Virginia Police Arrest Illegal Immigrant in Fatal Crash; ICE Struggles to Track Drunken Drivers

Washington Post reported that: This week’s arrest of an illegal immigrant charged in a fatal crash in Fairfax County is again focusing attention on federal efforts to detain aliens accused of drunken driving. Police charged Carlos Sanchez-Ramos, 33, of Springfield with aggravated involuntary manslaughter, driving while intoxicated and other counts. Authorities say he lost control of his car on Richmond Highway on Monday, striking a Ford Fusion and pushing it into oncoming traffic. The Fusion was struck head on, killing 54-year-old Paul Krause of Fairfax Station. Police say Sanchez-Ramos fled the scene with a 3-year-old boy. He was arrested a short distance away. Sanchez-Ramos entered the country illegally and was deported to Honduras in 2004, but returned to the U.S. between his deportation and 2007, according to immigration authorities. In November 2007, Sanchez-Ramos was arrested in Fairfax County and charged with drunken driving. At the time, Fairfax authorities did not check to see if those arrested were illegal immigrants and no effort was made by immigration authorities to detain or deport him.