Never Get Used to Illegal Alien Crime. This Family Won’t.
August 13, 2025
Heinous crimes committed by illegal aliens occur so often that it may cause numbed and busy Americans to occasionally gloss over those news accounts (that is, whenever the “mainstream” media actually care enough to report on them). After all, it’s a normal human tendency for familiarity and frequency to breed indifference. The more we are exposed to something the less it seems to capture our attention or impact us. Thus, some may have overlooked recent reports that Raul Luna-Perez, a drunk illegal alien with previous criminal charges allegedly murdered a woman and her child in New Jersey.
This is not a unique story. Sadly it’s an all too common one and for that reason it deserves attention. More importantly, it deserves attention because for the victim’s family — like all illegal alien crime victim families — it is a unique story, indeed an incomprehensively tragic, life-altering one made worse by the fact that it could have been prevented.
On the evening of July 26 in Lakewood, New Jersey, 42-year-old Maria Pleitez was driving her 11-year-old daughter, Dayanara Cortes to a local Wawa for milkshakes in their small Nissan Sentra. Though she couldn’t have known, Luna-Perez, 43, was heading her way in the opposite direction, three times over the legal blood alcohol limit while driving his Dodge Durango 60 miles per hour on the residential street.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/08/13/illegal-alien-dwi-tragedy-nj