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Tancredo Slams Administration for Arrest of Bounty Hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman
tancredo.house.gov ^ | 09/15/2006 | Carlos Espinosa

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 ?”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; criminal; dogthebountyhunter; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico; mullets; tancredo; tancredopublicitydog; tomtancredo
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To: PRND21; CharlesWayneCT
And there are conservatives who think they did nothing wrong, and that the warrent for their arrest is unjustified?

I don't think conservatives feel they did *nothing* wrong, I think we conservatives feel that Dog should not be handed over to the corrupt nation of Mexico where Dog will not get a fair trial, especially when the nation in question has an utter contempt for US soveriegnty. Conservatives are not "Mexico-firsters".

421 posted on 09/18/2006 8:49:00 AM PDT by Hacksaw (Vincente Fox is the worst attorney general the US has ever had.)
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To: PRND21

Eh...yeah it does. Dog took Lester back to the US to stand trial on rape charges. You are screwed up with your thinking. Mexico won't give up a cop killer and yet we comply with their directive to pick up Dog. The US admin is totally screwed up on this one.


422 posted on 09/18/2006 9:06:15 AM PDT by cmiller623 (Mayor Antonio Villa....or never mind. Los Angeles is doomed!)
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To: Eaker
Travis just released his second novel. What have you done lately besides advocating for criminal alien scunbags?

I was joking, I know he got banned.

Also I have never advocated for criminal alien scunbags.

You gonna donate to Dog's Senate run?
Tancredo/Dog 2012

423 posted on 09/18/2006 10:27:11 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: cmiller623
The US admin is totally screwed up on this one.

Bush hates Dog?

424 posted on 09/18/2006 10:28:38 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: Oberon
That doesn't mean we need to extradite him. What's the compelling reason why we should do so?

It's the law.

425 posted on 09/18/2006 10:30:25 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: Hacksaw
Conservatives are not "Mexico-firsters".

Who said they were? Are Conservatives "Mexico-lasters"?

426 posted on 09/18/2006 10:31:22 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: Eaker
Research "The Simpsons" and you will be enlightened.

Research the law and you will be smarter. ;)

427 posted on 09/18/2006 10:33:00 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: CharlesWayneCT
But how I want the case to turn out is a different question than whether the United States is WRONG to honor a legal and valid request for extradition hearings from a foreign government we have a treaty with. And whether it makes sense to suggest that the President of the United States is personally involved in picking up a 2-bit bounty jumper for the Mexican government because Fox has "something" on him, to name one bizarre conspiracy theory.

And Dog(Chapman) was granted a three year grace period for his jumping bail, and still did nothing to rectify the situation.

428 posted on 09/18/2006 10:36:50 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane
What type of Judge, even a Mexican one would send a man to prison for capturing a rapist.

You know as much about the Mexican justice system as the Pirates do about winning baseball games.

429 posted on 09/18/2006 11:55:17 AM PDT by jmc813 (.)(.)
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To: jmc813
You know as much about the Mexican justice system as the Pirates do about winning baseball games.

You've yet to be even close to correct on this thread.
The Pirates have won the Championship five times.

430 posted on 09/18/2006 1:57:35 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: zbigreddogz

"If Tancredo hasn't already proven he actually is a xenophobe, this proves it."

Yawn, more boring race card tactics. It's not the 1960's anymore.

"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'."

Tancredo supports the war in Iraq.

"That's flat out false. You either don't know what you are talking about or you made it up."

You don't obviously. Mexico doesn't give us any criminals if they may get the death penalty and most recently their supreme court said Mexico can't send us any of our criminals if they will get life in prison (Mexico doesn't allow for life in prison as a sentence for a crime.)


431 posted on 09/18/2006 3:26:12 PM PDT by NapkinUser ("The RNC does not care if a candidate is a conservative or liberal Republican." -Common Tator)
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To: NapkinUser
Yawn, more boring race card tactics. It's not the 1960's anymore.

I notice you didn't even bother to read my entire point. There's a good reason for that: You can't refute it. Tancredo is totally inconsistent and the only thing that seems to be different is one thing is in Mexico and the other is in the US.

And I'm not talking about about race exactly anyway. Xenophobia is related to racism, but it's not the same thing.

Tancredo supports the war in Iraq.

That's totally unrelated, and you know it. You either didn't bother to read my point, are too stupid to understand it, or don't care because you'd just like to spin to make things your way.

The point REMAINS, that saying 'we can't arrest Chapman because we have illegal immigration' is the EXACT same logic as saying 'We can't fight in Iraq because we have a war in Afghanistan'.

Which brings us back to my original point: Tancredo is inconsistent. The only thing that's changed is the fact that Mexico is now involved, and he doesn't seem to like Mexico very much. He applies one standard to Mexico, and another to everything else.

Which means just what I've been saying: Tancredo is a xenophobe.

432 posted on 09/18/2006 9:50:58 PM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz
Which means just what I've been saying: Tancredo is a xenophobe.

Hmmm...

433 posted on 09/19/2006 10:51:39 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21
The Pirates have won the Championship five times.

Girl, get a pro football team in your area before you discuss sports with your better.

434 posted on 09/19/2006 11:39:45 AM PDT by jmc813 (.)(.)
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To: jmc813
Your girl name calling tactic was exposed, remember? Add sexist to your resume.
We have a football team, USC. Though, that has nothing to do with your lack of baseball and politics knowledge.
435 posted on 09/19/2006 11:43:02 AM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21
Your girl name calling tactic was exposed, remember? Add sexist to your resume. We have a football team, USC. Though, that has nothing to do with your lack of baseball and politics knowledge.

Baseball is gay and any league that bases its champion on opinion polls rather than a tournament-style playoff system is flawed. Get a football team and get me a beer in the process.

436 posted on 09/19/2006 11:51:25 AM PDT by jmc813 (.)(.)
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To: jmc813
You sure are mouthy and "gay obsessed" for being politically idiotic.
It suits you.
437 posted on 09/19/2006 12:00:38 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21

Normal people watch football on Sundays. Did you finish my laundry?


438 posted on 09/19/2006 12:02:40 PM PDT by jmc813 (.)(.)
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To: jmc813
I play football on Sunday, Gramps.
And if you think the Dodger game was "gay" last night, you are kookier than Travisty.
439 posted on 09/19/2006 2:02:22 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: Hydroshock

uhhh Dog for prez???? lol


440 posted on 09/19/2006 2:04:17 PM PDT by groovejedi ((Bolton For Prez!!))
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