Illegal Immigrant Rescues Boy in Desert

[IndyOp]

Illegal Immigrant Rescues Boy in Desert
TERRY TANG | November 24, 2007 01:27 AM EST | AP

PHOENIX — A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.

The 45-year-old woman, who eventually died while awaiting help, had been driving on a U.S. Forest Service road in a remote area just north of the Mexican border when she lost control of her van on a curve on Thanksgiving, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said.

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Her son, unhurt but disoriented, crawled out to get help and was found about two hours later by Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26, of Magdalena de Kino in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Unable to pull the mother out, he comforted the boy while they waited for help.

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Jesus was later taken into custody by immigration authorities.

[Quixote1818]

1. Jesus is an illegal immigrant?

[TahitiNut]

3. Hey, Zeus!

Headin' for Olympia, huh?

[treestar]

2. Real life example

of something I like to point out when people jump up and down when an undcoumented immigrant does something illegal. If they weren't here, this crime wouldn't have been committed. As if no US born person ever commits crimes.

It's irrelevant, because as we see here, this good thing wouldn't have happened if the undocumented immigrant weren't here.

He's still deportable - but it shows the fallacy of the argument that since one immigrant commits a crime, it's related to the undocumented status.

[quickesst]

4. "As if no US born person ever commits crimes."

People commit crimes. Their citizenship status has nothing to do with it. After all, it's not as if no US born citizen has never committed to an act of bravery, and saved a life. They aren't heroes because they are undocumented, or a US citizen. They are heroes because they are good people, and this has no place in the debate over immigration. It's use here is less than stellar in it's honesty. My opinion. Thanks.
quickesst

[mvccd1000]

5. I beat you to it. :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

It was in the Arizona papers the other day.

[IndyOp]

8. Wow - Sorry I didn't see your post the other day.

I heard the story while listening to KPHX Saturday afternoon and then ran into the story online and had to post it.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #4, for O'LOOFAH's lurking producers. If he looks for every DWI by an undocumented, why not this

[treestar]

7. Exactly! It's a nonrelated issue.

The right just tries to pound it on this nonrelated meme, thinking no one will notice.