Update!

Police are now saying Alianiss Morales is an alias (surprise!) and that they’re still trying to determine who this criminal illegal alien murderer really is. The POS claims to be from Mexico. 

Via Power Line:

You may have heard about an accident in southwestern Minnesota in which a school bus was rammed from the side by a van, killing four school children. After considerable hemming and hawing, it has been confirmed that the woman who was driving the van, Alianiss Morales, is an illegal alien. Morales has been booked on suspicion of criminal vehicular operation.

It’s a tragic story, with elements that, as so often happens, make little sense. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Morales has a "Minnesota identification card" but does not have a driver’s license. I’m not sure what a "Minnesota identification card" is, or how an illegal alien can get one. In 2006, Morales was convicted of driving without a license. It appears that, not only does Morales not have a license, she does not know how to drive a car:

Recalling that incident, Sandra Keding of Montevideo said in an interview Thursday that she had been reading the newspaper in her home that afternoon when she heard gravel flying.

"I stood up from the couch and looked out my window and this car was coming right toward my house," said Keding, 45. "The car hit the curb, came right up on my yard and stopped about 12 feet from the front of my house."

She recalled that Morales was driving and that she was "shaking all over and was a total wreck." When Morales tried to shift the automatic transmission on the blue Dodge Neon, she couldn’t.

"She apparently didn’t know how to drive the car," Keding said. "I had to get in and move it. She acted like she didn’t know how to shift."

Police arrived and ticketed Morales for driving without a Minnesota license.

As a result of that incident, Morales was fined $182. It seems inconceivable that this prosecution could have been carried out without it coming to light that Morales is an illegal alien, but apparently no effort was made to deport her. She remained, it seems, an unguided missile on the state’s highways until her path tragically collided with that of a school bus containing 28 children. Here is how a witness described the school bus accident:

The driver of the truck told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that he saw the van run the stop sign.

"I saw the maroon van run a stop sign, it blew over the railroad tracks and hit the bus, sending it sliding into me," James M. Hancock, 45, of Marshall, told the newspaper from his hospital bed in Sioux Falls, S.D. "The next thing I knew, they were hauling kids out and it was chaos."

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Didn’t we say she was probably an illegal alien when this story first broke? Why yes, yes we did! And didn’t we say it doesn’t matter that she’s a criminal illegal alien murdering invader because bleeding hearts will embrace her as the victim (especially if she is Mexican) and not the four dead kids and their families.

The crash killed brothers Jesse Javens, 13, and Hunter Javens, 9; Reed Stevens, 12; and Emilee Olson, 9. They were among the 28 students on the Lakeview School bus.

At least 14 other people were hurt; many remained hospitalized Thursday.

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