Reply #68: The question is... [View All]

are you comfortable with the police asking about immigration status? If not, as in SB1070, then how are the police supposed to know that the guy is a foreign national?
Plus this guy has been in the US since he was two years old. So he was legally a mexican citizen, but had lived here all of his life. The US is the only home he's ever known. He probably didn't know about his rights because he had never been told.
He did know that rape and murder were illegal and might result in the death penalty. I mean... he lives in Texas. He has to know our reputation. But made the decision anyway. He raped that poor girl with a piece of wood and killed her. He got caught. Maybe his rights were technically violated by not calling the Mexican consolate right away, maybe they weren't. But the fact is that he made a poor decision and a young woman died horribly as a result of his decision. He was tried, convicted, sentenced under the laws that he has been living under for all of his life.
The Mexican government eventually learned about the case. Could they have helped him if they found out about it earlier? Who knows? But when people come to the US, they live under our laws and face the consequences for violating those laws. Same if we go to another country. If you are a woman you won't be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. If you don't like that, don't go to other countries. People don't want to risk the death penalty, don't kill people in the US.
I don't root for death for anyone. I'm anti execution. I'm in favor of life in prison for someone like this. I think the execution would be more like escape for someone that did something like this. He doesn't have to live with it. I think he should be put into a cage and left there 23 hours a day until the day he dies. But the fact is that he lived here all of his life, made a poor decision, and paid for that decision under the laws he lived under. Mexico and the UN have no say in this.