Illegal immigrant rescues boy in desert By TERRY TANG, Associated Press writer
Sat Nov 24, 1:27 AM ET



PHOENIX - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.



The 45-year-old woman, who eventually died while awaiting help, had been driving on a U.S. Forest Service road in a remote area just north of the Mexican border when she lost control of her van on a curve on Thanksgiving, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said.

The van vaulted into a canyon and landed 300 feet from the road, he said. The woman, from Rimrock, north of Phoenix, survived the impact but was pinned inside, Estrada said.

Her son, unhurt but disoriented, crawled out to get help and was found about two hours later by Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26, of Magdalena de Kino in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Unable to pull the mother out, he comforted the boy while they waited for help.

The woman died a short time later.

"He stayed with him, told him that everything was going to be all right," Estrada said.

As temperatures dropped, he gave him a jacket, built a bonfire and stayed with him until about 8 a.m. Friday, when hunters passed by and called authorities, Estrada said. The boy was flown to University Medical Center in Tucson as a precaution but appeared unhurt.

"We suspect that they communicated somehow, but we don't know if he knows Spanish or if the gentleman knew English," Estrada said of the boy.

"For a 9-year-old it has to be completely traumatic, being out there alone with his mother dead," Estrada said. "Fortunately for the kid, (Cordova) was there. That was his angel."

Cordova was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents, who were the first to respond to the call for help. He had been trying to walk into the U.S. when he came across the boy.

The boy and his mother were in the area camping, Estrada said. The woman's husband, the boy's father, had died only two months ago. The names of the woman and her son were not being released until relatives were notified.

Cordova likely saved the boy, Estrada said, and his actions should remind people not to quickly characterize illegal immigrants as criminals.

"They do get demonized for a lot of reasons, and they do a lot of good. Obviously this is one example of what an individual can do," he said.

wow that is some lucky ppl who was there at the right time

scatterbrain posted this yesterday in this section.....

Great minds think alike...huh, Muguel?
Kat

I guess the mexican should have let that poor kid die......where is the humanity?

well if kat did it
i was not aware
i just came today with this article in my mind, and i did not check if somebody else posted it before

I like this title walker it fits........

Terry Tang the reporter is a little biased!


Jennifer Talhelm, Arthur Rotstein, and Terry Tang (reporting from... Scottsdale) of the AP offer a superficial, misleading, pro-Democratic Party article called "GOP Shuns Immigration Hardliner in Ariz." The headline is the first part that's wrong in that Graf is opposed to the illegal variety of immigration and wanting to enforce our laws is not a "hardline" position. It continues:

Randy Graf is a tough-on-immigration [a false statement] Republican in a district that is fed up with people pouring illegally across the border and hasn't elected a Democrat to the House in two decades... Yet Graf's national party is turning its back on him, the retiring Republican congressman he wants to succeed has disavowed his candidacy and he's finding trouble getting traction beyond the most secure GOP voters _ and a border militia that's backing him.
Calling the Minuteman Project a "militia" is an attempt to conjure up images of compounds in Idaho and the like. I hadn't seen an MSM source say something similar for a while, but either I haven't been paying attention or they're repurposing their old smears for the 2006 season.

And, prominent GOP members have not "turned their back on him." While the pro-illegal immigration Kolbe has not supported him, McCain and others have, and Hastert will be campaigning for him next week.

As for why the national GOP leaders would "turn their backs on him", Talhelm, Rotstein, and Tang don't try to find out what might really be behind that. Is it because of the stated reason that they think he can't win? Or, is it because they think he might win and if he does he'll cost those companies - GOP donors - that profit from illegal immigration money?

Then, flanked by an AP picture of Gabrielle Giffords, we get this article's "man-on-the-street/voice-of-reason":

Voters such as Sue Malusa, a mother of four from Tucson, think Graf and his supporters go too far. Graf is backed by the Minutemen, self-appointed border-watchers. Malusa will vote for a candidate who supports "a humane and fair way of controlling the border," she said. "That's important."
As detailed in the past many times, anything that allows illegal immigration to continue is not humane, and what Giffords supports will allow illegal immigration to continue. Malusa needs to think with her head and not buy what those who hide behind "compassion" try to sell.

Then, we get to the smears:

Graf made waves last week defending a state lawmaker who endorsed reinstatement of a 1950s federal deportation program called "Operation Wetback" and sent supporters information from a white separatist group... In a candidates' debate, Graf said the lawmaker, state Rep. Russell Pearce, is a friend and they agree on how to control the border.
As previously discussed just recently, the word "reinstatement" is a lie. As for the second smear, he realized the error right away and sent a followup email. Only the most delusional Democratic hack could think that he would have sent that article if he'd read the whole thing or knew about the group involved.

It continues, but it's clear that Jennifer Talhelm, Arthur Rotstein, and Terry Tang of the AP are willing to mislead in order to support either Giffords or illegal immigration. And, it's clear that they aren't willing or able to dig into a story and discover what's really going on.

True, not everything is how it seems!

sighhhhh.....
Kat

different thread kat!

walker!!!!

fanta if u are a nice person.
why are u such a hater with this specific kind of people?

Am I the only one who found the helpers first name of interest too?

probably

he does not hate the people

he hates the crime they commit

Thank you adj,
I couldnt have answered that better myself!!

well i hope i bring forth the same

because anyone that does not understand that
about you is reading your posts with a prejudice view

cause you make that very clear

here is to you

who makes these ****ing laws???? crime they commit???? The ****ing crime is that we allow goverments to rule our planet Earth!!!!

Ya according to the "law"........pffffffft I wonder who here hasnt broken the law once or twice......jay walk? What a ****ing stupid law......

Speeding ticket anyone???? Are we all so innocent here???