Posted on 10/29/2011 11:55:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The state has been unable to enforce a new law designed to increase the deportations of illegal immigrants from the Texas prison system amid concerns that federal immigration officials are unprepared to handle the anticipated influx of convicted criminals, state officials said.
Under the new law, which was scheduled to take effect Sept. 1, state prisoners who are granted parole and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials must either be deported or leave the country voluntarily - or risk being returned to state custody to serve out the remainder of their sentences.
The law was crafted to address a vexing problem identified by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which reported granting parole to some illegal immigrants and turning them over to ICE - only to later learn that they were not removed from the country, said state Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano.
...ICE union officials said part of the problem lies in a shortage of immigration judges assigned to hear cases in Huntsville. The immigration court system is run by a separate agency, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which declined comment on Thursday.
Rissie Owens, chair of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, said that unless ICE has finished its removal proceedings, board members can't be sure that "those they vote to release are actually deported and not released into our communities where they may be a threat to pubic safety."
ICE data shows that roughly one in five of the 5,000 illegal immigrants discharged annually lacks a final removal order clearing the way for deportation.
...Under the new state law, ICE can no longer release detainees with criminal convictions, and instead must either remove them from the country, house them in its own federal detention system or return them to the custody of TDCJ.
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Wow are you thick. Let me give it to you in simple terms: He mandated gardasil because HE hates cancer.
Exactly. Perry mandated Gardasil because he hates cancer. You’ve provided definitive proof that your original statement is false. He clearly doesn’t blame others for that decision. Thanks for the help proving your original statement wrong.
Keep telling yourself that.
Please tell me what is conservative about mandating gardasil.
You mean let’s change the subject and stop talking about your silly original post that said saying “I hate cancer” is blaming others? I’ll be happy to change the subject if you’re willing to admit you were wrong and that saying “I hate cancer” really is justification for the HPV vaccine that requires no “blaming others.” Like I said, I have no interest in discussing anything with someone who believes that they and their preferred candidate can do no wrong.
I stand by my original post that Perry blames everyone else (and everything) for his bad decisions.
If “I hate cancer” is “blaming others,” then there is no justification that could possibly be given for any vaccine that would fall outside of “blaming others.” Like I said, you’ve defined “blaming others” so broadly that nothing Perry said would fall outside of your predefined position. Which would be fine, if you hadn’t tried to hide your predisposition in a claim of somehow finding a character flaw in Perry.
Perry has many character flaws, placing blame everywhere except where it belongs is only one of them.
So justify any vaccine for any disease if trying to defeat the complication from that disease is “blaming others”.
Why don't you ask Perry why he felt the need to mandate a vaccine without any research (which he admitted to). How many other states mandated this vaccine?
Perry's cancer excuse is playing on the fears of parents AND kids. It's a ridiculous, nanny state knee jerk reaction to put more government in people's lives.
In the meantime, you keep trying to find excuses, ok?
Cheers and goodbye.
You keep trying to change the subject to nanny-statism or big government, but it won’t work. Just admit it, you came up with a test, a test that Perry could never pass regardless of his motivation, to claim you’ve discovered some character flaw in Perry. But trying to reduce cervical cancer is not “blaming others,” despite all of your protestations to the contrary. But by all means, please keep saying goofy things like hating cancer is blaming others. It’s real easy to beat arguments like that.
Maybe he'll blame bread makers next.
Hey, if Perry is toast, will he blame bread or toaster makers next?
Semantics? I’ve stayed on point, arguing that your original post was wrong. You’re the one who’s tried to change your justification time and again. Your original point is wrong - saying I want to reduce cervical cancer is not “blaming others.” It is a medical justification for a vaccine. If eliminating a complication from a disease cannot be used to justify a vaccine, nothing can. I don’t expect you to be able to admit you were wrong, any more than I believe that “cheers and goodbye” means you’re leaving. I, however, do mean what I say, so cheers and goodbye.
” Hey, if Perry is toast, will he blame bread or toaster makers next? “
Look out, Toastmaster! Your days are numbered : )
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