Bush admin. makes immigration strides in 2008

Associated Press ^ | 11/6/08 | Eileen Sullivan

[kenavi]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants — nearly 350,000 — in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record number of new Americans during the same time period, more than 1 million. Bush administration officials consider these to be great accomplishments within a system that President-elect Obama calls "broken and overwhelmed" on his transition Web site.

[kenavi]

Can the Left stand this solution? Can the Right?

[Cedric]

Good news. Wish it were a lot more.

[GaryLee1990]

Under Obama...the gates to this country will be wide open and he'll be there to greet them with open arms.

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[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

RELEASE RAMOS AND COMPEAN!

[Mr. Jazzy]

Roger THAT!!!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Too little, too late Bush. We worked our asses off to come back to this country and followed ALL the rules. Makes is all the sweeter......but we might as well have jumped the Rio Grande. My husband thanks you (not) who is a hard-working, tax-paying citizen who gives to his community. Because he ‘did it by the law’....he IS NOT qualified for any ‘benefits’ such as welfare, if he happens to lose his job. Guess that’s what ‘sponsorship’ is for, huh? Thank God we had that!

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

That’s all I want Bush do to before he leaves. Now is the time to start a campaign to achieve Ramos and Compean’s pardon and release.

[Netizen]

See what happens when they actually enforce the laws that are already on the books!

[kenavi]

"September 11, 2008
STATEMENT OF U.S. ATTORNEY JOHNNY SUTTON FOLLOWING TODAY’S RULING BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT IN RE: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. IGNACIO RAMOS AND JOSE ALONSO COMPEAN

Today, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for a rehearing and a request for an en banc hearing in the case of United States vs. Ramos and Compean. This action by the Fifth Circuit means they will not hear anymore arguments on the appeal and the circuit has ordered that the petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc be denied. I am pleased with today’s ruling, just as I was earlier this summer when a panel of the same court affirmed the convictions of the most serious charges against Mr. Compean and Mr. Ramos. Today’s ruling validates what this office has said all along - this prosecution was about the rule of law, plain and simple.

On July 28, 2008, the Fifth Circuit, in upholding the majority of Compean and Ramos' convictions, stated that “[t]he trial of the case was conducted fairly and without reversible error.” With today’s denial of a rehearing and a denial of an en banc hearing, I would again ask that those who have criticized the prosecution, generally relying upon misleading and at times false versions of what happened, to re-evaluate their positions in light of the court record, including the description of the evidence provided by the Fifth Circuit opinion. I believe that those who understand the record and the evidence introduced at trial will realize that the actions of Compean and Ramos in shooting an unarmed and fleeing suspect were serious crimes which had to be prosecuted in order to maintain the rule of law.

The simple truth of this case is that former Agents Compean and Ramos shot 15 times at an unarmed man who was running away from them and posed no threat. They lied about what happened, covered up the shooting, and then proceeded to write up and file a false report.

Agents Compean and Ramos were indicted by an El Paso federal grand jury and were unanimously convicted after a 2 ½ week jury trial in which both defendants testified. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the most serious charges against them and has denied their request for a rehearing on the matter. In America, law-enforcement officers do not get to shoot unarmed suspects who are running away, lie about it and file official reports that are false. That is a crime and prosecutors cannot look the other way.

[kbennkc]

So is this a net decrease in illegal aliens ? How do we know ? Who knows how many are here ? During the amnesty debate they said we couldn’t round up and deport 20 million , so does that mean there are only about 19,650,000 or so left . Heckof a job .

[wastedyears]

The real number is probably sickeningly over 25,000,000.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Bush should still commute their sentences, which were excessive, IMO.

[DustyMoment]

Oh! . . . . . oh! . . . . . . Oh! Getting all tingly, here.

Geepers, 350,000 criminals deported against and estimated 12 million.

There are bigger drops of water when it sprinkles than Bush’s “immigration strides”. What BALONEY.

[kbennkc]

The officers screwed up badly , but until they lied and covered up , I would have been against any criminal conviction . That being said I hope W will fashion some kind of relief for these men if just out of compassion . He was so stingy with Scooter you would have thought it was costing him money . Hell BJ pardoned people for cash . He even pardoned people who did not ask for it .

[Netizen]

A few have left because the poor economy has left them jobless. The one good thing about the recession. I say seal that border now.

[gubamyster]

ping

[ZULU]

TOO LITTLE - TOO LATE.

[AuntB]

Further down in the article they talk about Auntiegate....Auntie was supposed to be able to talk to the press after Nov. 5th. Where is she now?

” It was recently discovered that Obama’s aunt is among the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.

The woman, Zeituni Onyango, had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. She has been living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father. Federal officials are prohibited from talking about her case, citing privacy laws. “

[SwinneySwitch]

Last I heard she was in Cleveland, OH