Deaf, Illegal Alien Charged With Murder

There's a big illegal immigration problem here in the United States. Anyone who enters the United States without proper documentations (or none at all) is breaking U.S. laws. They are in essence serious law breakers. These includes deaf illegal aliens as well and all illegal immigrants should be reported and deported back to where they came from.

Now, with this story we have Oswaldo Martinez, 36, who is charged with capital murder, rape, robbery and forcible sodomy in connection with the murder of a 16 year old girl, Brittany Binger, in January 2005.

Martinez, a deaf-mute illegal immigrant, has been learning American sign language at Western State since late 2005.

Experts have said that at the time Martinez was arrested in February 2005, he could not read, write or use sign language.

During a competency hearing in May, it was revealed that after a year and a half of instruction, Martinez could effectively communicate with doctors and staff at Western State.

Williamsburg-James City Circuit Judge Samuel Powell III ruled that during the next six months, Martinez's attorneys, Tim Clancy and Beau Webb, begin meeting with him in an effort to determine his ability to aid in his own defense. The move to the regional jail will make those meetings possible.

What makes this so unique is that Martinez lacked any effective communication to offer his own defense after investigations found his DNA in the form of scraped skin under Brittany's fingernails when she tried to fight him off. The culpability is there with the DNA evidence to charge Martinez with murder and more.

These things shouldn't happen. There are millions of legal immigrants who came to America using proper and legal means to enter and eventually become American citizens in Newark, NJ. Americans deserved to be protected from illegal aliens who break laws or committ murder against American citizens.

So, how many deaf illegal immigrants are out there in the United States? If there are an estimated 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States, I'd say the number of illegal deaf immigrants may be around 60,000 based on my own earlier population study. It could be much more than that since there are no real credible studies in this area as far as I know determining the number of deaf illegal immigrants in the U.S. Yet we do hear stories from time to time on how illegal deaf immigrants were captured like the ones reported here, here and especially here.

Regardless of how they got there, illegal immigrants simply need to be deported back where they came from. From the countries where these deaf illegal immigrants came from it is that country's responsibility to address the plight of these deaf individuals rather than have them foisted upon American soils because they don't want to address the problem. There are ways where countries can collaborate to help fund or offer expertise to help make lives better in the country from which those deaf illegal immigrants came from.

As a side note, Michelle Malkin is active in this area reporting on our illegal immigrants problem in the United States and how they have murdered and killed American citizens. Her latest story is about an illegal immigrant in connection with the triple slayings of three young people.