{"id":287957,"date":"2016-12-31T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/illegal-immigrant-construction-worker-allegedly-caused-death-of-5-year-old\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:43:02","slug":"illegal-immigrant-construction-worker-allegedly-caused-death-of-5-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/illegal-immigrant-construction-worker-allegedly-caused-death-of-5-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Immigrant Construction Worker Allegedly Caused Death of 5-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A foreign national identified as an Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) \u201cenforcement priority\u201d in 2009 is now facing misdemeanor charges in North Carolina where he allegedly caused the death of a five-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Suarez, 28, had allegedly been driving a large construction truck. Officials stated he left the truck running and failed to set the parking brake, ABC11 <a href=\"http:\/\/abc11.com\/news\/warrant-truck-left-running-before-it-killed-5-year-old\/1676160\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Wednesday night. The truck rolled down a hill and crashed into a house. The crash killed the young boy, William Everett Copeland \u2013 who went by his middle name, Everett.<\/p>\n<p>ICE officials issued an immigration detainer for Suarez Wednesday night after confirming the Mexican national was \u201cunlawfully present\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A statement obtained from ICE officials by the local ABC affiliate revealed that Suarez \u201cis an ICE enforcement priority due to a prior conviction for driving under the influence in 2009. The statement did not reveal if any steps had been taken to apprehend Suarez prior to the crash that killed young Everett.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from ICE stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a request that local law enforcement notify ICE prior to releasing Alejandro Suarez, a Mexican national unlawfully present in the United States, following his arrest December 26, on misdemeanor death by motor vehicle charges out of Orange County, North Carolina. Suarez is an ICE enforcement priority due to a prior conviction for driving under the influence in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>ICE is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/illegal-immigrant-construction-worker-allegedly-caused-death-of-5-year-old\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign national identified as an Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) \u201cenforcement priority\u201d in 2009 is now facing misdemeanor charges in North Carolina where he allegedly caused the death of a five-year-old boy. Alejandro Suarez, 28, had allegedly been driving a large construction truck. Officials stated he left the truck running and failed to set the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}