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 ?”
Excellent point.
Seems to me they're being provided by the Republicans' Mexican foreign policy decisions. But shoot the messenger, huh? Tancredo is really irrelevant in the whole thing. Whether he's there or not, the problems still remain and people are still pissed about them.
Just speculated on Denver's Peter Boyles KHOW talk show:
Raul Gomez Garcia's extradition for the murder of Denver
Policeman, Donny Young, prompted the arrest of Duane (Dog)
Chapman.
Yep, you're right. I was relying on memory rather than reading the entire article.
As an aside, I noted in other reports that the Chapmans had a local Mexican cop as an assist when they arrested the creep. So why were they arrested in the first place, and why weren't the charges dropped? It's all political and the Chapmans and American victims are held hostage.
The crime is that Mexico continuously refuses to aid the U.S. in tracking down those who try to escape the U.S. justice system by running away to Mexico. And then they expect us to treat Mexican national criminals in our country in accordance with Mexican law instead of U.S. law.
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.
Tone down the language now
Our own liberal government is a terrorist to this country since they degrade this country left and right.
I propose a new law. Any person who degrades his country, particularly the US, should be sent without a jury hearing to another country in the middle east and have them suffer in the sands. Put them in a sandy grave, drop a bomb over there, and watch them turn to glass.
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