Where Does an Ice Cream Vendor Allegedly Try to Kill a Customer? In The Diversity Zone, That’s Where!

By Nicholas Stix

In Albuquerque, Ice Cream Vendor from Hell Elias Montano Has No Change, and Allegedly Tries to Kill Customer Jose Chavez, Who was Buying Treats for His Family of Seven

Jose Chavez: “He pulls a pocket out of his knife.” Wife Crichelle Chavez: “You just realize you don't know who anyone is. [You sure don’t, Mrs. Chavez; not in The Diversity Zone.] It's a business for children.”

Methinks we will find issues in Elias Montano’s past: Violent crime, and possibly that he is a criminal invader. Of course, given the Chavezes’ casual relationship to the English language, they may well be invaders, too, and with five little anchors, but at least they try to speak English—when they have no choice. (At least KOAT didn’t automatically send a Hispanic reporter to cover a story involving Hispanics.)

 

Police: Knife-Wielding Ice Cream Vendor Attacks Family
KOAT 7 Albuquerque
Posted: 8:23 am MDT September 8, 2011
Updated: 9:38 am MDT September 8, 2011
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque police said they arrested an ice cream man after he tried to attack a customer with a knife.

The incident happened in northeast Albuquerque over the weekend.

The sound of an ice cream truck brings joy to many, but it’s a tune that the Chavez family doesn’t want to hear any time soon.

“I won’t look at an ice cream truck the same way,” father Jose Chavez said.

The family of seven rushed outside on Sunday, got a few ice creams from a truck passing by and then handed over $20 to the man and the woman running the operation. But there was a problem.

“They didn’t have change,” Chavez said.

When the family tried to return the ice creams, a couple of which the kids had unwrapped, police said Elias Montano jumped out of the truck.

“You’re a business and you’re supposed to have change and he jumps out and pulls the knife out of his pocket and comes rushing at me,” Chavez said.

The family got away safely. When police showed up, they arrested Montano for the attempted knife attack.

“My heart just started pounding. I just rounded up the kids and got inside,” mother Crichelle Chavez said. “You just realize you don't know who anyone is. It's a business for children.”

According to the criminal complaint, witnesses backed up Chavez’s story. Montano was booked for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this find.]

Activist Federal Judge Sandbags Alabama Immigration Law: She Needs More Time for Her DOJ/White House Masters to Draft Sophistic Pretext

Alabama Immigration Law Blocked by Federal Judge
By Jay Reeves, AP, August 29, 2011, 4 P.M. ET.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Alabama’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration, ruling Monday that she needed more time to decide whether the law opposed by the Obama administration, church leaders and [N.S.: illegal] immigrant-rights groups is constitutional.

The brief order by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn means the law – which opponents and supporters alike have called the toughest in the nation – won’t take effect as scheduled on Thursday. The ruling was cheered both by Republican leaders who were pleased the judge didn’t gut the law and by opponents who compare it to old Jim Crow-era statutes against racial integration.

Blackburn didn’t address whether the law is constitutional, and she could still let all or parts of the law take effect later. Instead, she said she needed more time to consider lawsuits filed by the Justice Department, private groups and individuals that claim the state is overstepping its bounds.

The judge said she will issue a longer ruling by Sept. 28, and her temporary order will remain in effect until the day after. She heard arguments from the Justice Department and others during a daylong hearing last week.

Similar laws have been passed in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia. Federal judges already have blocked all or parts of the laws in those states.

Among other things, the law would require schools to verify the citizenship status of students, but it wouldn’t prevent illegal immigrants from attending public schools.

The law also would make it a crime to knowingly assist an illegal immigrant by providing them a ride, a job, a place to live or most anything else – a section that church leaders fear would hamper public assistance ministries. It also would allow police to jail suspected illegal immigrants during traffic stops.

Finding a way to curtail public spending that benefits illegal immigrants has been a pet project of Alabama conservatives for years. Census figures released earlier this year show the state’s Hispanic population more than doubled over a decade to 185,602 last year, and supporters of the law contend many of them are in the country illegally.

Isabel Rubio, executive director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, which is among the groups that sued over the law, hopes Blackburn will block it entirely but was happy with the temporary reprieve.

“We are pleased that Judge Blackburn is taking more time to study the case,” she said.

Republican Gov. Robert Bentley said he would continue to defend the law, and GOP leaders in the House and Senate praised Blackburn – a Republican appointee – for taking time to fully consider the law.

“We must remember that today’s ruling is simply the first round in what promises to be a long judicial fight over Alabama’s right to protect its borders,” said House Majority Leader Micky Hammon of Decatur. “To put it in sports terms, it is the first half-inning of the first game of a seven-game World Series.”

While the Obama administration contends the state law conflicts with federal immigration law, state Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, contends the federal government isn’t doing its job enforcing immigration laws. Beason said that he spent years researching immigration law to help write the 70-plus page law, and that it’s unrealistic to expect a judge to go through it all in a few days.

“You just can’t do that,” he said.