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Rep raises alarm after murders by illegals blocked from deportation by home countries
FoxNews.com ^ | August 13, 2012 | William La Jeunesse

Posted on 08/13/2012 12:26:38 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Long after they were ordered out of the country, thousands of criminal aliens from places like China, Cuba, Vietnam and Pakistan remain free in the United States to commit new crimes because their home countries refuse to take them back.

For years, this unique problem percolated under the political radar. But recent crimes by immigrant felons have lawmakers scrambling to punish nations that refuse to repatriate their own citizens. The Obama administration and many Democrats in Congress, however, are blocking punitive legislation, preferring to let the State Department handle the issue diplomatically.

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, is leading the charge in Congress to change the law, pushing to withhold visas to nations that refuse to take back their own.

"I don't know why the State Department seems to take the side of foreign countries over our own American interest in the United States," Poe said, urging the U.S. to tell those countries: "Look, you take these people back or the consequence is going to be no visas for your nation."

Under a 2001 Supreme Court decision, U.S. immigration officials are only permitted to hold someone for six months after their incarceration. So when a home nation refuses to take back their national, the U.S. is required to release them -- no matter what they've done.

The issue recently came to Poe's attention after three especially heinous crimes were committed by men ordered deported years ago.

In June, a judge sentenced 22-year-old Shafiqul Islam, a Bangladeshi national, for the murder of 73-year-old Lois Decker.

"This man was a dangerous criminal," said Hudson New York District Attorney Paul Czajka. "He should not have been in the United States. At the very least, he should have been in detention."

Islam murdered Decker after serving a year for sexually assaulting a child. After his...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; tedpoe
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To: cripplecreek
If they’re going to treat the USA like a dumping ground, none of their citizens should be here.

That perfectly describes Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. They do take back some the criminals we deport back home but they b!tch and moan about these criminals roaming their streets and committing crimes there instead of the USA

21 posted on 08/14/2012 11:29:39 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: Hunton Peck
For years, this unique problem percolated under the political radar

Oh BS. We were screaming about it when the deranged Leftists pushed it through years ago.

They claimed there was nothing they could do, just cut them loose. It was really a road map for amnesty: come into the country illegally, commit a really horrific crime, get off a couple of years later and then you get released right back onto the streets of Los Angeles because El Salvador won't take you.

Could call it the MS-13 relief act.

22 posted on 08/14/2012 11:35:52 AM PDT by Regulator
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