Two held in drive-by slaying of toddler

[Rink]

Posted on Thu, Jun. 15, 2006

Two held in drive-by slaying of toddler

By BILL MILLER
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Two men have been arrested in the murder of an 18-month-old girl in a drive-by shooting at her family's home in Farmers Branch.

Lorenzo Conejo and David Macias face capital murder charges in the May death of Eva Gallegos, according to NBC 5. Police said they are illegal immigrants and have been reported to immigration authorities.

Eva was fatally wounded as she slept in her bedroom of the single-story house in the 2600 block of Overland Street. Police have said that as many as 13 rounds were fired into the home.

Farmers Branch police were unavailable Thursday morning to discuss how the suspects were identified and arrested.

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[Antigone]

Police said they are illegal immigrants and have been reported to immigration authorities.

Anymore that statement will get you a big "So?" comment from me. Like reporting them seems to do any good these days.

[Wolfcounsel]

"Anymore that statement will get you a big "So?" comment from me. Like reporting them seems to do any good these days." --Antigone

Same here. All the crime they do here will not succeed in dislodging the lips of our public servants from Vicente's butthole.

[Lubbock]

Today, 6/20/2006, First paragraph in an article in USAToday:

CHICAGO — Despite a federal effort to enlist help from local police to catch illegal immigrants, some of the USA's biggest cities are declining to enforce immigration laws. Police chiefs, mayors and city councils are ordering local cops not to get involved as federal agents crack down on people in the country illegally.

[Dowple]

I grew up in Farmers Branch, which is just outside of Dallas, along LBJ Fwy to the south and I-35N to the West. Back then, it was a low mid middle class city, almost 99 percent White and Protestant. The local high school, R.L. Turner, had the same demographics. Recently the Texas TAKS scores for public schools came out and indicated the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD was 50 percent students from "low income" families. It's no coincidence that R. L. Turner is now 60 percent mexican. Test scores have plummeted. Neighborhood crime has soared. The places my friends and I played in and around in the 1960s have become No-Go zones for Whites and, now, as we see, a place for criminal illegals and their drug running families. What a sewer my old hometown has become.

[Riverboat]

Come on, they are only doing the jobs Americans are too lazy to do!Except for law enforcement, apparently.

[Wolfcounsel]

"The places my friends and I played in and around in the 1960s have become No-Go zones for Whites and, now, as we see, a place for criminal illegals and their drug running families." --Dowple

Let them try that in my neighborhood. Go get some payback.

[uncommon1]

Come on, they are only doing the jobs Americans are too lazy to do! Just ask Bush.

I guess it's a good thing we have illegal aliens here then, as American citizens won't perform the drive by shootings and kill innocent children. We should import more illegals so that we can have more drive by murders of innocents. Fry 'em and leave 'em in the desert as a warning to their friends.

[Kathy29]

No matter how henious and revolting the crimes committed by illegals are, they are fully supported by religious groups and the government. There is no crime that cannot be ignored or glossed over or blamed on racisim.

[Rhino]

Today, 6/20/2006, First paragraph in an article in USAToday:

CHICAGO — Despite a federal effort to enlist help from local police to catch illegal immigrants, some of the USA's biggest cities are declining to enforce immigration laws. Police chiefs, mayors and city councils are ordering local cops not to get involved as federal agents crack down on people in the country illegally.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-19-immigration-enforcement_x.htm

......"Vulnerable people have always needed to see the police as being there to protect and serve, and that can't happen when the first words out of a cop's mouth are, 'I need to see your papers,' " Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said.......

.........Several jurisdictions have refused to help. Chicago police and city workers are prohibited from asking immigrants about their legal status. Rybak asked ICE agents last month to stop identifying themselves as "police." New York City's public hospitals promised last month that they would keep secret an immigrant's legal status.

In the broadest signal of opposition, a national group representing 57 big-city police chiefs warned this month that local enforcement of federal immigration laws would "undermine trust and cooperation" among immigrants......