The Tragic, Preventable Death of Alex Tsuji, Age 2: Murdered by an Illegal
Alien
By Lyn Tsuji
June 26, 2007
How can contemptible politicians allow the illegal alien catastrophe to
continue when such criminals continue to murder defenseless and innocent
Americans – angelic, precious children among them - in numbers far
greater
than the death toll in the Iraq War? Read what the mother of one such
victim has to say. Shame on you, Wa****ngton!
The Tragic, Preventable Death of Alex Tsuji, Age 2:
Murdered by an Illegal Alien
By Lyn Tsuji
On November 18, 2006, our life as we knew it came suddenly and tragically
to an end.
I am writing for my son Alex Tsuji, who was born on May 20, 2004 and who
died on December 6, 2006. Our car was hit by a drunk driver, Maricio
Salazar, if this is his true name. He had a .26 blood alcohol content,
three times the legal limit. Mr. Salazar was an illegal immigrant with no
insurance or driver’s license. He was drinking and driving when he ran a
red light, slammed into our minivan, and put Alex, our 2 ½ year old son,
on
life sup****t for 19 days. We were shopping for Thanksgiving, and we wanted
to buy video games to have an all night video game marathon with the kids.
Everyone was very happy that day. Alex picked out his first video game
with
glee. And he spoke his first complete sentence, “Open for me, mama.”
On the first day at the hospital, the doctors said Alex could not be
saved.
We prayed for a miracle for 19 days; and we fought to undo what Mr.
Salazar
had done to him. But doctors, in the US and in Japan, my husband’s
native
country, confirmed our son was not viable. Alex’s spinal cord was
completely transected, and he had a severe brain injury. Alex was in a
coma
and his body could no longer regulate his breathing or any other bodily
function; it was a matter of time and how much suffering, we could not
know. No doctor or medical technology could be found to save him. In the
end, we, his parents, had to name the date and time of Alex’s death.
We begged every day for God to make our life whole and right again.
Alex is a memory now.
We will never see or hold our son again.
Everyday we miss the sound of his laughter and the mischievous smile on
his
face, the pitter and patter of his feet, a bit too large for his age.
We miss his joy over a little ladybug or a fluttering butterfly.
We miss his absolute love, his trust that we would keep his little world
safe.
A child’s love is given wholeheartedly.
We will never see him grow and become his own person.
We are lonely and the days are long without Alex.
Mr. Salazar has taken away a son and a brother.
On that night, the crash should have never happened.
There is no justification.
The laws set in place failed us.
Mr. Salazar broke American laws in how he came to this country.
Mr. Salazar broke American laws in operating a vehicle without a license
and without insurance.
He also broke American laws in driving drunk and in killing my child.
His choices devastated and destroyed our family life.
It took away our security.
It destroyed us financially and emotionally.
We will suffer the loss of our son for the rest of our lives.
Our hearts are broken and there is no mending them.
Mr. Salazar broke 8 counts of the law. He was charged with vehicular
homicide, reckless vehicular homicide, no license, no proof of insurance,
violation of traffic control device, criminal simulation (2 counts)—this
is
in reference to his 2 false identification cards (a false social security
card and a false resident card), and aggravated assault.
On May 1, 2007, we had a media conference at the Tennessee State Capitol
to
share our tragedy with the people of Tennessee. We disagreed with the plea
bargain that was offered to Mr. Salazar which would make him eligible for
parole in less than three years, and we asked the government officials of
Tennessee to enforce its laws to prevent this from happening to other
families.
This tragedy did not just happen. It resulted from a series of choices by
Mr. Salazar and by the American government’s failure to enforce its own
laws set in place to protect law-abiding citizens. This travesty caused
this great tragedy and utter devastation to our family.
Everyone in America is a potential victim.
On May 8, 2007, Mr. Salazar accepted the plea bargain. We tracked his
parole date which is set sometime in 2009. According to the police
investigators they did not know Mr. Salazar’s birth name or his birth
place; they went by his name on the two forged do***ents. If we fail to
convince the parole board to keep Mr. Salazar in prison, we are sure he
will become a ghost to us, and the death of Alex will become nothing more
than another grim statistic.
My family and I have become victims, first of the American government’s
failures, second of Salazar, and now of the legal system which,
disgracefully, has made him eligible for parole in less than 3 years after
killing a defenseless and innocent two-year-old, our son. Alex never made
it to his 3rd birthday.
Justice will hold true only if those who break the law have something to
lose.
But after all is said and done, we – Alex’s family – lose, and with
all
these failures, the American people are losing as well.
And on our weakest days, we have only God to turn to.
Behind the dim unkown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
Watch above his own
--James Russell Lowell
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Lyn Tsuji is the mother of Alex Tsuji, killed by an illegal alien who was
driving drunk, on December 6, 2006, when Alex was only two years old.
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EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald
www.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
www.PredatoryAliens.com
www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org
www.DayLaborers.org
www.Alipac.us
www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.SaveOurState.org
www.EscapingJustice.com
www.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org
See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.ImmigrationCounters.com
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"**** La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")
-- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded
organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the
USA
(Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
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“How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico”
By John Dillin
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Excerpt:
“General Eisenhower ... quoted a re****t in The New York Times,
highlighting one paragraph that said: ‘The rise in illegal
border-crossing
by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
Government ..."
“Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
office.
“America ‘was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very
large
scale,’ Mr. Brownell said. ‘When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.’"
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Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:
www.DeputyDavidMarch.com
www.KrisEggle.org
"Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in
criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent Social Security
numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent
some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens
on
a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status. In
addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also
prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's federal prison
population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
aliens."
-- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
"“All great truths begin as heresies.”
-- Former Democrat Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, official of
Defend Colorado Now, a movement opposed to illegal immigration
and public services for illegal aliens
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