Revelation: the U.S. lets other countries decide whether or not we deport criminal aliens

Interviewed at FrontPage Magazine today is Ames Holbrook, a former federal deportation officer and author of The Deporter: One Agent’s Struggle Against the U.S. Government’s Refusal to Expel Criminal Aliens.

Holbrook tells FP:

When aliens’ crimes are sufficiently serious, they get ordered removed from the United States. DO’s can snatch them off the streets or out of jails. And whether the aliens were here legally or illegally in the first place, now they all have the same status: Ordered Deported. We can discuss the illegal angle more, but for now I am talking about criminal aliens: felons. They have to go. If there were any sense to this, these dangerous invaders would be shipped out automatically, right? Sorry. The short of it is many foreign nations don’t want their criminals back. And when these governments refuse to accept their problem children, our government currently says, “Okay,” and orders the predators liberated here on our soil. To resume shattering lives in America….

FP: What would be some specific recommendations you would give for the U.S. to start a path to a more secure future?

Holbrook: That’s simple: Force foreign countries to take their criminals back. There’s no excuse for our leaders to enable this catastrophe. President George W. Bush famously declared that America would never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. And yet we are doing exactly that. We keep seeking permission from foreign governments to return their threats to society, the foreign governments keep telling us no, and we keep releasing the dangerous alien felons to continue to murder, rape, and maim us in our own communities. I’m not being abstract here. We are talking about rapists, murderers, kidnapers, carjackers, child molesters—every brand of criminal alien in existence, all funnelled back into our communities. Meanwhile we are trading with these countries, allowing their ruling classes to travel freely in America, even contributing foreign aid.

Pretty good. Sadly, however, Holbrook, for all his clarity seems to support virtually unlimited legal immigration and is a big supporter of diversifying America even more than it already is.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 09, 2007 10:14 AM | Send