Posted on 10/24/2002 2:31:49 PM PDT by Sabertooth
Michelle Malkin on Sean Hannity radio program in just a few minutes.
Breaking info on DC Sniper case.
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Who let Lee Malvo loose? The mainstream media informed us this week that Lee Malvo, the reportedly "17-year-old" youth charged as a material witness in the sniper investigation along with John Mohammed, is a "Jamaican national." As of this writing (Oct. 24), the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to comment publicly on the exact nature of Malvo's immigration status.
Here are the facts the INS doesn't want you to know: Lee Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami in June 2001. He was apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Wash., in December 2001, but was then let go by the INS district in Seattle in clear violation of federal law and contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers intended, according to my law enforcement sources.
According to INS records I obtained, Malvo was arrested by Border Patrol agents in Bellingham, Wash., on December 19, 2001. Local police called the Border Patrol during an incident involving "some sort of custody dispute" between Malvo's mother, Uma Sceon James, and John Mohammed (the ex-Army soldier with black radical Muslim ties now at the center of the sniper investigation). James admitted that six months earlier, "she and her son were passengers on a cargo ship that was filled with 'illegal asians (sic).' They were all off loaded in the Miami, FL area where she immediately located work at the Red Lobster in Ft. Myers, FL."
From there, Malvo and James traveled to Tacoma, Wash., and ended up in Bellingham. At the time of their arrest, INS records indicate, neither Malvo nor his mother had any documents proving their identities or allowing them "to be or remain in the United States legally." The Border Patrol agents concluded that because she had "no roots or close family ties in the United States, James was likely to abscond." The arresting officer noted that the mother-and-son illegal aliens, Malvo and James, would be "detained at the Seattle Detention facility in Seattle, Washington pending deportation charges."
That's not what happened. About a month after their arrest, Malvo and his mother were set free by the Seattle district INS-contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers had determined should be done. And in clear violation of federal law regarding the removal of illegal alien stowaways. According to the Detention and Deportation Officers' Field Manual:
"Occasionally, you may encounter an alien who claims to be a stowaway, but cannot or will not provide information concerning the name of the vessel of arrival. Prior to April 1, 1997, such aliens could be handled in the same way as any other EWI [entered without inspection] case and placed into removal proceedings. The [Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act], however, directs that stowaways, regardless of when encountered, are to be removed without a hearing.citing section 235(a)(2) of the Act as the authority for the action."
The law is explicit: Illegal alien stowaways are to be detained and deported without hearings. James admitted that she and her son were illegal alien stowaways. Yet, in January 2002, James was released on a $1,500 bond; Malvo was set loose without any bond on his own recognizance. Here is my theory: Somebody at the Seattle INS office leaned on the arresting Border Patrol officers to disregard Malvo and his mother's "stowaway" status-allowing them to run free and allowing the INS to avoid the costs associated with detention and deportation. So, who let Lee Malvo loose? The Seattle INS office referred my call to the Washington, D.C. headquarters. The national headquarters referred calls to the Montgomery County sniper task force. Standard INS operating procedure: Pass the buck and run for cover.
"This makes me sick to my stomach," says Daryl Schermerhorn, vice president of the Northwest regional chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents Border Patrol agents in Washington State. "The INS is not concerned with enforcing immigration law," he told me this week. "It's more concerned with freeing up jails and saving a few bucks than it is with protecting Americans and removing people who don't belong here."
As I document in my book, Invasion, these countless "catch and release" cases have demoralized rank-and-file INS agents and cost scores of American lives-from cops gunned down by fugitive deportees to victims of illegal border-crossing murderers, and now, quite possibly, to the innocents slaughtered in the Washington, D.C., area sniping spree. Eugene Davis, a retired deputy chief Border Patrol agent in Blaine, Wash., told me: "This is another classic example of how our catch and release policy for illegal aliens remains a danger to us all. What's it going to take for the American people to demand that we fix the system?"
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While Ms. Malkin has some definite views regarding illegal immigration (which are not entirely wrong), this particular case does not fit in with the sort of stuff -- country or scenario -- that she describes in the context of terrorist threats.
Michelle's a looker, but she's got an agenda and has in the past not shied away from bending the facts to suit it.
That's not what happened. About a month after their arrest, Malvo and his mother were set free by the Seattle district INS-contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers had determined should be done. And in clear violation of federal law regarding the removal of illegal alien stowaways.
Evidently 9/11 wasn't enough motivation for the Administration to get serious about fixing the INS...
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Looks like I need to retract this part. The rest stands as written.
But doesn't retracting this kinda kick the legs out from under your premise?
Great post.
It's not the rank and file in the INS, it's the leadership who need to be let go. Nothing we say will change them because their heads are thicker than bricks. FIRE THEM!!
Michelle's a looker, but she's got an agenda and has in the past not shied away from bending the facts to suit it.
Which facts has she bent?
Illegals are one the enterprises which facilitate the terrorists' presence here, from transport to false documentation.
I don't know how to take that. If he's that uninformed, no wonder we have border problems. Actually, I don't believe GWB is uninformed.
Her husband is a Freeper in good standing, and quite a nice gent.
Ms. Malkin several months back wrote a particularly bent column about immigration -- and after that one I've stopped paying much attention to her. It's in the archives someplace, and you're free to try to find it. I'm not really inclined to hunt it down.
She and her husband are both Freepers, though she mostly lurks these days. She was already on top of this when the thread posted, but I think he saw it here.
Got any examples?
At the end of the day, the question tonight for our Republic (for any sovereign republic with sovereign national borders deserving control and respect) is:
My own thought: No, It Is Not Sustainable. It Is No Longer Sustainable. It Is Unacceptable.
It's beneath you to sound like a bumper sticker.
So you'd like for us to research and verify your allegations...
Sign me up! bump
Oh, go ahead, pick one...
Michelle Malkin archives...
10/23/02: The shambles in South Dakota
10/18/02: They called him "Little Joe"
10/16/02: The other Beltway shooter
10/11/02: Coloring the sniper news
10/09/02: The rise of religious radio
10/04/02: Lawmakers who love law-breakers
10/02/02: It may be post 9-11, but taxpayers still picking up the tab for anti-American writer's "art"
09/27/02: Remembering an American insurrection
09/25/02: The story of Doug and Mike
09/20/02: Letter from a reservist
09/18/02: Hillary & the Great Clitoridectomy hoax
09/13/02: End sanctuary for illegal immigrants
09/11/02: 9-11: Surrendering the domestic front
09/06/02: Protect America: Stop marrying terrorists!
09/04/02: The Homeland Security bill's poison pill
08/30/02: Olympic boondoggle: Careful what you wish for
08/28/02: The other energy scandal: Ethanol
08/23/02: Crusading to keep kids clueless
08/21/02: Please, President Bush, another soft-on-crime Beltway back-slapper won't do
08/16/02: Bloodshed at the border: Not "Headline News"
08/14/02: Get out your reparations calculator
08/09/02: What's bugging the environmentalists?
08/07/02: The deafening silence about the death of an affirmative action 'hero'
08/02/02: The Wall Street Journal's immigration foul
07/31/02: The friends of James Ujaama
07/26/02: What's good for Daschle …
07/23/02: Protecting squid before sailors
07/19/02: So long, Jack Olsen
07/17/02: Free ride for foreign ship-jumpers
07/14/02: Airline security: One big joke
07/10/02: Deadly diversity, dumb program
07/05/02: The Democrats' bad, bad boy
07/03/02: What about "one nation?"
06/28/02: Another Bay Area abomination
06/21/02: The Forest Service smokescreen
06/19/02: A world without "F's"
06/14/02: "He was a good man"
06/12/02: Meet your fellow "Americans"
06/07/02: Forcing doctors to kill
06/05/02: The media's immigration blinders
05/31/02: Dysfunctional dad of the year
05/29/02: Borders, cyanide, and terrorism
05/24/02: From Flanders Fields to Roberts Ridge
05/22/02: Foreign student tracking fiasco
05/19/02: A Mexican visa-vending scandal
05/15/02: Cigarette taxes and terrorism
05/10/02: Crack down on criminal aliens
05/08/02: A lesson for GOP panderers
05/03/02: The thong reaction
05/01/02: White and Wong profiteers
04/26/02: After the riots: L.A.'s forgotten angels
04/24/02: Terminate this, Arnold
04/19/02: See Dick and Jane weep
04/17/02: Sick: Kiddie suicide bomber chic
04/12/02: MTV's drunken stupor
04/10/02: Battered truth syndrome
04/06/02: On Bataan and Balikatan
04/05/02: Another lesson in Rioting 101
04/01/02: America's sex scandal
03/27/02: The problem with Washington
03/22/02: The Wall Street Journal: Bordering on idiocy
03/20/02: Who is Janis Sposato?
03/08/02: Just wondering
03/06/02: More Clintonian deeds go unpunished
03/01/02: What about the other American al Qaeda hostages?
02/27/02: Paying tribute to Rick Rescorla
02/22/02: Battle of the Beltway buttinskis
02/20/02: Lest we forget
02/15/02: The illegal alien Pander-lympics
02/13/02: The woman who helped launder Al Gore's Buddhist temple money has not served a single day in jail --- and she probably never will
02/08/02: Behind the Environmental Working Group
02/06/02: It's hip to be square
02/01/02: Who's speaking up for life?
01/30/02: Invasion of the anarchists
01/25/02: The charmer and the torturer
01/23/02: Ramsey Clark's bloody resume
01/18/02: What we owe our country
01/16/02: Colin Powell "hooks up" with MTV
01/11/02: The abortion empire strikes back
01/09/02: Cover-up at Columbine
01/04/02: Kick this baby-killer out
01/02/02: Osama's medical welcome mat
Illegal Jamaicans. Illegal Mexicans. Illegal Canadians. Illegal Japanese. All should be researched, tracked down, logged, out-processed and shown the door. It should be a fundamental component to the New American Homeland Security. They are an outrageous insult to:
All resident aliens who followed Federal INS law and reside within the parameters of that law.
And I will no longer take the crying bullshit that: "It can't be done! or It will split up families!"
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