No, the article just said that one did. I can tell you from experience that MANY come here and then apply for asylum.
Then again, I'm not surprised that they plowed into the side of an 18-wheeler. They had probably never driven a car back in Haiti (lots of mopeds on the roads there, just like in the DR). They come here, somehow get a license (I'm not going to go into the numerous ways they scam the system) and try driving on roadways at speeds they never did back in Haiti.
Well, could you have coped with the scenario I outlined? I've had to do something similar, and it wasn't easy at all. It wasn't them who did the plowing; it was the 18-wheeler that suddenly turned across their bow. The recommended safe following distance for a semi-trailer is 300 feet. That would not apply in an adjacent lane, so the poor Haitians were too close for safety once the truck barged across their lane. As anyone would be. Since when is death the penalty for doing nothing wrong?
No, the article just said that one did. I can tell you from experience that MANY come here and then apply for asylum.
Then again, I'm not surprised that they plowed into the side of an 18-wheeler. They had probably never driven a car back in Haiti (lots of mopeds on the roads there, just like in the DR). They come here, somehow get a license (I'm not going to go into the numerous ways they scam the system) and try driving on roadways at speeds they never did back in Haiti.
Yep, most of us would have slowed down when seeing what was happening.
Well, could you have coped with the scenario I outlined? I've had to do something similar, and it wasn't easy at all. It wasn't them who did the plowing; it was the 18-wheeler that suddenly turned across their bow. The recommended safe following distance for a semi-trailer is 300 feet. That would not apply in an adjacent lane, so the poor Haitians were too close for safety once the truck barged across their lane. As anyone would be. Since when is death the penalty for doing nothing wrong?