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Manuel Orrego-Savala: Immigration Status and Jeffrey Monroe

manuel orrego-savala: Curry criticized Trump and others who cited the case as part of the nation's immigration debate, noting that two innocent men lost their lives in this horrible incident, according to The Chronicle Herald. Curry filed felony charges earlier in the day against the suspect, Manuel Orrego-Savala, a citizen of Guatemala who has twice been deported from the U.S. Orrego-Savala is accused of driving the pickup truck that hit Jackson and his Uber driver, 54-year-old Jeffrey Monroe, early Sunday in Indianapolis. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said his office would vigorously prosecute the case regardless of the suspect's immigration status. We are disheartened that ghoulish and inappropriate public commentary has politicized this tragedy, Curry, a Democrat, said in a statement. We will simply seek justice on behalf of the families of those two victims. Much of such commentary, including tweets by the president, fails to acknowledge that both Edwin Jackson and Jeffrey Monroe lost their lives on Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.