoped it would let illegal immigrants feel comfortable if they were involved in an accident."
Former Mayor Obendorf told reporters: "I never want anyone to miss the fact that someone who was drunk caused the death of two innocent young women, and it had nothing to do with nationality or anyone doing anything inappropriate as far as the government is concerned."
While the leadership of Virginia Beach has never formally declared the city to be a 'sanctuary' for illegal aliens, the way the leadership of Chicago or Tucson have done, it is every bit the haven to invaders that those two cities represent. Virginia Beach is dominated by hotels, restaurants, and housing developers, all of which hire tremendous numbers of illegal aliens.
Hotel owners often declare that they could simply not operate without the influx of Mexican and Central American nationals who can frequently be seen passed out drunk on the beach during the summer. The city has also seen thousands of over-priced cookie cutter homes built in the last several years, most of which have been constructed by illegal Mexican labor.
The building boom turned local convenience and home improvement store parking lots into gathering spots for groups of often drunken Latino men. While the city is very happy raking in huge profits in increased real estate taxes, they pass precious little of that revenue on to the citizens. While having a population of 450,000 residents, Virginia Beach still relies solely on a volunteer rescue squad for medical emergencies.
*Reporter’s note: While city leaders bristled in 2007, at his accusations, Bill O'Reilly got it right. I live here and I am a daily witness to the unlawful transformation of this once beautiful city.
When I initially called the Virginia Beach Correctional Facility and asked a deputy about the immigration status of Loredo and Amaya, I was put on hold for quite a while. When the young man came back on the line, he directed me to another deputy. When I called that number with no answer, I started the process over again.
I was then told that whether or not ICE had placed a hold on the two was “privileged information” and he could not tell me. In fact, until I pressed him, he would not even tell me whether or not the Mexican nationals had been formally charged.
Despite the deputy’s insistence, the suspects’ immigration status is public information, but it was obvious he was only following orders from his superiors.
The rise in crime in Virginia Beach that can be attributed to illegal aliens is no doubt embarrassing to city officials. However, unless the city begins to take seriously the threat posed by the illegal aliens they have welcomed…They will continue to be asked uncomfortable questions as that city’s death toll rises.
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I'm not sure what kind of background you have, but this article tells me that it's a pretty shallow background. Amateur. If the information about the illegals was public information, then you would be able to find it by searching on the internet and wouldn't have to call a Deputy to ask. As for the city being "solely on a volunteer rescue squad for medical emergencies" I'm pretty sure your mistaken again.... Check your facts!
What is the argument here? every single alien "BROKE THE LAW!" Our Government, past & present, Republican & Democrat, have allowed the invasion of 20 to 30 million criminals and uneducated peons which is the largest invasion of any Nation, at any time, by any means & in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution.
This refusal to abide by our Constitution or enforce our Immigration Laws should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!
Not only have they allowed the invasion, they force American tax payers to pay Billions on Billions of dollars to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders numerous children, and free medical care, at the same time the invading horde break numerous laws and massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture and standard of living while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Sounds like a SANCTUARY CITY to me? I live in Phoenix Az. and ours is except for our SHERIFF and Deputies they trie to ENFORCE the LAWS?Most Local Yocal Polititians cater to the ILLEGALS and tell CITY POLICE dont bother the ILLEGALS.CLEAROUT YOUR ILLEGALS AND HAVE A REAL AMERICAN TOWN AGAIN. AN AMERICAN>>THINK ABOUT IT
This happens all over the country,city councils,mayors,police chiefs,govs,all benefited from the expansion of the housing and immigration while throwing the taxes on an ever decreasing middle class.
Times were good for awhile because the housing ponzi kept growing,now reality is here and a very dark time is here.
The citys will raise taxes to pay for police,teachers and all the other state union workers who benefitted,the Homebuilders and banks got their bailouts,and slowly as cuts will be made citys will start to crumble,but instead of having Americans together to burden what our corrupt leaders have done.The mass of uneducated poverty that they brought in to toil for their ever more greedy profits will demand and take from the people who paid and built the schools,librarys,roads,etc
I a just society that has a social contract some even unwritten these acts should not stand unpunished.
Another excellent piece by Dave Gibson. I've heard the same things about Virginia Beach from law and order conservatives hear there. Dave hit it on the nose: the City's Sanctuary Policy--which btw is against Federal Immigration law--is the problem. If cities began cracking down on illegals, many would leave. At some point, this will happen and illegal alien crime escalates with the worsening recession and with fewer and fewer jobs available.
Joebob- You are naive. Cities go out of their way to hide illegal alien criminals, usually with the help of the local media. Open your eyes.
As long as our Washington lawbreakers approve of illegal alien lawbreakers, they're pretty well set. Has anyone heard our President or anyone in Congress speak out on the murders, rapes, robberies, child molestation, domestic abuses and any other crimes these border jumper can think to commit? Nope! All we hear is the same mantra - "Hard working, family ties, only trying to feed their families, etc. Why has no one since Eisenhower demanded these people go home? We pour money into these countries - especially the corrupt country we have the misfortune with which to share a border. It's money that might as well be thrown away. It goes to the government/elite/drug csrtels - all one and the same. Pray that soon we get someone who will stand up to the special interest groups, will ignore the Hispanice caucus and all the other voices who want America destroyed and finally do what's in the best interest of legal, loyal, taxpaying citizens!
I live in N. Virginia and you just described how it looks up here. Drunk illegals everywhere. Trash. Over crowded homes. Crime.
Can't believe we have to put up with these nasty Latino losers who's children can't graduate from high school, join gangs, are seriously dumbing down American, when we need to compete with the rest of the world.
I'm starting to just dislike all Latinos.
something strange the ears look familar
Again, I say WAKE UP AMERICA!!! Illegal aliens have hoodwinked us to the point that we are so afraid to call things as they are for the sake of being PC. Anything we do that is not pro illegal immigration is called racist. This will continue unabated until we do something about it. No, don't say that we can't deport 30 million people...think of the cost, etc. I have a very cheap and inexpensive way of having them leave in hords...don't feed them! Even though their children (anchors) have received the benefits of our education system...including free lunch and breakfast, they have NEVER shown their appreciation, they are always critizicing us and asking for more. We have a responsibility to stop this NOW! Don't pick up anyone from Home Depot, etc., boycott restaurants that you see mexican/hispanics in the back room, etc. If they starve, they will find another place to go to, "...only here to feed our families." WAKE UP AMERICA!!! P.S., I am not a redneck, I am African American....
Maybe Obama and Nepolitano will get a clue and start interior enforcement of immigration laws rather than just ignoring it all and letting the problem get worse.
Well, let's connect the dots: John McCain followed Bush's recommendation and tried to amnesty 12 million illegals during Bush's last term. The Dems were, and are, trying to do the same thing.
Question: What is the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to law and order?
My suggestion: Don't vote for ANY politician who hasn't clearly stated that illegal aliens must be returned to their countries of origin.
The international elites want to dissolve all borders as quickly as possible (even if you aren't a conspiracy theorist, the evidence is all over the West. Example: There are no restrictions to travel over borders in Europe under the Schengen Agreement). We the real people are the only ones who can stop this scheme. DEMAND YOUR BORDERS.
More Americans have died at the hands of IAs than have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. On our own soil.
These two illegal alien creeps are the kind of people that many members of Congress want to give amnesty to. Call, write, fax, and email members of Congress and tell them "NO MORE AMNESTIES!".
"The rise in crime in Virginia Beach that can be attributed to illegal aliens"
Actually Einstein, crime has been FALLING in Virgina Beach!
FBI Uniform Crime Reports data;
2007 www.fbi.gov/ucr/2007prelim/table4ok_wi.htm
2008 www.fbi.gov/ucr/2008prelim/table_4ok-wi.html
2009 www.fbi.gov/ucr/2009prelimsem/table_4ok-wi.html
More immigrants = Less Crime?
www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/2006_NYT_OpenDoors.pdf
Demagoguery Notwithstanding!
Crime has been declining across the nation, even as immigration has soared!
Killings in the District, Pr. George's Have Fallen;
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902154.html?hpid=topnews
New York City has more murders in 1961;
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6LIJt1oDrxY&refer=us
NYC crime down 12% in 2009
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/28/nypd-crime-down-12-in-200_n_405010.html
Crime has fallen in Los Angeles for 6 consecutive years;
articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/01/local/me-socalcrime1
L.A. sheriff's department reports big drops in crime;
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/sheriffs-crime.html
Homicides plummet in San Francisco
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/30/MNIG1B1NGJ.DTL
El Paso, TX sits just across the river from a metropolis ripped apart by brutal drug war violence. Should be a bloodbath, right?
There were 'just' 18 murders in El Paso last year, in a city of 736,000 people. To compare, Baltimore, with 637,000 residents, had 234 killings.
www.reason.com/news/show/134579.html
Of course, demagogues fixate on the 'handful' of murders committed by 'illegal aliens' in El Paso as if this negates the fact that San Diego, Laredo, El Paso are cities are teeming with immigrants, yet they're some of the safest places in the country
'More Americans have died at the hands of IAs than have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan...'
Repeating this bold faced LIE ad nasueam doesn't change the fact that it was debunked years ago!
Illegals "kill 25 Americans every single day"
U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) in claimed in May 2006, in at least two speeches. and a press release that illegal immigrants murder 12 Americans each day and kill 13 each day as a result of drunken driving accidents, for a total of 25 deaths per
day!
www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) misleadingly "extrapolated" figures from an April 2005 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study to formulate the questionable statistic regarding the number of deaths caused by illegal immigrants, the GAO report itself makes no such claim.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf
blogs.chron.com/bluebayou/2006/11/fanning_the_immigration_flames.html
colorado.mediamatters.org/
Two down and two to go. Why can't we just deport them all? Why should time and money be spent in the court system, then we have to pay guards in jails and prisons, feed and cloth them, provide their medical needs, etc. etc...JUST DEPORT EVERY ILLEGAL IN OUR COUNTRY ASAP... This would cut down on the crimes, our Medicaid/Hospital and Court expenses just off the top of my head..We must remember the Mexican's are many, but nearly as many as the illegal Middle Easterner's in our country that need to be deported. The Mexican's drink, do drugs, etc., but the Illegal M/E mean us a great deal more harm. Why can't we bring our military home to round them up and deport them, and secure our borders, airports, etc.. as should be done. The M/E's come and commit their crimes, launder their money in opening their own business, continue their criminal acts and sent large sums to terrorist cells that mean do kill us all...If you agree, great, if not, you must be an illegal.
Sigh, It is sufficiently evident how stupid a huge segment of we Americans are. To allow these mestizo criminals to run amuk in our nation, committing mayhem in our communities and yet not firing, prosecuting and voting out the useless people in Washington that enable this endless crap. These fricking people need to be deported out of this blessed nation on the fastest thing smoking headed towards old Mejico. Unbelievable. P.S. keep voting in the treasonous and moronic leftists that want open borders and to have us flooded with thousands of these criminal Mestizos.
By the way, I wonder how many Americans realize that there are thousands, THOUSANDS!! of Sanctuary cities throughout California alone. Of course, Sanctuary Cities are utterly, and totally a violation of U.S. immigration law, and every single city council member including the Mayors of those cities, should be fired and prosecuted for criminally ignorning existing U.S. Law. The liberal traitor Democrat Party is also responsible, since they enable this crap and are even planning another illegal amnesty of border criminals. THIS ISSUE IN ITS ESSENCE IS SO UTTERLY SIMPLE. AMERICANS NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES, ONE THING. "DO YOU WANT AN OPEN BORDER TO THE WORLD OR DO YOU NOT. IF YOU DON'T YOU CANNOT VOTE FOR THE OPEN BORDER DEMOCRAT OR RINO POLITICIANS, BECAUSE YOU ARE SHOOTING YOURSELVES IN THE FOOT.
I see that Human Being, La Raza's Minister of Propaganda, has stopped by to copy and paste the same deceptive and out-of-context "facts" and "statistics" that he/she has posted on many other forums and message boards. Human Being has been given the difficult job of trying to convince Americans that having 15-20 million (or more) illegal alien lawbreakers in the United States is good for this country.
Human Being says:
"More immigrants = Less Crime?"
Nope. Every illegal alien who is working, or has worked in the Unites States has committed one or more crimes, and some of these crimes are felonies. Among the crimes that illegal aliens have committed by working here are ID theft, document fraud, Social Security fraud, employment "I-9 Form" fraud, income tax evasion, and conspiracy to violate immigration laws. Many illegal aliens have also committed welfare fraud and food stamp fraud.
These crimes are in addition to violent and sexual crimes that many illegal aliens have committed including murder, attempted murder, rape, statutory rape, child molestation, assault, battery, robbery, spousal abuse, etc.
Get the %$#@ out of here human being! If you love illegal invaders so much, relocate to tijuana where you can preach your la raza propaganda to someone who cares. No one is going to miss your sorry @$$ here.
Even one crime committed by an illegal invader is one crime that could have been prevented, but for this countries refusal to enforce our immigration laws.
You want to refute that human being???
PROTECTED BY GUTLESS VOTEWHORES...
Senator Ben Nelson, who cast the 60th vote in the Senate on the Health Bill, in 1998 he and war hero Senator Bob Kerry of Nebraska killed the Operation Vanguard which would have stopped Illegal Aliens from coming into the whole United States. I have vacationed in Virginia Beach. I thought they stopped SANCTUARY POLICIES after the two girls were killed by the 22 year old illegal. Be sure and send a Thank You to Senator Ben Nelson who is an absolute "RAT" on IMMIGRATION and SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson likes people like the "Human Being," who is probably some freak from Appleseed, LaRaza, or the ACLU. You see Senator Ben Nelson gets greased by Packing Houses and left-wing trial lawyers. Check out his donors on opensecrets.com. Three seperate fatality accidents in Omaha, Nebraska this last year caused by Illegals that fled the country. One was a four year old little girl that was a little angel. Thnks to politicians lke "RAT" Ben Nelson and Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Johnn McCain. May you all go to H.
Many states are falling into the same financial hole as the SANCTUARY STATE of California, Arizona, with liberal overcrowded assemblies giving illegal immigrants a large spectrum of taxpayers money. A startling new report unveils the details of a secret meeting between big business and open-borders groups working under the umbrella of the ImmigrationWorksUSA lobbying group. USE YOUR VOTE TO STOP THIS INSANITY? SEND YOUR 28CENT POSTCARDS TO YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN SAYING--NO--TO AMNESTY. YOU WILL--NOT--FIND THE TRUTH IN THE NATIONAL PRESS, BUT MUST FIND YOUR ANSWERS AT NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIAL WATCH
We gave amnesty in 1986, this is result.Forget about "voting them out", Call, Fax, E-mail YOUR REPs TODAY!!!FOCUS on ISSUES NOW!!!
As others have noted, it's not only razas, they're coming from everywhere.Politics are local, so start with your town or city, let your council people or county supervisors know, THAT YOU ARE AWARE.
So now we get to support these criminals in jail instead of on welfare......
I've lost in faith in our "leaders" where illegal only applies to taxpaying US Citizens.
It appears ILLEGAL immigrants and Government Officials seem to have a "get out of jail free" card with no exp. date. The lives of Tessa and Ali could and should have been prevented.
The devastation goes beyond the physical loss, in affect we all died that night, our lives forever changed. We're not the same physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Life doesn’t feel safe or predictable. The longing for a child taken so early, is a pain I wish on no one. Tessa’s siblings live physically , but gone is the life in their eyes, replaced by pain.
It's beyond comprehension when the sheriff of Maricopa County a hero in my eyes, enforces the law to protect our borders and citizens, is being treated like a criminal, and called a racist. Our Country was based on the Constitution, not bullying and name calling to manipulate.
The city did send a letter over the holidays to me, $1,000 bill for admin
DEBERIAN DE APLICARLE PENA DE MUERTE ... MALDITOS ASESINOS... YA CON NADA REMEDIAN LA MUERTE DE UN SWER HUMANO
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