<p>2200 Criminal Immigrants are Arrested http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-criminalimmigrants_15tex.ART.State.Edition1.bed98d.html[/url] ”>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-criminalimmigrants_15tex.ART.State.Edition1.bed98d.html</a> ;
The sweep by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents resulted in the arrests of 2,179 criminal fugitives from other countries. Their crimes include sexual assault, burglary, drug dealing and other violent offenses, and most had ignored deportation orders from immigration judges.
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<p>Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/nyregion/15detain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin[/url] ”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/nyregion/15detain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</a> ;
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that the government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens on the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation…</p>
<p>“The executive is free to single out ‘nationals of a particular country’ and focus enforcement efforts on them,” the judge wrote. “This is, of course, an extraordinarily rough and overbroad sort of distinction of which, if applied to citizens, our courts would be highly suspicious.”</p>
<p>Yet, he continued, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that Congress and the executive branch, in exercising their broad power over naturalization and immigration, can make rules that would be unacceptable if applied to American citizens.
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DRJ4
June 16, 2006, 12:50am
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<p>Bandit,</p>
<p>Thanks. Both articles are very interesting. The Dallas Morning News article was especially disturbing because it illustrates how many serious criminal offenders there are in the US (and our state of Texas) who could have been deported as illegal immigrants at the time of their first conviction or who were deported and illegally re-entered. </p>
<p>It’s one thing to give people the chance to come to America to earn a living. It’s another thing entirely to host a criminal class of violent/dangerous offenders.</p>