Anti-immigration advocates were handed a powerful anecdote to support their case for continuing the immigration crack down after an illegal immigrant shot two police officers in a New York subway station Tuesday evening. Making the story even worse is the fact that the shooter had been deported by immigration officials ten years ago after a drug arrest.
Raul Nunez of the Dominican Republic, was caught Tuesday evening illegally using a student's fare card to enter a subway station when two police officers attempted to arrest him. Nunez resisted arrest, grabbed one of the officers' guns and shot both officers.
Both officers lived, thanks to their bullet proof vests, though Officer Shane Farina, who was shot near his sternum, suffered a
fractured rib and had to undergo surgery. The other officer, Jason Maass, was shot in the
lower back and released from the hospital for minor wounds early Wednesday.
Federal immigration officials are unsure when Nunez reentered the country, but he faces 25 years to life in prison and deportation if convicted on charges of attempted murder and illegal entry in the U.S.