Ryan O’Shea was 21 years old, a senior captain on the University of New Haven hockey team, a criminal justice student, and a young man who wanted to wear a badge. He was killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 91 in North Haven, Connecticut, when a pickup came at him the wrong way. The Department of Homeland Security says the driver, Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, 31, is an illegal alien from Mexico who had been sent home before and came back.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin brought O’Shea’s story to a national audience on Saturday. “What an insult to the Angel families,” he said. “Ryan O’Shea, University of New Haven, and he is a 21-year-old hockey captain. He wanted to be a police officer.”
“This individual that was driving in the wrong direction had already been deported twice, and because of Connecticut’s rules… I think it’s Governor Lamont, turned this individual loose onto the streets,” Mullin said. “He was driving in the wrong direction and had a head-on collision with this young man that was full of nothing but hope and opportunities, and now there’s a family mourning because of this illegal.”
“This is the kind of stuff that just makes you sick,” Mullin said. “As a father of six… when you know something like this is preventable, but you have politicians that are creating this opportunity for these illegal activities and creating a safe haven for them, you go, why? Why is protecting our homeland controversial?” ICE put it in four words: “This is our why.”
Mullin did not let the sanctuary crowd hide behind their talking points. “They want to say it’s humane. It’s not humane,” he said. “It’s costing American citizens their lives, and every single person that’s lost their life to an illegal was 100% preventable, and the blood is on the hands of these sanctuary city politicians that’s done this.”
O’Shea’s university plans to retire his jersey. His family deserved a son coming home. Patriots will remember his name, and the officers of DHS and ICE will keep doing the job sanctuary politicians refuse to do, so no other family has to bury a child who should still be here.
