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 ?”
YES!
STILL LAUGHING!
Good for him. However, that still has nothing to do with his crime.
Right but drug smuggling isn't right?
What a self righteous fool!
"Good luck getting Mexico to send someone back here to face justice."
Especially if the victim was murdered, since that would carry either life in prison or the death penalty. Mexico refuses to send any of our criminals here unless we assure them they won't get life in prison or be executed.
And be sure to spam all the immigration threads with it.LOL.
Could you change the headline to remove that 'g' and 'h' from Chapman? I don't know how that got there.
Correct.
Of course it was illegal, but it doesn't compare to the crap Mexico allows it's people to come here and do
Illegal is illegal...punish both.
It has to do with us extraditing him to Mexico. If Mexico won't send us people who dodge American justice by skipping south of the border, why should we send them people who dodge Mexican justice by skipping north?
Dishonesty will get you nowhere. Link, please.
Yep.
Wonder whether this guy is one of Tancredo's constituents?
Motel owner sues TV bounty hunters
A Colorado Springs motel owner is suing the stars of the television show "Dog the Bounty Hunter," claiming they assaulted him during filming here, and that the episode has hurt his reputation and business.
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They were in Colorado Springs in June 2005, looking for a bail jumper wanted on traffic and other warrants. After being told by an acquaintance he was at the Aztec, they went there, could not find him and got in a confrontation with Barnes, who ordered them to leave the property.
A fight broke out, police were called and Barnes, who had several cuts on his face and head, swelling under his right eye and fractured ribs, twice changed his mind about filing charges, according to police reports.
[. . .]
Barnes' lawsuit claims the bounty hunters intentionally caused a confrontation, and that it is a regular procedure on the show for Duane Chapman's wife, Beth, to provoke people to violence.
"They came out here to make a TV show and if they could get some innocent person to beat up for national TV, that was just frosting on the cake," his attorney, Lloyd Kordick, said Thursday. "The guy wasn't there. They should have left when they were directed to by the owner of the property."
I'll save my sympathy for someone who deserves it.
That dang Bush.
"not so much a lack of resources as it is one of misplaced priorities"
This is the classic problem of government, state and local. Utah claims they don't have the manpower or resources to track and prosecute polygamists who engage in human trafficking of underage girls for sex and welfare fraud. But they have all the manpower in the world to try to catch people bringing beer and fireworks across the state line and run sting operations on gas stations and their own state liquor stores to make sure they're not selling alcohol to minors.
Not that Tancredo would mention that little fact.
No, bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.
Of course illegal aliens should be proseciuted. Where has anyone said otherwise?
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