Good article on immigration nonsense

[Mike B. 231]

Apparently DHS is transferring criminal aliens to the Fifth Circuit due to that one circuit being out of step with the others on interpretation of immigration law:

ELMONT, N.Y. — When a police officer in this Long Island suburb found a marijuana cigarette in Jerry Lemaine’s pocket one night in January 2007, a Legal Aid lawyer counseled him to plead guilty. Under state statutes, the penalty was only a $100 fine, and though Mr. Lemaine had been caught with a small amount of marijuana years earlier as a teenager, that case had been dismissed.

But Mr. Lemaine, a legal permanent resident, soon discovered that his quick guilty plea had dire consequences. Immigration authorities flew him in shackles to Texas, where he spent three years behind bars, including 10 months in solitary confinement, as he fought deportation to Haiti, the country he had left at age 3.

Under federal rulings that prevailed in Texas, Mr. Lemaine had lost the legal opportunity that rulings in New York would have allowed: to have an immigration judge weigh his offenses, including earlier misdemeanors resolved without jail time, against other aspects of his life, like his nursing studies at Hunter Business School; his care for his little sister, a United States citizen with a brain disorder; and the help he gave his divorced mother, who had worked double shifts to move the family out of a dangerous Brooklyn neighborhood.

More at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/nyregion/31drug.html

[VetsWife328 7]

If you can do the crime you gotta do the time ! ZERO tolerance for drugs on my part.USC or Immigrant I don't care.

Nat

[Mike B. 231]

If you can do the crime you gotta do the time ! ZERO tolerance for drugs on my part.USC or Immigrant I don't care.

Nat

The person is being deported on a basis that is likely a violation of the INA and was transferred to a district court that had nothing to do the crime at all solely so that established case law could be violated. I'm sorry, but the actions of the government in this case are way more of a threat to the rule of law in our country than the act of being in possession of a single joint of marijuana.

Not that this has anything to do with the case or the validity of your opinion, but out of curiosity, did you at any time vote for George W. Bush, Albert Gore, or Barack Obama (all criminals who have violated the narcotics laws of the United States) for president?