Eliud Montoya Murder Underscores That Illegal Migration Is Not A “Victimless Crime”

The apologists for unlawful aliens all too usually depict any criticism of mass unlawful migration as a thinly veiled xenophobic assault on all immigrants. Sadly for these shrill activists, actual life furnishes loads of examples exhibiting that mass unlawful migration ceaselessly has a detrimental influence not solely on authorized immigrants however even on unlawful aliens themselves. A working example is the homicide of Eliud Montoya in Georgia 4 years in the past – a homicide that has sadly been largely forgotten (though the Washington Put up revealed one article on it) and that few have discovered from as a result of it didn’t match the narrative of the mainstream media and self-described “pro-immigrant” activists.

Eliud Montoya – a resident of Backyard Metropolis, Georgia – was a authorized immigrant from Mexico and have become a naturalized American citizen in 2009. In accordance with Univision, he labored for a tree reducing service seven days per week to assist his household. Nevertheless, on August 19, 2017, he was gunned down close to his dwelling in retaliation for submitting a criticism with the federal Equal Employment Alternative Fee alleging that the Rangel-Rubio brothers, Juan and Pablo – each unlawful aliens – had been operating a scheme to rent different unlawful aliens on the Wolf Tree service whereas concurrently skimming pay from the unauthorized employees.

The brothers allegedly made $3.5 million over 10 years by fraudulently hiring unlawful aliens – to whom they bought false identities – and stealing from them. A number of months earlier than his August 17, 2017 criticism to the EEOC, Montoya reported the unlawful scheme to the corporate, however, in accordance with WSAV, “that criticism in writing ended up in [Pablo Rangel] Rubio’s arms, the place he learn it out loud, with Montoya within the room, to his crew of employees, a lot of whom had been the unlawful employees Montoya complained about.”

After Montoya escalated his criticism to the federal authorities, Pablo Rangel-Rubio employed one other unlawful alien, Higinio Perez-Bravo, to help his brother in killing Montoya, an act which – in accordance with the sufferer’s mom, Avelina Alvares – “leaves my household with nothing.”

The three unlawful alien criminals had been in the end charged in December 2018 with a plethora of felonies, together with conspiracy to commit homicide for rent, conspiracy to kill a witness, concealing, harboring, and shielding unlawful aliens, and cash laundering. Nevertheless, in February 2020, federal prosecutors notified the protection legal professionals that they won’t search the loss of life penalty for the three males. 

The execution-style
retaliatory killing of Eliud Montoya – a person who immigrated the correct means and
wished to see the rule of legislation enforced – demonstrates that unlawful migration is
usually removed from a “victimless crime.”  Though the Rangel-Rubios are removed from
typical, ruthless criminals profiting from lax immigration legal guidelines are
sadly not distinctive.