[NapkinUser]

The full text of Tancredo’s letter can be found here.

[texastoo]

This sounds like Mexican mordidas. The Max Factor fortune probably bribed a few officials in Mexico and the U.S. Dog will never get out of jail as Mexico will continuously blackmail his family. This is a disgrace on the Bush administration.

Several years ago a teenager went across the border and bought some valium. The pharmacia where she purchased the valium notified the Mexican officials at the border. She was subsequently tried and imprisoned in Mexico. The Mexican officials blackmailed the family for thousands of dollars. In the local newspapers, the family begged for help as they were not wealthy. This teenager had a bad case of asthma and the Mexican officials refused her drugs. It took several years to get her out of prison. She was so sick that she died the day she got out of prison in Mission, Texas. Everyone figured the Mexican officials knew how sick she was And let her out. It was a huge case in the Valley.

[montag813]

Congress needs to threaten impeachment hearings against Gonzales immediately unless Chapman is released, and the charges against the Border Patrol agents dropped. All funding to the DoJ should be CUT OFF. Enough is enough. Does our Justice Department serve the American people, or the Mexican government?

[goldstategop]

Its outrageous the Feds arrested Duane "Dog" Chapman from bringing escaped rapist Andrew Luster to justice. Bounty hunting may be illegal in Mexico but since when did the Feds take leave of common sense and decency? The guy should have been given a medal and a meeting with the President. And how does our government repay him for doing the right thing? By putting him behind bars! Color me disgusted at the Administration's arrest of a decent person when they can't even secure our borders. This shows where their priorities are!

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[zbigreddogz]

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.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Tommy should have shut up since the next day the payoff was revealed in the extradition of one of Mexico's biggest drug lords to the US. I wondered what the other shoe on this would be.

[hgro]

Lets cowtow even more to those crooked pols and drug dealers south of the border. What a crock.

[roaddog727]

Set the Dog Free~!

Set the Dog Free~!

[Shuttle Shucker]

Mexicans fear the long arm of the law because of successful FBI sting operations like Operation Casablanca (1998 I think) which resulted in the punishment of corrupt Mexican bankers whom the Mexican govt. had allowed to get away with their misdeeds. Chapman's rise to fame represents a real threat to them.