Byron Dorgan: “in this morning's Los Angeles Times there was a story headlined ``Border Pursuit Crash Kills Two, Hurts Thirteen''. The…”

“in this morning's Los Angeles Times there was a story headlined ``Border Pursuit Crash Kills Two, Hurts Thirteen''. The paper reported that 2 women were killed and 13 people were injured--7 of them critically--when a pickup truck full of suspected illegal immigrants overturned, after a pursuit by the Border Patrol. The 15-year-old truck was packed with people huddled under a tarp as it sped west on Interstate 8. That pickup truck apparently smashed into a guardrail and overturned sending bodies tumbling down an embankment. According to the California Highway Patrol, two women were pronounced dead at the scene 20 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Seven victims were taken to local hospitals in critical condition, and six other people with minor to moderate injuries. The issue of high-speed pursuit by law enforcement officials is not new. In fact, on Tuesday of this week, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that they were severely restricting circumstances in which officers could engage in high-speed pursuits, following a series of deadly crashes in that city involving fleeing vehicles.”