I missed this news from several months ago and heard it again today as part of an immigration discussion. Bob Clark, the director of the popular holiday film A Christmas Story (as well as a variety of silly or stupid movies), was killed by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk on April 4. I’m not one to call for rounding up all illegal immigrants and kicking them out, but it seems to me basic access points should be enforced. No one here illegally should be allowed to drive, and transportation workers, meaning truck drivers from other countries, should be properly trained on the rules of the road in both countries. Is that not common sense?
I’m sorry about Mr Clark having met an untimely death, of course, but is your commentary’s beef with illegal aliensdriving on our roads or with drunks driving on our roads?
Seems to me that the drunkenness killed Mr Clark, not the alien-ness.
I think the idea here is irresponsible driving, so when the accident and death are the result of someone who possibly should not have been on the road in the first place b/c of his immigration status, the two irresponsibilities of drunkeness and illegal immigration are lumped together.
I doubt I have the last word on this point, if even a decent point.