Regardless of who Gov. “Dollar” Phil Bredesen takes on in the Tennessee gubernatorial race or if he spies himself a national ticket, he’s finally got his very own Willie Horton. Indeed, Coleridge himself couldn’t have scripted a heavier buzzard to hang around his neck when a career criminal and illegal immigrant from Mexico killed two people with his 5th DUI earlier this month:

Federal and local authorities are trying to figure out how an illegal immigrant from Mexico managed to avoid deportation despite being arrested more than a dozen times in the past five years, agency officials said Thursday.

Come now, it’s not that hard to figure out.

Gustavo Reyes Garcia, 28, has accumulated dozens of criminal charges and been arrested 14 times in Nashville without being flagged by federal authorities for being in the country illegally.

He caught their attention after he was accused of killing two people on June 8. It was his 15th arrest.
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Garcia’s past charges include four DUI arrests, evading arrest, and two separate incidents in which he was accused of leaving the scene of an accident where there was bodily injury.

Let’s see what the Governor had to say two months ago on the subject of illegal immigrants:

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the state or we ought to be spending a lot of our money having the Highway Patrol expanded to go out and look for illegal immigrants or something.”

Sean and Donna Wilson’s lives were not an appropriate expenditure of state funds according to Governor Gazpacho. That money should have been used on free TennCare for illegals, right?

They died for your sins, Governor.

Here’s what Bredesen’s successor, Mayor “Brokeback Bill” Purcell’s Chief of Police had to say about the problem 2 years ago in a typical example of local fluff called “Immigration enforcement not role for police, Serpas says “:

Question: You have said you steadfastly oppose closer cooperation between the police and immigration officials. Why?

Serpas: It’s foolish to think that this country’s immigration problems are going to be settled on the backs of local police officers. Those who have a different point of view? I welcome it. But I also welcome them to petition government to better fund INS so INS can do its job better.

That’s what you call, passing the peso, folks. A Chief who refuses to enforce a law. If you catch a man with counterfeit money is it not your job because that’s what the Secret Service does?

Don’t confuse that stain on your oaffish potbelly with chili rojo or pit BBQ sauce, lawdog – their blood is on your hands too. Although with a 61% increase in the murder rate last year, it is possible you could have confused their blood with all of the others.

What if your officers encounter someone here illegally in the course of their routine police work? Would you be in favor of turning those names over to immigration?

Serpas: And if one of the things on the list they’ve done wrong is being an illegal immigrant? I’m sure we turn that over. Don’t we call … (USCIS) and tell them?

Aaron (Police Spokesperson): No. But if people are arrested and charged with violent offenses, those types of persons are likely to involve some discussions or interventions with the immigration service.

And we should expect no less from a man who has ingratiated himself with illegals so much since then that three months ago they had the fucking nerve felt comfortable enough to ask him to BAN any illegal from being arrested for identity theft:

The recent arrest of a Latina murder victim’s boyfriend on charges of having false identification documents raised tensions between police and Nashville’s growing Hispanic community.

Rudy Aguilar was arrested for having false identification documents after calling police to report the murder of his girlfriend and 3-year-old daughter, authorities said. Prosecutors ultimately decided against filing charges, but Aguilar spent more than a week in jail.

Enacting a formal policy would prevent such arrests from happening as well as improve relations, Cunza said.

Really? Is that the important issue at hand or should the Hispano-hack’s focus have been on the murder of Aguilar’s girlfriend and three year old daughter who in all likelihood was killed by another illegal who roams free today under the blanket of de facto amnesty that the Nashville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce champions? Hiding under a cloak of cultural complicity until he kills again. Priorities, I guess.

Sadly, it’s going to take a lot more innocent dead people at the drunken steering wheels and strangling hands of our undocumented-Americans before the “don’t change coyotes in midstream” stewards of the state feel politically threatened enough to tell them to GTFO.

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