It's become a stereotype that liberal parents will make public statements decrying "xenophobia" and "racism" every time a right-winger notices that illegals keep murdering people.
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It's heartbreaking in so many ways to hear this from a father whose pain and suffering is self-evident:
Nathan Clark, of Springfield, denounced the Republican presidential ticket and asked Trump and Vance to apologize in an impassioned speech before the City Commission after Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, mentioned the death of Clark's son Aiden as a reason to oppose Haitian immigration.
'Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible for any political purpose,' Clark said during the commission's public comment period, according to a livestream of the meeting.
'This needs to stop now,' he added. 'I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies.'
That's only half of what Mr. Clark said. His full remarks were, his grief not withstanding, rather indefensible:
I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. And I bet you never thought anyone would ever say something so blunt.
But if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone.
Leaving aside the ugly politics of all of this, it simply remains the case that young Aiden Clark was not killed by "a 60-year-old white man."
He was killed by a Haitian immigrant — one who was driving illegally at the time of the fatal crash.
Jurors took about one hour Wednesday [May 1] to deliberate before reaching guilty verdicts in the trial of a minivan driver who hit a school bus, killing one student and injuring dozens of others.
[Hermanio Joseph] testified through an interpreter that he has a Mexican driver's license and Ohio ID card, but no Ohio driver's license. ...
Joseph testified he has temporary protected status and did not get an Ohio driver's license because he did not have the necessary documents.
"Not having the necessary documents," of course, is just another way of saying, "It was illegal for me to be driving but I did it anyway."
As one prosecutor put it:
He didn't have a valid license and he tells you on the stand why ... He had no license but he disregarded that. He drove anyways.
This isn't a lone incident. Horror stories of traffic accidents keep coming out of Springfield, as documented in our story here. I will include this testimony of a women who says her mother-in-law was killed in a similar crash:
A father grieving over the loss of his son deserves our sympathy and understanding. But he doesn't get to set the narrative on something like this. These crimes would not be happening if the border laws were enforced. This boy would still be alive.
And wishing that your son was killed by a white conservative man rather than a Haitian migrant won't change that.
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