New DHS immigration rules: Drunk drivers, sexabusers, drug dealers, gun offenders...

The Department of Homeland Security has just released new "Policies for the Apprehension, Detention, and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants." Designed to fill in the details after President Obama's announcement that at least four million currently illegal immigrants will be given work permits, Social Security numbers and protection from deportation, the DHS guidelines are instructions for the nation's immigration and border security officers as they administer the president's directive.

The new priorities are striking. On the tough side, the president wants U.S. immigration authorities to go after terrorists, felons, and new illegal border crossers. On the not-so-tough side, the administration views convicted drunk drivers, sex abusers, drug dealers, and gun offenders as second-level enforcement priorities. An illegal immigrant could spend up to a year in prison for a violent crime and still not be a top removal priority for the Obama administration.

New DHS immigration rules: Drunk drivers, sex abusers, drug dealers, gun offenders not top deportation priorities.

This is beyond horrible. The new standards aow for anyone convicted of any crime to claim asylum and escape deportation.

ANY CRIME.

This includes terrorism drug trafficking murder bank robbery.....everything.

And all ne needs to do to get asylum as of last year is claim transgendered or homosexual status.....

Kill a someone while carrying out a drug deal for your street gang? Do your prison time and then stick around because you have asylum.

And it applies to: Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers Democrats, Liberals (my addition) and Methodists.

Thanks to Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles.

“...the DHS guidelines are instructions for the nation’s immigration and border security officers as they administer the president’s directive.”
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Those “immigration and border security officers” should be advised that it is unlawful to carry out unlawful/unconstitutional orders. Using the defense that “I was just doing what my superior ordered me to do” is not sufficient. Remember the Nuremberg trials.

“If you get a DUI, Canada won’t even let you in.”

Not without a minister’s letter of rehabilitation, or something to that effect, anyway. DUI is a criminal offence in Canada.

Let me tell you my story, and I don’t expect to get a lot of sympathy here, but anyway...

Way back in ‘89 I got myself busted for a minor marijuana possession charge. Stupidly I pleaded guilty. Fast forward to 2005 - although I had gotten a pardon in Canada, the INS/CBP/DHS had become aware of my conviction. So I had to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility (strangely, if my conviction had been for, say, assault, I would have been OK to enter). I forget what that cost back then, a few hundred, I think, but when I got it, it was only good for one year, after about 18 months of processing time.

I started the process again, about 6 months later, by which time the cost had gone about. Processing was faster this time, and I got a 2-year waiver. 2 years later I applied again, and got a 3-year. Finally the last time around I applied again (fee was up to USD$560, now) and got a 5-year waiver.

About the waiver application process: it requires, among other things, a record of the original conviction (sealed in my case), a current criminal record check from Canada, letters of reference, employment letters, a letter from my doctor attesting that I’m not a drug addict, and then it all went off for an FBI background check. And all this has to be provided for every application. And I still have to go inside for additional processing almost every time I enter the US (unless I still have a valid I-94 “permit” to enter for 6 months).

So needless to say it really burns me to see that the US government apparently considers defending its southern border to be of little importance, and that convicted illegal alien drug dealers (and sex offenders, etc) roaming at free in the US are a low priority.

Those “immigration and border security officers” should be advised that it is unlawful to carry out unlawful/unconstitutional orders.

It does not matter what they do. If they make an arrest and send the alien to a detention center for removal proceedings the center will just release them and give them a court date in 2029.

Its been going on for years but now it will be accelerated.

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