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Colorado man charged in DUI crash that killed Broomfield mother and son sentenced in 2 other DUI cases 4 days earlier
By Shaun Boyd
A Boulder County man accused in a deadly crash that killed a mother and son near Broomfield High School has a long history of drinking and driving. CBS News Colorado has learned Jose Menjiaur-Alas pled guilty to two separate drunk driving charges just four days before the crash that killed Melissa Powell and her 16-year-old son Riordan.
Court documents show Menjiaur-Alas has five drinking and driving-related convictions dating back to 2007, four of them in Boulder County and one in Denver.
Again and again, he's been put on probation and, again and again, he's violated it, continuing to drink and drive until his next arrest. In each case, he's been released on no or low bond, failed to reappear for his hearing, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
That may explain why he didn't face sentencing for the two DUI cases from 2016 and 2019 until this month. The Boulder County District Attorney's Office allowed him to plead both cases down to lesser charges of Driving While Ability Impaired, despite having three prior drinking and driving-related convictions, multiple probation violations, and repeatedly failing to appear in court.
A Boulder County judge sentenced Menjiaur-Alas to probation, community service and work release on Dec. 8. He left the courthouse and four days later, investigators say, he got drunk, got behind the wheel and drove his truck into a car outside of Broomfield High School, killing the mother and son.
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty told CBS News Colorado that he takes cases involving repeat DUI offenders very seriously saying, "There is no excuse for drunk driving and a person must be held responsible for their decision to drink and drive. We will review the court records, including the sentence imposed by the court."
Menjiaur-Alas is being held on a $100,000 bond. He would need to post 10% of that - or $10,000 - to get out.
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EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Immigrant Deported Four Times Charged With Killing Colorado Mother, Son In DUI Crash
JENNIE TAER INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER January 08, 2024 1:42 PM ET FONT SIZE:
A man who came to the U.S. illegally and was subsequently deported four times allegedly killed a mother and her son in Colorado, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas, who is from El Salvador, was previously deported four times after initially sneaking into the country undetected, ICE said. Menjivar-Alas, 37, was charged with vehicular homicide reckless, vehicular homicide DUI and habitual traffic offender after he allegedly crashed his vehicle and killed 47-year-old Melissa Powell and her 16-year-old son, Riordan, on Dec. 12, according to the Broomfield Police Department.
The accused has four convictions from Boulder County Court for alcohol-related driving offenses that occurred between 2007 and 2019, ICE said. A Boulder County judge had sentenced Menjivar-Alas to probation, community service and work release four days before his latest alleged offense, according to CBS News.
“Sanctuary policies not only lack any public benefit but also contribute to an increase in crime against citizens. By giving sanctuary to illegal aliens, these policies inadvertently enable them to commit crimes without consequences. The safety of citizens must be our utmost concern,” retired ICE Denver Field Office Director and current board member with National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) John Fabbricatore told the DCNF.
“The failures of Colorado’s sanctuary policies allowed a convicted criminal to stay in our local communities on probation, intentionally avoiding notifying ICE. If sanctuary policies were abolished, these unnecessary deaths could have been prevented. We must end sanctuary policy and secure the border now!” Fabbricatore, who is also running for Congress, said.
ICE Denver lodged a detainer with Broomfield County to seek his arrest, the agency spokesperson said. Menjivar-Alas was deported in June 2009, June 2012, November 2014 and January 2015.
“ICE records show that the subject has been previously removed and has no regard for immigration law. As part of its routine operations, ICE targets and arrests noncitizens who commit crimes and other individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws,” the ICE spokesperson told the DCNF.
“All noncitizens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removed from the United States, regardless of nationality,” the spokesperson added.
Research by Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky and co-authors uncovers the most extensive evidence to date that immigrants are less likely to be imprisoned than U.S.-born individuals.
Opponents of immigration often argue that immigrants drive up crime rates. But newly released research from Stanford economist Ran Abramitzky and his co-authors finds that hasn’t been the case in America for the last 140 years.
The study
reveals that first-generation immigrants have not been more likely to be imprisoned than people born in the United States since 1880.
Today, immigrants are 30 percent less likely to be incarcerated than are U.S.-born individuals who are white, the study finds. And when the analysis is expanded to include Black Americans — whose prison rates are higher than the general population — the likelihood of an immigrant being incarcerated is 60 percent lower than of people born in the United States.
While other research has also debunked claims that immigration leads to more crime, this study of incarceration rates provides the broadest historical look at the relationship between immigration and crime across the country and over time, says author Abramitzky. Abramitzky is the Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics and senior associate dean of social sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences, as well as a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
The study is detailed in a working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, it focuses on immigrants present in the Census regardless of their legal status and on men between the ages of 18 and 40.
“From Henry Cabot Lodge in the late 19th century to Donald Trump, anti-immigration politicians have repeatedly tried to link immigrants to crime, but our research confirms that this is a myth and not based on fact,” says Abramitzky, whose 2022 book, Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success, examines the many misconceptions around immigration.
In their analysis of Census data from 1850 to 2020, Abramitzky and his co-authors find that, compared to U.S.-born individuals, immigrants as a group had higher incarceration rates before 1870 and similar rates between 1880 and 1950. Since 1960, however, immigrants have been less likely to be incarcerated than have the U.S.-born.
According to the study, this is the case for almost every region in the world that is a major source of immigrants to the United States. As of 2019, immigrants from China and eastern and southern Europe were committing the fewest number of crimes — as measured by incarceration rates — relative to U.S.-born individuals.
The exception is Mexican and Central American immigrants, but the higher incarceration rates for this group since 2005 is largely attributed to the fact that the Census data combines incarceration for criminal acts with detentions for immigration-related offenses, the researchers say in the paper. Incarceration rates among Mexican and Central American immigrants were similar to those of U.S.-born individuals between 1980 and 2005.
What’s more, comparing the imprisonment of Mexican and Central American immigrants to that of white males born in the United States based on education tells a different story, according to Abramitzky. Men without a high school degree are the group most likely to be incarcerated for criminal activity. “But Mexican and Central American immigrants with low levels of education, which comprise a large share of immigrants from this region, are significantly less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born men with similarly low levels of education,” he says.
Abramitzky’s co-authors include Leah Platt Boustan, an economics professor at Princeton and co-author of Streets of Gold; Elisa Jácome, an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern and a former SIEPR postdoctoral fellow; Santiago Pérez, an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Davis; and Juan David Torres, a Stanford PhD student in economics and former predoctoral fellow at SIEPR. Immigrants vs. U.S.-born: Different economic forces
In setting out to compare criminality over time, the researchers took on a big challenge: Finding credible evidence of a connection between immigration and crime — and over a long time period — is extremely difficult. Other studies have relied on arrests records, but those do not include immigration status or birthplace. They also include arrests for minor infractions, which can reflect police bias more than actual crimes.
Instead, Abramitzky and his collaborators chose to analyze incarceration rates, which they say are better indicators of serious crime because they often require a conviction. As their primary data source, they turned to decennial censuses and surveys from the U.S. Census Bureau, which include information on individuals in correctional facilities and their birthplace — thereby allowing the researchers to build what they say is the first nationally representative dataset of incarceration rates for immigrants and the U.S.-born going back 170 years.
The researchers say it’s not entirely clear why the data show that immigrants have been imprisoned at increasingly lower rates than U.S.-born males since 1960.
“Many of the explanations we had in mind turned out to NOT be right when we looked at the data,” Abramitzky says. For example, examining differences in age, marital status, or education levels among immigrants didn’t provide a clue. Nor did changes in immigration policy or the states in which immigrants settled.
It is also unlikely, he says, that deportations contributed to the relatively lower rates of immigrant incarcerations.
The researchers conclude the likely explanation is that first-generation immigrants are faring better overall (and not just with respect to incarceration rates) than are U.S.-born men — especially compared to those without a high school diploma.
Globalization and advances in technology have hit white males hard, especially those who were born in the United States and who didn’t finish high school. Compared to immigrants, they are much more likely to be unemployed, unmarried, and in poor health — and perhaps more prone to commit crimes as a result, Abramitzky says.
The manual jobs that immigrants typically take on have been stable by comparison. Other studies have shown that immigrants also are, among other characteristics, highly adaptable and resilient.
“Recent waves of immigrants are more likely to be employed, married with children, and in good health,” Abramitzky says. “Far from the rapists and drug dealers that anti-immigrant politicians claim them to be, immigrants today are doing relatively well and have largely been shielded from the social and economic forces that have negatively affected low-educated U.S.-born men.”
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
The former president this week claimed that immigrants are coming from “mental institutions and insane asylums” and that Hannibal Lecter ― the cannibalistic serial killer from “Silence of the Lambs” ― is entering the country.
“Did you ever hear of Hannibal Lecter? They’re being dropped into our country. Hannibal Lecter is coming in, lots of them!” Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire.
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I'm not so sure about that. With some I think you are correct. There are too many immigrants coming across the border. We can't take on immigrants from the entire continent of South America and Central America. It's simply too much. As of now leaders in the senate and the Biden administration are working on bipartisan legislation to address that. They're trying to find an effective compromise. I support that and I'm all for that.
However the people you seem to be describing have said they will derail any such efforts as soon as it hits the floor of the House. As I've shown, they don't actually want to fix anything as long as Biden is president because they feel it may help him in the election. Party over country. All I was actually doing was showing that factually, from a statistical basis, this myth claiming that immigrants raise the crime rate is a false narrative.
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The last thing that an immigrant wants to do is to get cross with the law. The will do most anything to avoid interaction, which in of itself can be a problem. Lots of unreported domestic issues.
There will be no playoffs. Can’t play with who we have out there and compounding it with garbage playcalling and worse execution. We don’t have good skill players on offense period. Browns 20 - Bears 17.
I almost started a different thread (I should have, one is in order): "What you you won't see on State TV"
I'm not arguing that all these immigrants are criminals, although there are plenty of "bad hombres" crossing the border. You've never heard me beating that drum in these hallowed halls.
Does anyone else find it curious that this receives no attention from the liberal media? The same media (along with our esteemed White House) that made Abbott out to be a murderer 24/7 last week?
And why would CBS just ignore that fact that he is an illegal immigrant that has been deported four times?
I've been paying attention. Red state TV and Blue state TV said totally different things about Covid. Just as they say pretty much the opposite thing about almost everything. Red states listen to Red State TV and Blue states listen to Blue State TV. Both have their share of bias and propaganda. To pretend it's otherwise is only fooling yourself. A portion of the reason why the division in America is so wide is because of this very thing. One side is just as guilty as the other.
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CBS was the one legacy lefty news source to report this story, why do you think they would leave out those details? I mean, the border disaster and immigration problem is the #1 issue with almost all voters on both sides.
Maybe some people don't see the importance of where someone came from when it comes to the crimes they commit. It seems you have decided to ignore the nasty and hateful comments trump has been making about immigrants. When factually the crime rate is higher among American citizens that immigrants. The painting and promotion of a false narrative is not attractive.
You see, continuing to concentrate on the fact of where someone came from that has committed a crime ONLY when they are an immigrant only continues to poison people's minds towards them. When in fact they actually have a lower crime rate than citizens. I've never considered promoting a racial stereotype when the facts certainly do not support it as a positive thing.
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I'm not sure if that GIF is him building a wall or taking it down. It looks like he can't make up his mind. He keeps repeating himself while getting nowhere. No wonder you like it.
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Nov. 15, 2023 An increasing number of migrants arrested at the southern border over the past year are on the United States’ terrorist watch list, according to government data.
From October last year to this September, officials at the southern border arrested 169 people whose names matched those on the watch list, compared with 98 during the previous fiscal year and 15 in 2021, according to government data. But that is a minuscule fraction of the total number of migrants who were apprehended at the border over the past year, more than two million.
The increase appears to reflect at least two factors, a surge in illegal crossings and the number of people arriving from a wider variety of countries than in previous years.
Not that facts ever matter in this place... facts are for Pit to make fun of and OCD... well, I don't even know how he comes up with his responses.
Maybe some people don't see the importance of where someone came from when it comes to the crimes they commit. It seems you have decided to ignore the nasty and hateful comments trump has been making about immigrants. When factually the crime rate is higher among American citizens that immigrants. The painting and promotion of a false narrative is not attractive.
You see, continuing to concentrate on the fact of where someone came from that has committed a crime ONLY when they are an immigrant only continues to poison people's minds towards them. When in fact they actually have a lower crime rate than citizens. I've never considered promoting a racial stereotype when the facts certainly do not support it as a positive thing.
You sound like Mr. Rogers... on crack.
If somebody kills someone, drunk in a car, who shouldn't even have a license, then having been deported four times IS part of the story. Whether you or any of your whiney-azz snowflakes want to believe it or not.
And your second paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Please attribute that to anything I've ever said or done here since post #1. I haven't concentrated on anything, I don't pick and choose. If they were black they were black, or white, green, whatever. Your little "poison people's minds" crap makes it sound like you just wet yourself. If a ______ person killed someone, it's impossible for it to be a racial stereotype in and of itself.
Obviosly, I meant shouldn't be behind the wheel, my bad.
Do prisons stop people? Simple... Illegal commits crime on US soil, illegal is deported... illegal comes back and is caught, life in prison. Border prison where they serve corn husks for dinner.
If somebody kills someone, drunk in a car, who shouldn't even have a license, then having been deported four times IS part of the story. Whether you or any of your whiney-azz snowflakes want to believe it or not.
And your second paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Please attribute that to anything I've ever said or done here since post #1. I haven't concentrated on anything, I don't pick and choose. If they were black they were black, or white, green, whatever. Your little "poison people's minds" crap makes it sound like you just wet yourself. If a ______ person killed someone, it's impossible for it to be a racial stereotype in and of itself.
The story is the crime. Using something as a means to further anti immigration sentiment isn't attractive. I see rather than having discussions you have reverted back to your usual tactics. That's fine. Just remember that's a two way street. Many Americans drive with no license. Should part of the story be that they are Americans?
Instead you seem eager to point the finger at a group with a lower crime rate than Americans. Hmmmm....
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Now all you have to do is explain Eve's crazy accusation. Which is after all what the discussion was about before she tried to derail it. Her claim was and I quote....
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Thanks libtards for letting terrorists waltz through security.
She is referring to immigrants already in this country. Can you provide any evidence of these people flying are terrorists? You don't really have to put you ass on the line for every crazy thing Eve says you know.
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Nov. 15, 2023 An increasing number of migrants arrested at the southern border over the past year are on the United States’ terrorist watch list, according to government data.
From October last year to this September, officials at the southern border arrested 169 people whose names matched those on the watch list, compared with 98 during the previous fiscal year and 15 in 2021, according to government data. But that is a minuscule fraction of the total number of migrants who were apprehended at the border over the past year, more than two million.
The increase appears to reflect at least two factors, a surge in illegal crossings and the number of people arriving from a wider variety of countries than in previous years.
Not that facts ever matter in this place... facts are for Pit to make fun of and OCD... well, I don't even know how he comes up with his responses.
Yeah, you didn't jump in and respond to the conversation where Eve said they were allowing terrorists to fly. She tried to move the goal posts mid stream and you, trying to play the hero jumped right in.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
If somebody kills someone, drunk in a car, who shouldn't even have a license, then having been deported four times IS part of the story. Whether you or any of your whiney-azz snowflakes want to believe it or not.
And your second paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Please attribute that to anything I've ever said or done here since post #1. I haven't concentrated on anything, I don't pick and choose. If they were black they were black, or white, green, whatever. Your little "poison people's minds" crap makes it sound like you just wet yourself. If a ______ person killed someone, it's impossible for it to be a racial stereotype in and of itself.
The story is the crime. Using something as a means to further anti immigration sentiment isn't attractive. I see rather than having discussions you have reverted back to your usual tactics. That's fine. Just remember that's a two way street. Many Americans drive with no license. Should part of the story be that they are Americans?
Instead you seem eager to point the finger at a group with a lower crime rate than Americans. Hmmmm....
Nope. Not at all. That's the narrative you want to switch to in your never-ending game of pin the tail on the goalposts.
I'm not pointing the finger at any group. I'm talking about one criminal illegal piece of human trash. Since none of your State TV sources will say anything about the fact that he's a four-time-deported illegal immigrant, I will. Now you know the whole story -- you're welcome. If you don't like it, find a safe space.
Just because she's talking about the 200 illegals on the terror watch list that entered the country during Biden's Border Disaster doesn't make all the other news story concerning this other-wordly-stranger-than-fiction approach toward the disaster irrelevant.
Nope. Not at all. That's the narrative you want to switch to in your never-ending game of pin the tail on the goalposts.
A narrative is something you add to what happened. The crime is what happened. The immigrant narrative is what you wish to be added.
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I'm not pointing the finger at any group. I'm talking about one criminal illegal piece of human trash. Since none of your State TV sources will say anything about the fact that he's a four-time-deported illegal immigrant, I will. Now you know the whole story -- you're welcome. If you don't like it, find a safe space.
You can say anything you want. But no matter where he is from, no matter how many times he has been deported, that has zero impact on the story of what actually happened. So yes, you are pointing your finger at a group no matter how much you wish to deny it. And if I needed a safe space I wouldn't be on here taking on the likes of you and Eve, and Jim. Taking on the deplorables is what I do.
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Just because she's talking about the 200 illegals on the terror watch list that entered the country during Biden's Border Disaster doesn't make all the other news story concerning this other-wordly-stranger-than-fiction approach toward the disaster irrelevant.
Comprende, DT police??
So long answer short you have no evidence that any of the immigrants that boarded those planes were terrorists. Thanks.
You see, I think they should all have to have photo ID's as well. That we agree on. What I won't do is uphold some of the crazy, unsubstantiated word vomit that people like Eve posts that have no basis in fact in order to paint a false narrative. You seem to have no problem with it.
Aw, you are trying to give me the power of the police. How nice of you sweetie.
Could you explain to your audience what the difference if a terrorist would take a bus, train or a plane to reach their destination? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Lol. Nevermind. The possibility of two different posts with two different points is waaay over your head. You combine them to make one and then dispute it.
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Could you explain to your audience what the difference if a terrorist would take a bus, train or a plane to reach their destination? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yet every other terrorist attack in America has had nothing to do with flying in an airplane. From the Murrah Federal Building to the World trade Center bombing of 1993. But as per usual you use the exception to the rule rather than the rule itself. I expected as much.
The fact you jumped into a discussion about Eve claiming "Thanks libtards for letting terrorists waltz through security." and are now playing the denial game seems to escape you.
Speaking of amateur hour.
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Next they'll be kicking Texas out of that park on the same grounds. Interfering with and preventing border agents from doing their job. Abbott's publicity stunts are coming to a close.
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I'm anxious to see how much razor wire they start cutting out now that it's clear that the border-crisis-not-border-crisis-secure-border-not-secure-border is about to cost Biden the presidency.
Since the Republicans refuse to reach a border deal to help the crisis I imagine people will be dumb enough to fall for yet another political stunt by them. Who is saying it's not a crisis? Even Biden says it is. More Faux News misinformation or are you even further down the rabbit hole than that?
House Republican says he won't accept a border deal because it may help Biden politically
"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"
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