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Mother of police officer killed by drunk illegal immigrant driver pens furious letter to Obama after authorities failed to deport him following earlier arrests
Raul Silva-Corona drove the wrong way along Arizona highways for 35 miles before smashing into a car driven by Brandon Mendoza, 32
Both men were killed in the fiery crash on May 12
Mendoza's mother has now written a furious letter to President Obama demanding to know why Corona had not been deported
He was an illegal immigrant from Mexico but had been allowed to stay in the U.S. after pleading guilty to criminal conspiracy in 1994 in ColoradoThe mother of an off-duty police officer who was killed by a wrong-way illegal immigrant driver has written a furious letter to President Obama demanding to know why the man was not deported after being convicted of a crime.
Mary Ann Mendoza, who lost her son Sgt. Brandon Mendoza in the horror crash in Mesa, Arizona in May, expressed her anger that the driver, Raul Silva-Corona, was not sent back to Mexico two decades ago after he carried out crimes in Colorado.
'The prosecutors were "lenient" on him and several charges were dismissed,' she wrote in the letter.
'When he was convicted of these crimes (in) 1994 and the government knew he was in the country illegally, why wasn't he deported? Why are any of these illegal criminals in this country?
'I am furious that the Federal Government allowed this criminal to stay in this country and KILL my son!'
Corona was a native of Chihuahua, Mexico, who had entered the United States without permission.
Court records show that he pleaded guilty to a criminal-conspiracy charge in Adams County in 1994 and prosecutors dismissed charges of burglary, assault and leaving an accident scene.
'I have to do something in my son's memory to stop this kind of thing from happening,' she said.
She added that she does not have any problems with law-abiding undocumented immigrants in the country.
The White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Mendoza, 32, had been driving home from work on May 12 when Silva-Corona smashed into him after driving the wrong way along freeways for 35 miles.
Police received 33 911 calls as he sped along the Loop 101 Freeway, down State Route 51 and eventually to the I-10/US 60 interchange before hitting Mendoza on a freeway ramp.
Mendoza, a beloved 13-year veteran of the force, was taken to an area hospital in critical condition and later died.