The man accused of drinking four beers before crashing his car into an SUV and injuring several children in Texas last week is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, federal immigration officials told The Daily Wire. 

Dallas police arrested Jose Luis Castro Alvarado, 20, on Saturday after they said he ran a red light at around 10:00 p.m. and crashed into an SUV, seriously injuring six children. According to police, Alvarado allegedly admitted to police that he had consumed two beers before the crash, but a passenger in his vehicle said they each drank four beers just before the crash. 

One of the children injured, a 4-year-old child who was thrown out of the vehicle, is in critical condition, according to Fox 4. He suffered multiple fractures and a lacerated liver. An injured 5-year-old required jaw surgery. 

Alvarado, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with two counts of collision involving injury, two counts of collision involving serious bodily injury, and two counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle. He is currently being held at the Kays Tower detention center in Dallas.

A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Daily Wire that Alvarado illegally entered the United States around September 22, 2021, near La Joya, Texas, which is about 500 miles south of Dallas. ICE said he entered “without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration officer.”

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Alvarado cannot be released from prison because ICE placed a detainer on him after Dallas police took him into custody. 

Police said that Alvarado denied being under the influence of alcohol but that his eyes were bloodshot when they arrested him, according to an affidavit on the incident obtained by Fox 4. 

After the accident, investigators said that Alvarado ran from the scene, and a police K-9 located him hiding in the bushes in a nearby neighborhood. Police said he did not stop to check on the victims of the crash before fleeing. 

Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled House passed a measure that would deport non-citizens convicted of DUIs, though the legislation stalled out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Comedy actor Will Ferrell said he “made it clear” to Netflix that he wanted his newly released pro-transgender documentary “Will & Harper” available for streaming prior to the 2024 election.

The 57-year-old stars in the project alongside his friend, former “SNL” head writer Harper Steele, who identifies as transgender. “When Will Ferrell’s good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self,” the official Netflix description says. 

Now, the “Anchorman” star acknowledges the film’s release date was very intentional.

“When we sat down with Netflix we made it clear that we wanted this out before the election,” Ferrell told Variety at the film’s premiere. “We wanted it to have enough runway for people to get to see it and hopefully start having important discussions in their living rooms.”

Steele chimed in, saying that many “parents and kids” are excited to see the movie.

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“We’ve heard from people who say they can’t wait to see this with friends and family who maybe don’t share the same viewpoint and they’re looking forward to watching it all together,” Ferrell continued. “Hopefully it could slowly chip away at some of that.”

Ferrell recently told The Independent that “transphobia” exists because “we fear what we don’t know.”

“But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male. I don’t know why Harper is threatening to me,” Ferrell said. 

“It’s so strange to me, because Harper is finally… her. She’s finally who she was always meant to be. Whether or not you can ultimately wrap your head around that, why would you care if somebody’s happy? Why is that threatening to you? If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself.”

“There is hatred out there,” the actor said. “It’s very real, and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations.”

The film’s director Josh Greenbaum told the outlet that the film wasn’t necessarily meant to be political.

“We were all aware that it would be received as a political film and brought into the political conversation,” Greenbaum told the outlet. “But at its core it’s a very pure, simple story of two friends.”