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400,000 AT LARGE U.S. Has Freed Foreign Murderers Under Loophole All 2 messages in topic - view as tree johnny@. Apr 14, 7:02 pm show options Newsgroups: alt.politics.immigration From: "johnny@." - Find messages by this author Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:02:37 -0500 Local: Thurs,Apr 14 2005 7:02 pm Subject: U.S. Has Freed Foreign Murderers Under Loophole Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse The United States has freed numerous illegal aliens into the community who are dangerous murderers, rapists and child molesters under a legal loophole created by Supreme Court decisions, the Bush administration said on Thursday. In testimony to a Senate subcommittee, a senior Justice Department official said Congress should urgently pass legislation to close the loopholes, which have already resulted in the release of several extremely violent offenders, with others scheduled for release soon. "Among them are vicious criminals who have murdered their wives, molested young children and brutally attacked their enemies," Jonathan Cohn, a deputy assistant attorney general, told a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The loophole arose after the Supreme Court ruled in two cases, one in 2001 and the other this year, that criminal aliens could only be held in prison for six months pending deportation after completing their criminal sentences. If the individual‘s home country refused to accept him within that time, the criminal alien must be released. The administration wants Congress to pass a law allowing such people to be held indefinitely. Among those being freed are over 700 people who came to the United States from Cuba in 1980 as part of the so-called Mariel boatlift. By mid-February, 150 have already been released because Cuba will not accept them back. Cohn said they include Antonio Valenti-Cordova, a convicted murderer with a history of mental illness who has the delusional belief that the FBI instructed him to strangle his wife. Also, Elio Riveron-Aguilera who has committed aggravated criminal sexual assault, rape, robbery and kidnapping. 400,000 AT LARGE Victor Cerda of the Department of Homeland Security testified that in fiscal year 2004, his division removed 84,000 criminal aliens from the United States. However, an estimated 400,000 were still at large. "Under Operation Predator, ICE There are an estimated 10-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Their presence, and the potential security threat they represent, is fueling increasing political anger, especially among Republicans. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said there was no political will in the administration to control the U.S. border with Mexico, adding that President Bush "just doesn‘t get it." In a hearing Wednesday before a House of Representatives subcommittee, ICE assistant secretary Michael Garcia said that since late February, his agency had arrested more than 150 members of the Central American MS-13 gang for immigration violations. Over half had previous arrest and conviction records for crimes such as robbery, assault, rape and murder. One, Lester Rivera-Paz, was wanted in Honduras for involvement in a massacre of 28 bus passengers last December. He had already been deported once from the United States but had illegally reentered the country. http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-558039.html http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.immigration/browse_thread/thread/cb218e039e8015ad/274b1c6a86dc183f?q=cuba+and++MS-13+gang&rnum=2&hl=en#274b1c6a86dc183f

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"Under Operation Predator, ICE There are an estimated 10-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

Their presence, and the potential security threat they represent, is fueling increasing political anger, especially among Republicans.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said there was no political will in the administration to control the U.S. border with Mexico, adding that President Bush "just doesn‘t get it."

The United States has freed numerous illegal aliens into the community who are dangerous murderers, rapists and child molesters under a legal loophole created by Supreme Court decisions..

Well now, isn't that special?