Prince William County supervisors have no plans to drop their lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security seeking additional information about an illegal immigrant who killed a nun and injured two others in a drunk driving crash.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a report last week details the agency’s handling of Carlos Martinelly-Montano, the illegal immigrant charged with drunken driving in the fatal crash last August. The report was not turned over to the county but to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Prince William County Chairman Corey Stewart said the county still wants to see the supporting documents used to compile the report. Stewart said he was pleased the county’s lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, got the attention of federal officials, but he questioned the timing of the report, which was dated Nov. 24, 2010.
Before releasing the report last week, DHS officials claimed a report on their investigation into the Martinelly-Montano case was not yet complete.
“DHS is either preparing a separate report that is not yet complete, or more disconcerting, mislead the U.S. District Court – as well as Prince William County, Congressman Frank Wolf’s office and Judicial Watch – when they claimed that the report was no complete in February,” Stewart said in a statement.
The report raises more questions than it answered, Stewart said, and the county will continue with its lawsuit.
