Posted on 10/01/2005 3:14:11 PM PDT by radar101
A federal District Court Judge has ruled that the privacy rights of illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes in this country are more important than the public’s right to know if the government is properly enforcing a key immigration law.
Amazing as the ruling itself may be, what is even more stunning is the fact that U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard J. Leon was affirming the Bush administration’s position in the case. President Bush nominated Leon in 2001 and the Senate confirmed him in February 2002.
Leon’s Sept. 27 ruling was in response to an appeal by Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau of the Justice Department’s refusal to make public information and data about thousands of aliens convicted of serious crimes in virtually every state.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are required by federal law to escort these criminals out of the country as soon as they are released from jail, but a 2002 investigation by Cox found hundreds who were released from Georgia jails but not deported.
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WWWWhhhhaaaatttttt????? ACLU must be laughing their a**es off on this one.
Not surprised. 3.5 million will jump the border this year,
and nothing done about it.
Since when are criminal convictions NOT public information? I don't understand.
It's time for this Administration to start putting our interests ahead of those of the illegal aliens.
I'm sick of this.
Michael Savage has been right about this.
Michael Savage is indeed right about this.
And I also don't understand why criminal records aren't public for illegal aliens; they are with "regular" criminals.
Indeed.
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