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 ?”
That preposition?
You DogBots sure don't want to discuss the case.
Cool. Don't tell my wife.
More nonsense from the criminal apologists.
You told him!
You're the first real OBL I've seen on FR. Or, you're a hypocrite.
About half the people on this thread, most likely.
bttt
You consider murder and rape less of a crime than bounty-hunting (which isn't even illegal in this country)? Mexico can give aid to rapists and murderers from our country, but we have to spend our money chasing down someone who did something that isn't even illegal in our country?
If Tancredo hasn't already proven he actually is a xenophobe, this proves it.
Regardless of your stance on the immigration debate, there is zero reason not to cooperate with Mexico if they have a credible reason to think one of our citizens are guilty of a crime on their soil. His 'we should be arresting Mexican drug dealers' can be filed away with 'We shouldn't be fighting in Iraq, we should be in Afghanistan'.
Apparently, Tancredo just doesn't like foreigners much, and thus doesn't want to cooperate with them.
Tancredo will be lucky to get over 5% in any primary.
He won't get over 10% in any. I'll bet you that right now.
No. You?
That's flat out false. You either don't know what you are talking about or you made it up.
Then why do you think it's so important to arrest this guy and send him back, when Mexico is protecting murderers and rapists who have escaped from our country? They actually seem to give these people a special status. Not only that they give Mexican citizens in the U.S. consular cards and let them escape to Mexico if they commit a crime here. So we are going to spend more effort finding a person for Mexico then we will for someone who broke our law? Why should we even do this unless they were willing to send that cop killer back? If this were a murderer, maybe I could see wanting to get rid of him, but he didn't even break a law that is commonly recognized. I've never seen this guys movies or shows, but I think this is bizarre.
Which ones have they sent? Because I've seen numerous cases they won't send back rapists or murderers, including that cop killer. How come the DEA had to go to Mexico and kidnap that guy in 1990. We even kidnapped Morton Sobell (sp?)back when.
He broke the law and jumped bail. I didn't say it was "important", just justified.
BS from the OBL apologists.
Research "The Simpsons" and you will be enlightened.
Provide some proof of STFU.
Travis just released his second novel. What have you done lately besides advocating for criminal alien scunbags?
The Dems don't want any part of this border issue and you know it. They're no better, and open borders fit their plan for the destruction of America.
You're right -- I do know it. But that's not the point. The point is that the Dems love to have talking points, and all the better if they're provided by a pseudo-Republican like Tancredo.
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