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 ?”
If Tancredo doesn't do extremely well in the Republican primaries in '08, I will be very surprised.
Of those mentione din 2008 so far he is the one I like the best. But I have to see where he stands on all issues.
I was hoping someone in Washington would stand up for Chapman. Guess I should have known we could count on Tom.
Fricken bizarro universe.
Does anyone know anything about the Hawaiian magistrate that claims the administration urged the action against Dog?
Not only unwarranted but hypocritical.
I can't believe the Feds arrested Dog. The Mexican Federales don't cooperate with us on major criminal matters, much less minor ones like Dog's...........
So Alberto's thugs are going after a good American patriot in the name of the Mexican government. Why am I not surprised . . .
That last line is great.
Tancredo, one of the last few Republicans with BALLS.
Many thugs who have skipped their bail in Hawaii, are livin' la vida loco right now.
Amen! It's like the freakin' Twilight Zone...
LOL! I won't. Tancredo is a loose cannon whose primary interest is himself. Folks can smell that a mile away.
Were he otherwise, he might actually be an effective advocate for addressing illegal immigration. As it is now, he merely feeds the Democrats tomorrow's talking points.
The message to all criminals... make it to Mexico, and you're home free, because no one will risk going after you after they make an example of "Dog".
Mexico has constanty fought our legitimate efforts over the years for sending back the bad guys. Now we bend over backwards for them. The Mexican government flips us off every day and we roll over for them. I don't really care that it's Dog that is in trouble, I am sick that we are giving in to them for anyone!
We can spend federal money and time arresting a guy that chases down rapists and criminals world wide, but we won't arrest illegal aliens coming into our borders to engage and hit and run(literally) wrecks, rapes, and deflate the wage base of the american worker. I'm starting to get fed up with Bush and his domestic policies.
If we are going to round up american lawbreakers of mexican law, to ship them back to mexico, when are the mexicans going to spend time helping us prevent mexican lawbreakers of american law from coming here. The people need to get rid of everyone in congress that doesn't support a true and effective illegal crossing bill.
Doesn't the "DOG" arrest people and take them in because they have broken the law....whether here or elsewhere????
Soooooo.....what's the problem? He broke the law, is he any better than anyone else or is his middle name "KENNEDY" or something????
If you and I did something like this, wouldn't they come after us?????
I like Dog on TV. He's very entertaining. They arrested his son too. I wish them best of luck with the Mexicans. Get home soon Dog!!
I don't think there will be a mexican ***s left to kiss by the time this "Administration" leaves office. '08 cannot come a minute too soon as far as I'm concerned. For the sake of our sovereignty and national security, border security and illegal immigration MUST be made a priority by Republicans and even then, it will take us years, if ever, to undo the damage caused by the OBL.
We need MORE Dog Chapmans with access into Mexico to bring back a host of other criminals.
Tell you what Fox, we will trade one thousand illegal mexicans for one illegal american. What a deal!
 Good Grief! |
Rape is illegal in the United States. Good luck getting Mexico to send someone back here to face justice.
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Rape in the US has nothing to do with this case.
I could give a **** about that cesspool's laws. Millions of illegal Mexicans violate our laws every day. MEXICO IS A HOSTILE NATION. MEXICO IS NOT OUR FRIEND
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like a coward to me.
What, you mean aside from the fact that the sleazebag Dog brought in was convicted of rape in the United States?
;)
Yet you complain about Mexicans breaking our laws. (constantly)
Another Hypocrite Thread.
Here's the perfect solution:
Dog could convert to Mexican, then come back across the border as an illegal. Then he will have more protection and rights by the US government than actual American citizens have.
You're kidding, right? From the moment they cross our damn border the Mexicans are illegal. Yet Mexico ENCOURAGES it. Dog went after a MURDER who was from the UNITED STATES. Of course it was illegal, but it doesn't compare to the crap Mexico allows it's people to come here and do, drugs, murder, theft, rape, not to mention pillaging our social services and medical services; the list goes on forever.
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?
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