Study: Terror deportations remain stable

[one...two...tree 2,762]

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - U.S. immigration agencies say anti-terrorism is their primary mission, but they tried to deport only 12 people on terrorism-related charges from 2004 through 2006, according to a private research study released Sunday.

That group of 12 represents a tiny fraction of the 814,073 people the government tried to remove from the country during those three years. The study's authors acknowledge the figure understates the anti-terrorism effort by the

Homeland Security Department's immigration agencies.

In addition, because no one knows how many terrorists are in the United States or tried to get in, there is no way to say whether the figure of 12 is too low, too high or about right.

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A former New York Times reporter, Burnham is co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The private research group at Syracuse University analyzed the work of two Homeland Security agencies — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

TRAC analyzed records of the more than 200 immigration court judges employed by the Justice Department back through 1992 and the department's records of criminal cases brought in U.S. district courts. The records were acquired under the Freedom of Information Act.

TRAC also found that a separate, broader category of national security charges were brought to try to deport an additional 114 people during the three years. Criminal charges such as human trafficking, drug dealing and other traditional crimes were used against 106,878, or 13 percent of those the government tried to deport.

The overwhelming majority of deportation cases — 86.5 percent — were based on traditional immigration violations such as sneaking past border inspections, not having a valid visa or overstaying a student visa, TRAC said.

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Defending the performance, government officials note the absence of major terrorist attacks in this country since Sept. 11, 2001.

But TRAC unearthed evidence the total of 12 persons targeted for deportation on 14 separate terrorist charges might have been too high. Only four charges were upheld by immigration judges; six charges were withdrawn by Homeland Security; one was not sustained; two are pending; and one was otherwise dealt with.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_on_...ion_terrorism_5

[peejay 327]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

Edited May 28, 2007 by peejay

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

...and what you propose we do about potential terrorist that are homegrown?

[mawilson 2,133]

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

Unless, of course, Bush knows something we don't, 9/11 was staged and there's no real terrorist threat.

[GaryC 7]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

...and what you propose we do about potential terrorist that are homegrown?

What has that got to do with securing our border? You sure like to misdirect people. The sign of a weak argument.

To answer your question, we hunt them down and put them in jail! Is that so hard to understand?

[mawilson 2,133]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

...and what you propose we do about potential terrorist that are homegrown?

What has that got to do with securing our border? You sure like to misdirect people. The sign of a weak argument.

To answer your question, we hunt them down and put them in jail! Is that so hard to understand?

I think Steven's argument is

"even if we secure the border, there will always be homegrown terrorists; since we cannot

protect ourselves from terrorism 100%, we shouldn't even try".

Very weak indeed.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

...and what you propose we do about potential terrorist that are homegrown?

What has that got to do with securing our border? You sure like to misdirect people. The sign of a weak argument.

To answer your question, we hunt them down and put them in jail! Is that so hard to understand?

I think Steven's argument is

"even if we secure the border, there will always be homegrown terrorists; since we cannot

protect ourselves from terrorism 100%, we shouldn't even try".

Very weak indeed.

Oye, Mark. That's NOT what I'm suggesting. Terrorists don't grow on trees or hatched from eggs. Therefore, you can't seal off your borders from terrorism - that's ludicrous. Good intelligence is worth its weight in gold - something that can't be said about the price of a wall.

[peejay 327]

That's probably just the ones they know about that came here legally. The rest of them that snuck in unannounced (illegally) you won't know about until it is too late. Ka-boom!

How many years after 9/11 and the start of war operations in Iraq does it take to secure the damned border? Is Bush for real? I'm afraid so.

...and what you propose we do about potential terrorist that are homegrown?

What has that got to do with securing our border? You sure like to misdirect people. The sign of a weak argument.

To answer your question, we hunt them down and put them in jail! Is that so hard to understand?

I think Steven's argument is

"even if we secure the border, there will always be homegrown terrorists; since we cannot

protect ourselves from terrorism 100%, we shouldn't even try".

Very weak indeed.

Oye, Mark. That's NOT what I'm suggesting. Terrorists don't grow on trees or hatched from eggs. Therefore, you can't seal off your borders from terrorism - that's ludicrous. Good intelligence is worth its weight in gold - something that can't be said about the price of a wall.

A wall is dirt cheap compared to social services for endless streams of amnestied illegal aliens and their US citizen offspring. Wake up or pay up. This lunacy doesn't benefit anyone but the corporate elite you hate and the illegal aliens you so love. It's a knife in the back for a vast majority of Americans.

So...why double or triple the danger of terrorism by putting out the welcome mat to illegal foreign nationals from who knows where? What's your point? I don't see any upside to this madness. Let 'em all in unhindered because they're coming anyway?

Let's all just give up because we are powerless to control our own national destiny? Not me...I don't buy it.