Illegal alien's 'inexcusable' crime sparks interstate clash between GOP sen, Dem gov: 'You should be ashamed'
A Connecticut license. An Ohio stop sign. A 29-year-old dead in a 1993 Suburban.
Summary
- Fox News reports Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said an illegal alien given a Connecticut driver license killed 29-year-old Austin J. Karr Grimes of Fayette in a reckless crash and that Connecticut has issued more than 60,000 such licenses.
- Ohio State Highway Patrol said Guillermo Naula-Ochoa, 34, driving a 2024 Ram 3500 westbound in Fulton County on Aug. 29, failed to yield at a stop sign on State Route 66 and struck Grimes's 1993 GMC Suburban. Grimes was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Naula-Ochoa, an Ecuadoran listed as homeless at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and failure to yield. DHS confirmed an ICE detainer. Two passengers in his truck were unhurt. Two in the Suburban had minor injuries.
- Moreno's letter said Connecticut encourages the licenses, blasted a 2024 bid to strip the drive-only mark, and asked how many holders committed crimes or voted. Gov. Ned Lamont offered condolences and said drive-only licenses reduce hit-and-runs by putting drivers in the insurance system.
Commentary
A Fayette dad still hears gravel under a 1993 Suburban and wants a stop sign that means stop, not a out-of-state card that never should have been printed. He did not pay Ohio fuel tax so Hartford could own Route 66.
Sixty thousand cards. One stop sign. One 29-year-old. The honest mom already paid the funeral. The license paid the intersection.
Ask every working father who still teaches a kid to brake at a county stop: if Hartford can mint 60,000 cards, who still owns the next yield?
Comments
2024 Ram. 1993 Suburban. Failed to yield. Dead at the scene. That is the file.
I taught a private to halt at a painted line. A card without status is not mercy.
Naula-Ochoa 34. Ecuador. ICE detainer. 60,000 cards. 2024 mark-strip bid. Publish the five.
Allied prefectures still license citizens first. An interstate card is a second border.
Fulton County Aug. 29. SR 66. CCNO homeless. File the booking next to Hartford.
I still drive a rusted truck to a 5 a.m. clock. I want the detainer to end in a plane.
A 29-year-old in a Suburban is not a statistic. Pull the program.
A license that hides status is a ballot argument waiting to happen. Answer Moreno's count.
Fox printed 60,000, Aug. 29, the detainer, and Lamont's insurance line. Argue those nouns.
Kill the drive-only mill. Honor the detainer. A stop sign is not a sanctuary.
