http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/20577/Huckabee-adopts-new-tone-on-immigration/

And will continue to work with and support Numbers long after Huck fades from view.

I stand with Arlington Minority on this one. Numbers provides a great service overall.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/regional/story.aspx?storyid=68864

I’ve seen advertisements for these non-government ID cards posted in local check-cash stores.

They look like DMV cards, very much like these:

http://www.newidcards.com/VA.html

What is the story on these things? Are they legal? Does anyone know?

http://origin.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=499284

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/21/illegal-alien-bus-driver-arrested-in-minnesota-school-tragedy/

http://www.wwmt.com/news/condition_1347049___article_pluck.html/critical_hit.html

4 children in Minnesota, along with multiple injuries.

1 child in Michigan.

And Ted Kennedy is belting out a Spanish tune on the radio …

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/02/019854.php

Note that it is not 100% sure that Morales was the same woman involved in a crash a couple of years ago. Powerline notes dryly that the MN identification card entitles her to vote there.

Marshall, MN — Police officers wheeled a woman who calls herself Alianiss Nunez Morales, 23, of Minneota, into court in a wheelchair Friday to face four charges of criminal vehicular homicide.

The judge set her bail at $200,000.

She was injured in the crash, but released from the hospital on Thursday.

She apparently speaks very little, if any, English, and the judge took a break shortly after noon because Morales needed help understanding some of the court proceedings.

She’s accused of driving the van which crashed into a Cottonwood school bus on Tuesday, killing four children and injuring several others.

Authorities revealed Friday they do not believe Morales is her real name.

Immigration officials also say they believe she is in the country illegally, but they did not elaborate.

All four criminal vehicular homicide charges are felonies and each charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. She was also charged with a stop sign violation, and driving with no driver’s license. Those violations are misdemeanors.

The criminal charges also shed more on light on what happened.

Bus driver Dennis Devereaux told investigators he was going roughly 50 miles an hour down Highway 23, and saw the mini-van approaching. He said it was obvious to him the van would not be able to stop at the intersection.

He said he believed the van “went airborne” over the railroad tracks near the intersection, and slammed into the bus.

Devereaux told police there was no time for him to react.

Several other witnesses also told police they saw the van run the stop sign.

But Morales, through an interpreter, told investigators she stopped at the stop sign, and that the bus hit her when she started into the intersection.

She claimed she was on her way to work in Cottonwood, that she had only worked there a month, and that she had never been on Highway 24 before.

She claimed she could not remember her address in Minneota, but said she lived in a trailer with a boyfriend.

KARE-11 News learned more details Thursday about Morales’ arrest and ticket for driving without a license in 2006.

That incident happened in Montevideo. The woman who reported her at the time said it did not appear Morales knew how to drive at all.

Morales’ car had wound up in the woman’s yard, and Morales did not appear to know how to shift the car’s transmission.

Montevideo police wrote Morales a ticket for driving without a license.

More than a thousand people gathered in a high school gymnasium Thursday night for a memorial service to remember the four students killed in the crash.

Mourners who entered Lakeview School, which all four attended, were greeted by photos of the victims and bouquets of flowers.

“The first thing you noticed when you walked into the gym was there were kids hugging each other, just holding each other in lengthy embraces,” said Rae Kruger, a reporter from the Marshall Independent who attended.

Kruger said there were stacks of Kleenex boxes at the end of every row of seats in the gymnasium.

Members of the Javens and Olson families were at the service, she said. Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state’s two U.S. senators attended, and Pawlenty offered condolences to the families on behalf of the entire state.

“The arms of Minnesota embrace you tonight,” Pawlenty said.

The crash killed brothers Jesse Javens, 13, and Hunter Javens, 9, both of Cottonwood; Reed Stevens, 12, of Marshall; and Emilee Olson, 9, of Cottonwood. They were among the 28 students on the Lakeview School bus. At least 14 other people were hurt.

Classes had resumed Thursday with plenty of grief counselors on hand, Lakeview superintendent Sheldon Johnson said. Attendance numbers were at normal levels, and students seemed to be coping, he said.

“It’s difficult, but they’re probably handling it better than anyone would have thought,” Johnson said. “We’re trying to keep things as normal as possible and still be sensitive to the needs of the children.”

But KARE-11 News learned Thursday that Devereaux, the bus driver, rode the bus Thursday to be with the kids on his route. Many students rode the bus to school but some had parents drive them or accompany them on the bus.

Terry Lange, the ex-brother-in-law of the Javens brothers’ father, Marty, said Morales’ arrest helps answer some of the questions that have lingered after the crash.

“It really doesn’t change anything, but it makes a little more sense with everything going on here,” Lange said. “I feel bad for the van driver too. It’s just a terrible situation all the way around.”

Hancock and five of the injured children remained at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls. One child was in serious condition, Gleason said. Mary Maertens, CEO of Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center, said the child and adult who had been there were discharged Thursday. One student remained at Mayo Clinic in fair condition, she said.

Lakeview has about 585 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, serving Cottonwood and the nearby town of Wood Lake. The area is about 140 miles west of Minneapolis.