IS DIANE MORE DANGEROUS THAN FRANCISCO?

Foreigner Who Should Not Have Been Here Kills Five

This American is retroactively mad.  In July 2013 my traveling companions and I were treated worse by border patrol than Francisco Oropeza who shot and killed five in Cleveland, Texas last week.  I was a passenger in a car with three other Americans and one foreign national on a student visa when we were stopped and detained at the Canadian border.  Our car set off an alarm as we were driving through what looked like a huge metal detector.  We were told our car was radioactive and we were forced to pull next to the border patrol office and sit there for about an hour.  While we waited in the car, too afraid to get out, we wondered whether we would all be arrested or just one of us.

YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE

The number of foreign nationals who Obama illegally allowed into the country back then seemed like a lot, so I made a joke: “Let’s fly to Mexico and sneak across the southern border, it will be quicker.”  The joke fell flat with two of my traveling companions. These two grew up in a dictatorship so joking about being detained by authorities was not appreciated.

Eventually, men in uniforms collected our passports and asked us some questions.  The passenger with the student visa was required to go into the building.  They also walked around our car with a device that looked like a Geiger counter.  In the end, they told us that the huge machine had given off a false alarm and that we could enter the US.  No apology.  Should we kiss their bureaucratic asses?

Let us talk about Francisco Oropeza.  Did border patrol ever ask for his papers?  This Mexican national has been in the United States illegally since at least 2009.  That was the year he was arrested and convicted for an unknown crime, and later deported.  He re-entered at least four more times and was deported at least three more times, according to immigration records. In order words, border patrol allowed Oropeza to entered the United States at least five times.   

OROPEZA SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN AMERICA

Oropeza, age 38, walked next door with a rifle and fatally shot five of his neighbors, including an 8-year-old boy and a teenage girl, after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep.  The murders took place Friday night, April 28^th, in a single-story home near the rural town of Cleveland, about 45 miles north of Houston. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said that all the victims were believed to be from Honduras.*

“All of his rounds were from the neck up, so basically in the head,” Capers said.

There were 10 people in the house, some of whom had just moved there earlier in the week.*  Two of the victims were found in a bedroom laying over children in an apparent attempt to shield them. Two of the victims were found by the front door and the slain 8-year-old boy was in the front room, according to Capers. He said three other “blood-covered” children in the home were taken to a hospital but did not have injuries.  Two adults were also unharmed.

Wilson Garcia, who owned the house, lost both his wife and his eight-year-old son Daniel Enrique Laso Guzman.

After a five day manhunt, Oropeza was arrested 20 miles away outside of the city of Conroe where he was plotting his escape to his own country, Mexico.

*It is not known if the Garcia family and/or the new arrivals at the Garcia household are legal residents of the United States.  The media makes a point of NOT reporting the citizenship status of crime victims.