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, Im beginning to wonder who is in charge of prioritizing assignments at DOJ. Is it this administration or the one in Mexico City ?
Let's make a deal. We trade 20 million Mexican illegals for 1 Dog..............
Aside from the fact tht he jumped out on day one when the threats of indictment were discussed with regard to Tom DeLay. Was calling for DeLay to resign before he was even charged.
No, it has to do with illegal bounty hunting.
This is on par with the "Nuke Mecca" Grandstand.
The open border pimps that aid and abet CRIMINALS are getting their jollies that this fine man is in trouble!
How bout that one Vicente? Is he on the way to face justice?
"Where has anyone said otherwise?"
Ill let the absurdity of this statement stand for itself.
These two incidents are just plain wrong.
Dog?
How many Tom Tancredo press releases just like this one do you need? Tancredo doesn't even bother to work with the WH or his party on the issue. He just sends out a flamer like this pretty much every Friday, and nobody but his choir ever sees them. It's a great fund-raising tactic, but it accomplishes nothing useful.
Why should we respect Mexico's laws when they won't respect ours? "The Dog" might be a little loose with the law, but he did what needed to be done to bring back a rapist that Mexico would not send back.
Tom is a little loose with the facts. But, after all, he is a political creature.
Well said.
Hmm I wonder if that is in or close to tom tancredo's congressional district.
Seems that tommy tancredo sticks up for publicity hounding reality tv show stars and not his own constiuients.
Figures because tommy tancredo is a publicity hound himself.
Perfect demonstration of hypocracy. Thanks.
So is rape ... oh that's illegal in both countries.
No.
Naah, I'd say it has more to do with preventing crime in the United States by making Mexico no longer a sanctuary for criminals. Mexican authorities won't send us anyone who could face the death penalty or life in prison... such as the punk Dog brought back. Result? People who commit the most heinous of crimes in the United States can dodge justice. This decreases the cost of committing crimes, which serves to encourage their commission.
He will get no bail in Mexico. The way things seem to work down there, he will more likely be shot trying to escape or grab a gun and shoot himself five or six times in the head in a suicidal act. We are not sending a man to justice even though he broke the law. From what I have seen there is little justice to be found in Mexico.
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