Posted on 01/16/2017 9:05:48 AM PST by ColdOne
A proposed law that would punish countries that refuse to take back their illegal immigrant criminals is two years too late to save Casey Chadwick, but the Texas congressman behind it figures it’s the least Washington can do.
Chadwick was murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques, an illegal immigrant from Haiti and one of thousands freed onto U.S. streets each year after they serve prison time because their homelands refuse deportation. But a proposal by Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act, would force such countries to take back their citizens or risk losing foreign aid and travel visa privileges.
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All the #winning!!
We already have a law that says that countries that refuse to take back their criminal aliens will have visas to the US cut off. This is a far more powerful tool that Obama refused to enforce.
MAGA
This is just common sense at its most basic level, and it’s sad how refreshed and hopeful I feel upon reading that we might, just might, have people in office now who actually want what is best for THIS country. Not what is best for every other country.
ALL Foreign Aid & Travel Visa privileges.
So this additional law would be just as useful and powerful. I see no problem with many laws that may punish these countries. Either one by themselves may be a deterrent, both both together make it an even more powerful deterrent.
You are absolutely right. Most of these countries only get US visas for their wealthy citizens and denying them visas would but unbearable pressure on their rulers. There would be some backlash from tourism and education here that has succeeded in blocking this type of enforcment.
That is a powerful tool but cutting off aid is very sensible also. Then it all has to be enforced!
Sounds reasonable to me. Get on with it.
Any legislator that votes against this should be deported to the country in stead of the criminal.
We should contract with Mexico to send some of our prisoners into their loving care.
Cost cutting where we can and developing another commodity to export.
I’d go a step further.
No funds to any country who doesn’t suck up to us.
Why do we give money to people who hate us?
We should meet them “half way”...Just release them and forget them...Wherever “half way” is...
Because they give a certain percentage of it back to the US politicians that play the game.
Why are we Borrowing Money to give it away to 3rd world tyrant dictator thugs in the first place??
The problem with trying to pass another law is that the Dems and some GOPe will try to stop or modify it. Let’s use the laws on the books that have already been passed.
I doubt you will get a law passed cutting off aid. And there are many countries that receive no aid from us like China, which refuses to take back their criminal aliens.
In that case no business or education visas might work. Drop them off in north Korea, they’ll figure out a way back.
However, federal law requires the Secretary of State to stop issuing visas to the citizens of any country that refuses to take back its nationals. Though it has rarely been invoked, the threat understandably has the effect of getting countries to cooperate, increasing the likelihood that the alien will be returned, and thereby allowing for detention longer than six months, if necessary. (Threatening to end the issuance of visas right at the outset has resulted in a country taking back its citizens within two months.) As the Supreme Court explained, its holding "does not mean that every alien not removed must be released after six months". It is really a matter of the executive branch showing that a significant likelihood of removable exists in the reasonably foreseeable future.
Specifically the law states:
On being notified by the [DHS Secretary] that the government of a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country after the [DHS Secretary] asks whether the government will accept the alien under this section, the Secretary of State shall order consular officers in that foreign country to discontinue granting immigrant visas or nonimmigrant visas, or both, to citizens, subjects, nationals, and residents of that country until the [DHS Secretary] notifies the Secretary that the country has accepted the alien. (8 U.S.C. § 1253(d); Emphasis added.)
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