Don Rosenberg joins me to talk about illegal immigration.
Don has become an expert through tragedy: the death of his son.
Rosenberg’s son, Drew Rosenberg, was killed by Roberto Galo, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, in 2010. Drew Rosenberg was on his motorcycle in San Francisco, when Galo made a last-second turn and collided with him. Galo continuously ran over Rosenberg’s body in an attempt to flee, before finally jumping out of his car and running away.
Galo was stopped by the San Francisco police months earlier for driving without a license and going the wrong way down a one-way street. Instead of being arrested, Galo was cited and released, according to CBS News.
Don Rosenberg said the charge against Galo was originally vehicular homicide, but was then reduced to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Galo only spent 43 days in jail for killing Drew Rosenberg, and was allowed to continue living in the United States for two more years until he was deported.
“When [Barack] Obama was president we couldn’t even talk to anybody,” Don Rosenberg said. “There was no response whatsoever.”
He also expressed concern over a potential deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and said the government should fix the rest of the immigration system before addressing the issue.
“Our position is you don’t do anything about DACA until you take care of everything else with illegal immigration and I’m very nervous about that one,” Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg discussed the incident which killed his son and how the court even attempted to protect the perpetrator after.
Rosenberg found out that his son’s killer, Robert Galo, entered the country illegally but was able to stay in part due to Temporary Protected Status. As he explained, this TPS policy is almost never temporary and once a country is placed on TPS, it is permanent.
Don graded each of the last three presidents on their immigration policies and he also gave his solutions if someone made him the Homeland Security Secretary.
Finally, he discussed the mainstream media and their treatment of this issue.
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