President Trump in a Tuesday tweet called on Democrats to get tough on illegal immigration “fast” after an Indianapolis Colts player was struck and killed by an undocumented immigrant who police say may have been driving drunk.
“So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson. This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!,” Trump wrote.
”My prayers and best wishes are with the family of Edwin Jackson, a wonderful young man whose life was so senselessly taken. @Colts,” he continued.
Jackson and another man were standing on the side of the road in Indianapolis early Sunday morning when they were mowed down by Ford F-150 pickup truck, Indiana State Police said. They identified the truck’s driver as Manuel Orrego-Savala, 37, a Guatemalan citizen who is in the United States illegally.
He was deported twice – in 2007 and 2009.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Monday that Orrego-Savala had been convicted of driving drunk in California in 2005.
He also has other “misdemeanor criminal convictions and arrests in California and Indiana,” ICE said in a statement issued Monday.
Jackson, 26, was signed by the Colts in 2016 and played in all 16 games that season.
He sat out the 2017 season on injured reserve.