Post Great Accomplishment by Illegal Aliens and/or Heinous crimes by Illegal Aliens

[Seymour Flops]

You decide what qualifies a great accomplishment or a heinous crime.

They can be included if they were ever in the country illegally, even if the accomplishment or crime did not occur until after they obtained legal status. However bonus points in the category if the accomplishment was prior to becoming legal, or if the crime occurred after becoming legal, or being released from custody on some kind of "trust me" arrangement.

I'll post one of each to start the ball rolling:

Jose Antonio Vargas

Won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting of the Virginia Tech Shooting, in 2008.

Later he came out as "undocumented" in a documentary he produced about himself. Obama prevented him and hundreds of thousands of others from being deported via an executive order version of the failed DREAM act.

He obtained a visa and thus legal status for the first time in 2025, granted in spite of his once having falsely claimed to be a citizen.

Opinion | I Was an Undocumented Immigrant. I Beg You to See the Nuance in Our Stories.

The situations of undocumented immigrants are varied, and call for a variety of solutions.

www.nytimes.com

Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Pena

The rape-murderers of twelve year old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose body was found on June 17, of 2024. One had been apprehended in March of that year and one in May, just one month before the murder. Both were placed on Alternative to Detention, though there were over two thousand beds available for ICE to detain them.

They met little Jocelyn on Kukendahl Road in my city of Houston (pronounced "kirk-n-doll"), walked with her to a convenience store and convinced her to come with them to a bridge where the double rape and murder took place.

The GPS tracking devices that each was required to wear inexplicably failed to prevent this crime.

House Homeland Analysis: 4 Hard Truths for the Biden Administration About Jocelyn Nungaray’s Murder, Recent Illegal Alien Crime, and America’s Open Borders – Committee on Homeland Security

homeland.house.gov

 

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Stop the race hustling

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

You decide what qualifies a great accomplishment or a heinous crime.

They can be included if they were ever in the country illegally, even if the accomplishment or crime did not occur until after they obtained legal status. However bonus points in the category if the accomplishment was prior to becoming legal, or if the crime occurred after becoming legal, or being released from custody on some kind of "trust me" arrangement.

I'll post one of each to start the ball rolling:

Jose Antonio Vargas

Won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting of the Virginia Tech Shooting, in 2008.

Later he came out as "undocumented" in a documentary he produced about himself. Obama prevented him and hundreds of thousands of others from being deported via an executive order version of the failed DREAM act.

He obtained a visa and thus legal status for the first time in 2025, granted in spite of his once having falsely claimed to be a citizen.

Opinion | I Was an Undocumented Immigrant. I Beg You to See the Nuance in Our Stories.

The situations of undocumented immigrants are varied, and call for a variety of solutions.

www.nytimes.com

Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Pena

The rape-murderers of twelve year old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose body was found on June 17, of 2024. One had been apprehended in March of that year and one in May, just one month before the murder. Both were placed on Alternative to Detention, though there were over two thousand beds available for ICE to detain them.

They met little Jocelyn on Kukendahl Road in my city of Houston (pronounced "kirk-n-doll"), walked with her to a convenience store and convinced her to come with them to a bridge where the double rape and murder took place.

The GPS tracking devices that each was required to wear inexplicably failed to prevent this crime.

House Homeland Analysis: 4 Hard Truths for the Biden Administration About Jocelyn Nungaray’s Murder, Recent Illegal Alien Crime, and America’s Open Borders – Committee on Homeland Security

homeland.house.gov

Man who saved girl says he's illegal immigrant

The man who chased down an alleged child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl is gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights.

www.nbcnews.com

The man who chased down an alleged child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate will be honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.

Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is a Mexican citizen married to an American and has been in the country for four years. But Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive.


Diaz Chacon, who works in Albuquerque as a mechanic, revealed his immigration status to the Spanish-language Univision TV network this week, prompting chatter on the Internet and social networking sites that his case underscored immigrant rights positions in two ongoing political debates.

Undocumented Immigrant Saved Cop’s Life Before He Was Killed

Juan Carlos Salgado punched out window of flaming police car and pulled out an officer. Weeks later, he died on the same road and his family can’t afford to bury him in Mexico.

www.thedailybeast.com

It was before dawn on Christmas Eve when a drunk driver struck the police cruiser on Houston’s far southeast side, flipping the SUV and trapping two officers inside. Leaking gas, it caught fire, the officers desperately trying—and failing—to escape.

Then came Juan Carlos Salgado Villalobos. Hearing the crash from his nearby apartment, he and another man, Oscar Flores, ran toward the burning wreckage and saw the cops inside. Officers Alonzo Reid and John Daily were fighting and screaming for their lives. Salgado punched through a window with his right fist, breaking his hand, and freeing Reid. Daily was freed minutes later, but remains unconscious at a local hospital with burns on more than half of his body, according to police. It will be a struggle to survive, let alone return to the streets that the 25-year-old cop was patrolling the night his life changed forever.

After the officers escaped, Salgado left the scene, leaving Flores to take credit for the pair’s heroic efforts.

https://www.univision.com/univision-news/immigration/the-undocumented-heroes-never-mentioned-by-donald-trump

There have been other news stories about heroics involving undocumented immigrants or people who came to the country as such. On the day of the Boston marathon bombing of 2013, Costa Rican Carlos Arredondo rushed to help the victims just after the explosion of the two bombs. He made a tourniquet for Jeff Bauman, a victim who lost both legs. His picture in a cowboy hat next to Bauman in a wheelchair circulated around the world.
José Gutierrez, the first American soldier killed in combat after the invasion of Iraq, on March 21, 2003, was an orphaned Guatemalan who had entered the U.S. at the age of 22. Damián López Rodríguez, a Mexican from Nogales who crossed the border as an undocumented immigrant with his family, also gave his life fighting in Iraq. He died on April 6, 2007, along with two other soldiers when their Humvee was hit by home-made bomb.
Publicidad
To these we should add the cases of undocumented immigrants who succeed in the arts, sports and business as well as the stories of sacrifice of millions of undocumented workers that are not unusual enough to appear in the news.
But the stories of undocumented immigrants that most interest Trump are those of a few "rotten apples," say pro-immigrant activists.
In the United States, there are more than a million violent crimes per year, according to FBI figures. The vast majority never make headlines, but some right-wing websites and politicians are sure to amplify any crime committed by an undocumented immigrant. Here are several examples from recent days: "Widow tells of the murder of her husband by an illegal immigrant" ( Breitbart); "Suspect in murder in Denver was wanted for possible deportation" ( Fox News); "Illegal formerly deported kills a Desert Storm veteran" ( Infowars).
The sensationalism of news about criminal undocumented immigrants generates the false impression for many that immigrants are to blame for more crimes than people born in the U.S. That despite study after study showing that's simply not true. The incarceration rates of the U.S.-born have been two to five times higher for decades than for immigrants.

7 Famous Undocumented And DACA Immigrants

Undocumented immigrants make up a large, important part of the U.S. population. Here are some of their stories.

www.ilctr.org

Bambadjan Bamba, Actor, 1982 –​

When war broke out in Côte d’Ivoire, Bambadjan Bamba’s family fled political persecution to seek asylum in the United States. Bamba was a child at the time, and it wasn’t until he was graduating high school that he realized that his family had become undocumented. By the time his parents succeeded in their asylum case, Bamba was too old to automatically gain legal status with them. Being granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status gave him stability and the chance to pursue an acting career. Scoring roles in projects like Grey’s Anatomy, Suicide Squad and The Good Place granted him professional success, but Bamba still has no clear path to citizenship or even long-term authorization.

After being cast in the film Black Panther, Bamba was inspired by a storyline in the Black Panther comics in which the hero has to live as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. He decided to come out as undocumented himself. In a video he created with the not-for-profit Define American, founded by fellow undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, Bamba discusses his fear of being deported and losing his career, family and the rest of the life he has built in the United States. Since revealing his legal status, Bamba has given speeches, written op-eds and boldly advocated for the rights of all undocumented people to live freely. He’s been particularly vocal about the challenges facing undocumented Black immigrants, who face disproportionately high rates of arrests and deportation but are often left out of conversations about immigration. In recognition of his work, Bamba has been given the Courageous Advocate Award by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Courageous Luminary award from National Immigration Law Center.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta​

As an undocumented Dominican American boy in the New York City shelter system, Peralta stumbled across a book about Ancient Rome in the shelter library. That chance discovery set him on the path to becoming one of the leading scholars of his generation in “classics,” the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy and history. With the support of his teachers, Peralta earned a full scholarship to study the classics at Princeton, where he graduated as a salutatorian. He followed up this achievement by earning a two-year scholarship to Oxford, but going to Oxford meant risking being turned away when he returned to the U.S. Not even the personal intervention of President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer, eight other congresspeople, the dean of Harvard Law School and a number of other luminaries who took up his case could sway U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services into offering him long-term protections, though he received a temporary waiver that allowed him to attend.

Since establishing himself as a prominent classicist, he’s used his background to enhance his work. His experience as one of very few non-white students in his classes motivated him to fight to diversify the discipline. He has also fought against white supremacists who want to use the classics to establish the foundation of idealized “white culture.” Much of his scholarship focuses on how migration, travel and citizenship are portrayed in classical literature. Peralta also published a memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, sharing his experience with the world.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Writer / Activist, 1989 –​

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio made waves when she “came out” as undocumented shortly before graduating Harvard. Her extraordinary story as the first openly undocumented immigrant to graduate Harvard was shocking, but Villavicencio turned down the immediate offers to pen a memoir. Instead, she decided to share the stories of people less privileged than her, traveling the country to interview farm workers, delivery workers and other undocumented blue-collar workers.

She began writing the morning after the 2016 election. The resulting book, The Undocumented Americans, was recognized by The New York Times for covering “vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature.” Villavicencio has recently received permanent residency but plans on continuing to write and share the stories of undocumented Americans.



..and the beat goes on and on. Illegal immigrants are people just like anyone else. some good, some bad---most just trying to get by~

 

[Seymour Flops]

Man who saved girl says he's illegal immigrant

The man who chased down an alleged child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl is gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights.

www.nbcnews.com

The man who chased down an alleged child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate will be honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.

Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is a Mexican citizen married to an American and has been in the country for four years. But Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive.


Diaz Chacon, who works in Albuquerque as a mechanic, revealed his immigration status to the Spanish-language Univision TV network this week, prompting chatter on the Internet and social networking sites that his case underscored immigrant rights positions in two ongoing political debates.

Undocumented Immigrant Saved Cop’s Life Before He Was Killed

Juan Carlos Salgado punched out window of flaming police car and pulled out an officer. Weeks later, he died on the same road and his family can’t afford to bury him in Mexico.

www.thedailybeast.com

It was before dawn on Christmas Eve when a drunk driver struck the police cruiser on Houston’s far southeast side, flipping the SUV and trapping two officers inside. Leaking gas, it caught fire, the officers desperately trying—and failing—to escape.

Then came Juan Carlos Salgado Villalobos. Hearing the crash from his nearby apartment, he and another man, Oscar Flores, ran toward the burning wreckage and saw the cops inside. Officers Alonzo Reid and John Daily were fighting and screaming for their lives. Salgado punched through a window with his right fist, breaking his hand, and freeing Reid. Daily was freed minutes later, but remains unconscious at a local hospital with burns on more than half of his body, according to police. It will be a struggle to survive, let alone return to the streets that the 25-year-old cop was patrolling the night his life changed forever.

After the officers escaped, Salgado left the scene, leaving Flores to take credit for the pair’s heroic efforts.

https://www.univision.com/univision-news/immigration/the-undocumented-heroes-never-mentioned-by-donald-trump

There have been other news stories about heroics involving undocumented immigrants or people who came to the country as such. On the day of the Boston marathon bombing of 2013, Costa Rican Carlos Arredondo rushed to help the victims just after the explosion of the two bombs. He made a tourniquet for Jeff Bauman, a victim who lost both legs. His picture in a cowboy hat next to Bauman in a wheelchair circulated around the world.
José Gutierrez, the first American soldier killed in combat after the invasion of Iraq, on March 21, 2003, was an orphaned Guatemalan who had entered the U.S. at the age of 22. Damián López Rodríguez, a Mexican from Nogales who crossed the border as an undocumented immigrant with his family, also gave his life fighting in Iraq. He died on April 6, 2007, along with two other soldiers when their Humvee was hit by home-made bomb.
Publicidad
To these we should add the cases of undocumented immigrants who succeed in the arts, sports and business as well as the stories of sacrifice of millions of undocumented workers that are not unusual enough to appear in the news.
But the stories of undocumented immigrants that most interest Trump are those of a few "rotten apples," say pro-immigrant activists.
In the United States, there are more than a million violent crimes per year, according to FBI figures. The vast majority never make headlines, but some right-wing websites and politicians are sure to amplify any crime committed by an undocumented immigrant. Here are several examples from recent days: "Widow tells of the murder of her husband by an illegal immigrant" ( Breitbart); "Suspect in murder in Denver was wanted for possible deportation" ( Fox News); "Illegal formerly deported kills a Desert Storm veteran" ( Infowars).
The sensationalism of news about criminal undocumented immigrants generates the false impression for many that immigrants are to blame for more crimes than people born in the U.S. That despite study after study showing that's simply not true. The incarceration rates of the U.S.-born have been two to five times higher for decades than for immigrants.

7 Famous Undocumented And DACA Immigrants

Undocumented immigrants make up a large, important part of the U.S. population. Here are some of their stories.

www.ilctr.org

Bambadjan Bamba, Actor, 1982 –​

When war broke out in Côte d’Ivoire, Bambadjan Bamba’s family fled political persecution to seek asylum in the United States. Bamba was a child at the time, and it wasn’t until he was graduating high school that he realized that his family had become undocumented. By the time his parents succeeded in their asylum case, Bamba was too old to automatically gain legal status with them. Being granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status gave him stability and the chance to pursue an acting career. Scoring roles in projects like Grey’s Anatomy, Suicide Squad and The Good Place granted him professional success, but Bamba still has no clear path to citizenship or even long-term authorization.

After being cast in the film Black Panther, Bamba was inspired by a storyline in the Black Panther comics in which the hero has to live as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. He decided to come out as undocumented himself. In a video he created with the not-for-profit Define American, founded by fellow undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, Bamba discusses his fear of being deported and losing his career, family and the rest of the life he has built in the United States. Since revealing his legal status, Bamba has given speeches, written op-eds and boldly advocated for the rights of all undocumented people to live freely. He’s been particularly vocal about the challenges facing undocumented Black immigrants, who face disproportionately high rates of arrests and deportation but are often left out of conversations about immigration. In recognition of his work, Bamba has been given the Courageous Advocate Award by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Courageous Luminary award from National Immigration Law Center.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta​

As an undocumented Dominican American boy in the New York City shelter system, Peralta stumbled across a book about Ancient Rome in the shelter library. That chance discovery set him on the path to becoming one of the leading scholars of his generation in “classics,” the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy and history. With the support of his teachers, Peralta earned a full scholarship to study the classics at Princeton, where he graduated as a salutatorian. He followed up this achievement by earning a two-year scholarship to Oxford, but going to Oxford meant risking being turned away when he returned to the U.S. Not even the personal intervention of President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer, eight other congresspeople, the dean of Harvard Law School and a number of other luminaries who took up his case could sway U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services into offering him long-term protections, though he received a temporary waiver that allowed him to attend.

Since establishing himself as a prominent classicist, he’s used his background to enhance his work. His experience as one of very few non-white students in his classes motivated him to fight to diversify the discipline. He has also fought against white supremacists who want to use the classics to establish the foundation of idealized “white culture.” Much of his scholarship focuses on how migration, travel and citizenship are portrayed in classical literature. Peralta also published a memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League, sharing his experience with the world.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Writer / Activist, 1989 –​

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio made waves when she “came out” as undocumented shortly before graduating Harvard. Her extraordinary story as the first openly undocumented immigrant to graduate Harvard was shocking, but Villavicencio turned down the immediate offers to pen a memoir. Instead, she decided to share the stories of people less privileged than her, traveling the country to interview farm workers, delivery workers and other undocumented blue-collar workers.

She began writing the morning after the 2016 election. The resulting book, The Undocumented Americans, was recognized by The New York Times for covering “vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature.” Villavicencio has recently received permanent residency but plans on continuing to write and share the stories of undocumented Americans.



..and the beat goes on and on. Illegal immigrants are people just like anyone else. some good, some bad---most just trying to get by~

Well done!

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Well done!

...of course..we all know your real opinion on the matter eh?

Well done?
It took me 5 minutes~

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

Thread 'Illegal kills young beautiful couple in California car crash..will only serve 1/3 of the 10 year sentence'

Apr 23, 2025

Those softy illegal loving judges fending for the illegals everytime..

Family outraged that illegal immigrant who killed young couple while driving drunk could be set free after serving just a third of 10-year sentence..​

An illegal immigrant convicted of killing a young California couple in a horrific, drunken car crash could be back on the streets this summer after serving a mere fraction of his sentence, leaving the victims’ kin livid.

“It’s disgusting,” Anatoly Varfolomeev, the father of 19-year-old Anya Varfolomeev, who was burned alive with her boyfriend Nicholay...

• Freedomisneverfree
• Replies: 11
• Forum: Immigration/Illegal Immigration

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[Seymour Flops]

...of course..we all know your real opinion on the matter eh?

Well done?
It took me 5 minutes~

Yes, Fleegle. Well done.

You stuck with the question and didn't go off on a tangent, or make an irrelevant childish comment.

I do have an opinion, but I like to test my own opinions. Maybe the great accomplishment of illegal aliens will turn out to overshadow their downsides, is my point.

Let's compare the next two cases:

 

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A Nazi War Criminal who was brought into this country after his record was redacted by the US Government created the Saturn V rocket.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa, yet another "Maryland Man."

Harris County DA seeks death penalty for men accused in 12-year-old Joceyln Nungaray's murder

New details about the suspects charged with killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. What prosecutors just decided about the death penalty.

abc13.com

The Charles County Sheriff's Office in Maryland announced Monday that 24-year-old Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa was charged with murder in the killing of his girlfriend, Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra, 23, who was reported missing on March 31. Rosa's uncle, Rolvin Eduardo Barrera-Barrera, 37, was charged as an accessory.

Deputies said Guerra's body was found on April 17 in a "heavily wooded area" of the forest just outside of Cedarville State Forest in Prince George's County, Maryland. Her body was found buried, the officials added.
She was the mother of two young children, no orphaned. No word on who will be raising them.

Strangely, he and his accomplice had been released with notices to appear before an immigration judge and forgot to come, or something.

According to immigration officials, Barrera-Rosa and Barrera-Barrera were apprehended on April 10, 2019, near El Paso, Texas. They were served notices to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge at the time.

Beautiful lady. Probably not so pretty when they pulled her from the shallow grave her murderers placed her in.

 

[Seymour Flops]

A Nazi War Criminal who was brought into this country after his record was redacted by the US Government created the Saturn V rocket.

Which took nine manned space flights to the moon.

Good one.