June 2025, Sign of the times: a Nicaraguan immigrant saved little girl bitten by a shark, which bit off one of her hands. Thanks to the courage of Luis Alvarez, the little girl survived. Skilled surgeons reattached the little girl's hand, which was bitten off by the shark. Luis Alvarez, the life-saving heroic Nicaraguan immigrant? He's now apparently falling into ICE clutches because he doesn't have a driver's license. This is so wrong. What is to be done? Should Luis Alvarez, the heroic Nicaraguan immigrant, be in danger of deportation? Luis Alvarez is now in Collier County Jail. No sign of any public statement by any Florida elected official. Should this courageous Nicaraguan immigrant be given compassionate relief and release? You tell me. Sadly, our Nation is being divided by demagoguery by Florida Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, President DONALD JOHN TRUMP, Vice President J.D. Vance and other rebarbative Republicans. MAGA Republicans are dividing "us" against them," and as Bill Clinton once said, "they are themming us to death." Mean-spirited mendacious Republicans are busily lying about "liberals" and stigmatizing hard-working immigrants. They are a stench in the nostrils of our Nation. Pray for them. Pray for our Nation to recoover from Trumpery, flummeruy, dupery and nincompoopery. Thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts for speaking out against the vile violent rhetoric emitted by extremists. Is "Make America Great Again" a misleading shibboleth and slogan, which does not distract from the sublime ugliness of anti-immigrant, anti-Gay demagogues? What do you reckon? From Fort Myers News-Press:
Man who rushed in to aid girl bitten in Boca Grande shark attack now facing deportation
From hero to deportee - Man who rushed into the bloody waters off a Boca Grande beach to help a little girl bitten by a shark was arrested for a traffic offense a few days later. He now sits in jail.
One of the men who went into the water off Boca Grande to help after a 9-year-old girl was bitten this month by a shark, Luis Alvarez, was arrested a few days later for driving without a license. He is now in the Collier County Jail facing deportation.
Alvarez, 31, of Lehigh Acres, was stopped about 1:30 a.m. on June 14 while driving on West Main Street in Immokalee without his headlights on. The Collier County Sheriff's Office arrest report says he was driving a gray SUV with a Rhode Island tag.
When asked for his license Alvarez called up a picture of his Employment Authorization Card on his phone. He told the arresting officer in Spanish that he has been in the country for 2 1/2 years and has never had a driver’s license, the report stated.
Alverez was arrested for driving without a license and issued a warning for not having the headlights on.
The arrest report says Alvarez is from Boaco, Nicaragua. Court records indicate he is being held for in the jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is scheduled to go before a judge on July 9.
Leah Lendel sustained severe injuries after she was bitten by a shark a few feet off the beach in Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island. Her hand was nearly severed, but fast action at the scene and an airlift to Tampa General Hospital allowed surgeons to re-attach her hand. She is recovering.
Raynel Lugo, who also helped during the rescue, said in an interview with Fox4 News, which first reported the Alverez arrest, that Alvarez went in the water first to scare the shark and help Lendel's sister.
"He jumped in that area to bring her out when I was assisting Leah," said Lugo in the Fox4 interview. "He went deep underwater, not even caring about the shark. He went really deep. He probably faced the shark."
Body camera footage from a Lee County Sheriff's Office Deputy who responded to the call shows the three men standing next to the water as Leah was being treated by EMS.
Alvarez, through an interpreter, told first responders it looked like about an eight-foot shark. Experts later said it was possibly a bull shark, one of the more aggressive sharks in Florida waters.
Court records indicate Alvarez has no arrest history in Collier County. He was arrested on similar charges four times in Lee County dating back to December 2023. He paid fines or had adjudication withheld by three different judges. In the most recent case the judge issued a D6 suspension on June 23, meaning Alvarez had not paid his fine and was unable to apply for a license.
Alvarez is represented in 2024 by attorney Jose Calvo. He could not be reached for comment.
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The rabid, right wing machine is running full blast. Doesn't matter if they're veterans, workers, heros, vital to the community, they gotta go. They're treating these people like the Nazis treated the Jews...even ecstatic about concentration camps.
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