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(US Attorney Chistopher)Christie: Immigrants are not criminals
The Star Ledger ^ | April 27, 2008 | Julie O'Connor

Posted on 04/27/2008 8:56:09 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084

Immigrants and their advocates today found an unlikely ally: the top law enforcement officer in New Jersey.

"Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime," Christie told more than 60 residents and town officials. "The whole phrase of 'illegal immigrant' connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime."

Being undocumented may be a civil wrong, but it's not a criminal act, Christie said.

"Don't let people make you believe that that's a crime that the U.S. Attorney's Office should be doing something about," he added of entering the country illegally. "It is not."

After touching on the usual topics of his corruption-busting career and battles against gang violence, Christie fielded questions -- mostly on immigration issues -- from Morris County residents and community leaders in an open forum that at times grew heated.

The U.S. attorney had been invited by the local chapter of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, a statewide group formed to empower Latinos to obtain political, economic and social equity, and hosted by the First United Methodist Church of Dover.

While Christie told the audience it doesn't take a "genius" to see there's a "serious immigration problem" in this country, he stressed an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal unless that person re-enters the country after being deported.

Rather, the state's top federal prosecutor called the problem of undocumented immigration "an administrative matter" that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is supposed to address.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


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To: Eric Blair 2084

“Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime,”

WTF


21 posted on 04/27/2008 9:24:34 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

“He got a lot of heat for hiring John Ashcroft and his firm for a public project. The leftists are trying to take him down.”

It wasn’t a public project. It was an agreement between a private company and the government to settle charges against the company. There is no reason they’re should’ve been a public bidding process, but it was poorly handled b/c the perception of inappropriate conduct is clear.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080226/us_attorneys_oversight.html?.v=1
http://politickernj.com/tags/christopher-christie


22 posted on 04/27/2008 9:26:33 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Holding my nose in 2008. I disagree with McCain on lots of issue, but with the Democrats on more.)
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To: umgud

If I were to rob a bank, would the news media report that I was making an “unauthorized withdrawl?”

If someone breaks into your house, are they “uninvited house guests?”


23 posted on 04/27/2008 9:31:19 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Immigrants are not criminals

Of course they're not.

In the eyes of the Jorge Bush administration Border Patrol agents are the criminals.

24 posted on 04/27/2008 9:31:53 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: TheBattman

I think you answered your question.

Because they’re incompetent


25 posted on 04/27/2008 9:32:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
"Don't let people make you believe that that's a crime that the U.S. Attorney's Office should be doing something about," he added of entering the country illegally. "It is not."

The die was cast when we first let the gov't and LEO decide which laws they would enforce and which ones they wouldn't.

26 posted on 04/27/2008 9:35:33 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
He should tell that to the parents of Jamiel Shaw. He should go up to them in person and tell them the illegal who gunned down their son in cold blood was not a criminal.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340650,00.html

27 posted on 04/27/2008 9:42:29 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: umgud
True to a point.

Wrong. See post 14. Entering this Country without following the law is a crime, even the first time. The second time it is not just a crime, it's a felony. To paraphrase Patton, this guy knows no more about law enforcement than he does about fornication. What an embarrassment to N.J. and to the Country.

28 posted on 04/27/2008 9:43:58 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Prokopton

Wasn’t sure about 1st time, but I seemed to remember the 2cnd was a felony. THX


29 posted on 04/27/2008 9:47:23 PM PDT by umgud
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To: enough_idiocy
Is this not the exact declaration that Rudy Giuliani made at one point during the primary campaign?

The only thing I can figure is that someone who enters the country legally, but overstays his visa, is not committing a criminal offense.

Or, that a person who obtains work in the USA, but makes no false or fraudulent claims to do so, is not a criminal.

30 posted on 04/27/2008 9:57:39 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Eric Blair 2084
"The whole phrase of 'illegal immigrant' connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime."

Yes, dumbass, that's the point. THEY ARE CRIMINALS BY THEIR VERY PRESENCE IN THE STATES!

When you enter someone's home uninvited, you aren't an undocumented guest, you're a thief or worse. Illegals are criminals, just like the someone breaking and entering your home.
31 posted on 04/27/2008 10:02:33 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: zeestephen

Look, if you’re a foreign national, you have to have a visa to enter the U.S. or be a member of a protected refugee group. All of these have restrictions regarding employment or where you live or how long you can stay or what you have to do if you move from one place to another. If you violate those restrictions, you violate immigration law. If you’re a refugee here on an I-94 with full employment rights, you still have to notify Homeland Security of your new address within two weeks of moving. If you don’t, you’re subject to fines and/or deportment. If someone comes on a tourist visa and then bugs out and find employment, he’s an illegal alien. If he slips across the border and someone gives him work, he’s an illegal alien. If someone comes on a student visa and then gets a job, he violates his visa and is another type of illegal alien.


32 posted on 04/27/2008 10:26:07 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: zeestephen

Entering this country without notifying immigration is a criminal act, and you can be jailed and fined for it. This US Attorney is differentiating a civil crime from one that requires a grand jury to prosecute. If you get a minor speeding or vehicle equipment ticket, fail to shovel your walkway after a snow, or, in some states, get caught with a small amount of pot, you are given a ticket. That is what he is calling a civil crime. He’s just trying to make illegal entry sound less of a problem than it is.


33 posted on 04/27/2008 10:26:25 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Have you ever heard of prozac? Ask your doctor about it.


34 posted on 04/27/2008 10:41:13 PM PDT by MovementConservative (John Roberts and Sam Alito.... Thank you GWB)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Simply stepping over the border is a misdemeanor if done illegally. For an illegal alien to persist over a period of days to weeks requires a source of income. It is a felony to employ an illegal alien. It is also illegal for an illegal to seek employment. Once the illegal tries to get "sneaky" by committing identity theft to seek employment, you have a felon in full flower. This U.S. attorney is a nitwit.
35 posted on 04/27/2008 10:44:27 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: george76
Does this idiot even grasp what kind of "message" he, as an officer of the Department of Justice, is broadcasting to the rest of the people throughout the world...??

He and Johnny Sutton need to find work in the private sector.

36 posted on 04/27/2008 10:48:29 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Bin ladin agrees.


37 posted on 04/27/2008 10:56:13 PM PDT by Waco
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To: MovementConservative
I didn't know you cared Movement.

I'm touched. No, really, touched.

However my position stands. By coming here outside proper channels and without documentation, these people are indeed criminals and should be treated as such. Rounded up, divested of illegally gotten goods and money and then repatriated to their homelands whether their governments want them back or not.

I do tend to get a bit passionate when my home is being over run by criminals, it's a quirk, I know. Call it racism, nativism, or whatever demeaning slur you want, I call it knowing right from wrong and acting accordingly.

38 posted on 04/27/2008 11:59:33 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says

When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.

Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%

Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.

Wanted for Murder in New York City.

Chicago wanted for Murder


Philadelphia wanted for murder

San Francisco wanted for Murder


New Orleans wanted for Murder

Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC

FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals) Around 40% of the FBI's wanted for murder are Mexican Nationals

There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.

Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article. Also this article from the LA Times. And here. This makes intuitive sense. We see stories regularly of drug gang killings in Mexico but we don't see those same stories in the USA. The reason we don't see those stories is not because its not happening. Rather we don't see the stories about illegals killing blacks because that kind of story is terribly politically incorrect. The populations being displaced in downtown sanctuary cities especially are American blacks. That means that their criminal elements would be pushed aside by Mexican gangs as well. That's also the story that the wanted for murder posters in all the major cities seems to suggest.

Nevertheless, the pattern of non reporting is starting to break. Discovery Channel has a series called Gangland that mentions ethnic cleasing of blacks by Mexican gangs

Reported Foreign Nationals on Death Row in the U.S.

To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.

All that said the true number of criminal aliens is far higher than is revealed by criminal aliens in prisons. Most are simply waived through the courts.DHS Secretary Chertoff, has been quoted as warning that two million people in this country illegally have committed serious crimes. See also here and here Here is more info from Judicial Watch.

However the number of illegals on death row is far lower.


39 posted on 04/28/2008 12:02:35 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
So can I argue that Armed Robbery is not a crime?

How about Burglary? Those are not crimes, right?

I swear, with the OUTRIGHT THEFT that ILLEGAL ALIENS are committing of my taxpayer dollars via welfare and other social programs, they may as well make all forms of theft legal.

40 posted on 04/28/2008 12:40:38 AM PDT by Prole ("American Citizens should not fear the government. The government should fear American Citizens.")
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