Posted on 09/15/2006 1:18:49 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) criticized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a letter to the Justice Department in the wake of media reports yesterday that the U.S. Marshals raided the Hawaii home of Duane “Dog” Chapman at the direction of the Mexican government.
A spokeswoman for the Marshals Office confirmed yesterday that an arrest warrant was signed Wednesday by a federal magistrate in Hawaii at the urging of the administration. Chapman could now be extradited to to face criminal charges for successfully capturing Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta in 2003. Luster, who was wanted in the for rape is now serving a 124-year sentence.
“This Administration routinely tells Congress that they cannot secure our borders and immigration system due to a lack of resources. We are told that the U.S. Attorneys offices in Border States are simply overwhelmed with cases and cannot prosecute all the violations – even serious ones,” said Tancredo.
“Somehow this administration has plenty of time to track down a Mexican drug smuggler and give him immunity so he can testify against our Border Patrol agents,” said Tancredo referring to the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents facing 20 years in prison for wounding a Mexican smuggler during the course of their normal duties earlier this year.
“Americans are apparently supposed to happily accept presence the roughly 100,000 criminal aliens inside our borders – a number that is growing every year – while the Marshals use their resources to track down ‘Dog’ Chapman on orders from a foreign master for successfully brining a convicted rapist to justice.”
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the real problem with this administrations inability to address the failures of U.S. border security policy is not so much a lack of resources as it is one of misplaced priorities,” concluded Tancredo, “I’m beginning to wonder who is in charge of prioritizing assignments at DOJ. Is it this administration – or the one in Mexico City ?”
He(Chapman) could have gone to trial and not cowardly jumped bail.
Do you think dog should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law?
No, Defense Lawyer Boy.
It may be just me, but I have long had a gut feeling that Vicente has something on Bush and has Bush in his back pocket. I can't think of any other reason a Pub president would kowtow so much to those south of the border. And no, I don't accept that trying to win over the Latino vote or some other political reason explains it away.
Murdering a federal cop is a capital offence in the US.
But mexico will not extradite.
But the US will extradite a bounty hunter, who captured a serial rapist.
Then be prepared to be surprised. Tancredo, like Buchanan before him, is a favorite of a relatively small percentage of the Republican electorate.
If you watch his show, you'll see a big pic of W on his bulletin board. I doubt he'll keep it up now.
You would have stayed, tough guy?
I think that you have pretty much hit the nail right on the head. It's about money, pure and simple.
You failed to source a lie to me on this thread. Don't post to me, please.
We should have MORE criminals like Dog. He's one of the good guys.
Yes, read my #150 about another instance I was aware of.
Tancredo slams Administration for [fill in blank]. The man is always slamming the Administration for something or another. If the sun comes up today, he slams the Administration. If it doesn't, he slams the Administration. That's why I tune him out.
What lie?
And if Chapman had been covicted and sent to a Mexican jail for capturing the scumbag Luster, there would have been publicity and Chapman probably would truly be hailed as a hero and released, but Chapman gave the Mexican judicial system an excuse to go after him with his own hypocritical and cowardly deed of jumping bail.
According to their website (incidentally, it's hosted on Tom Tancredo's site), here is their list of legislation. Nothing has passed, and some of it (e.g., HR946) is downright silly. So the caucus, at least, doesn't really count for much in that regard.
To be part of a "caucus" is a way of expressing concern about a given issue, and immigration is certainly worthy of concern. And you're right: there are a number of folks represented ... but the members named are not joined at the hip with Tancredo. Many of them -- unlike Tancredo -- are actually pretty effective legislators.
"That's why I tune him out."
Because he's not a lapdog for your hero, president George W. Bush?
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