A letter from Rhino Times reader Alan Burke
Courts and prisons are overwhelmed and underfunded. Courts frequently agree to deport accused illegal aliens to save limited trial resources. The accused agrees in order to avoid significant jail time and, in many cases, a criminal record. This creates a huge crack to fall through.
Our borders are so porous that it’s easy to return. Depending on local reporting procedures, border agents and other jurisdictions often don’t know about these agreements. Since the trial stopped before reaching a verdict, they weren’t found guilty. Their records are essentially clean. A few years ago, an illegal alien in New York was repeatedly deported (repeatedly returned) for harassing an individual that he eventually murdered.
Extremist prosecutors and judges compound the problem. Prosecutors will “hold as long as possible without charging” suspected illegal aliens. They will never have a day in court to enter a deportation agreement. These prosecutor’s characterizations depend on the audience. They tell general voters and judges that their decision to not charge is similar in spirit to court approved deportation agreements, to save taxpayer money. To their base/donors, their intentions are to protect illegals from court approved deportation agreements. When confronted, they “held the accused as long as possible” to appear tough on crime. They conveniently leave out the “without charges” part. They intentionally make it difficult for ICE to deport with and without a court approved agreement. As a result, accused illegal aliens are in jail dramatically less time than a citizen found guilty of the same crime and often with a clean record. This is unfair to similarly positioned citizens and victims.
If the reports are true, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is suspiciously similar to the above issue. A judge believed he was a gang member. They intended for him to be deported. His record is clean enough that no source has reported a verdict. Worse, the naïve judge made deportation nearly impossible. By ruling that he be deported…but not to his home country, the agreement was essentially unenforceable. Many countries are unwilling to take back their own suspected criminal citizens. Accepting another country’s suspected criminal citizen with international gang ties was nearly impossible without negotiations. Biden’s Administration was unlikely to negotiate.
International criminal gangs are intentionally overwhelming our already overburdened system. Gullible attorneys and judges are making the crack easier to fall through, sometimes intentionally.
Alan Burke
It is pathetic how Trump has rallied his cult to believe the rule of law is a waste of time as Alan lays out in this letter to the editor.
The immigration law that conservatives refused to pass at Trump’s request specifically addressed the backlog of cases in immigration courts that remain heavily underfunded. Instead of whining about the problem, why don’t conservatives actually solve the problem. Ignoring the rule of law can’t be the solution as that is un-American, yet that is what Trump has elected as his solution. \
When will he make this decision against citizens of the US? He has already talked about ‘deporting’ American’s that he doesn’t like. “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, (reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens).
Supporting this rhetoric is disgusting, un-American and of course illegal.
But you be you.
Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, or the preferred narratives from the Left and media, are “Maryland man,” “Maryland dad,” and “he deserves due process.”
He’s been in front of 17 judges, a significant number that reflects the extensive legal process he has undergone, with $5 million in legal fees that he didn’t pay, which highlights the burden on the legal system and taxpayers. But guess what? He’s gone and will never be back.
Whenever you hear the leftists these days screeching about ‘due process’ for a deported illegal alien MS-13 criminal, it’s a stark reminder of their hypocrisy. They demand rights for those who have violated the law, yet they do not believe a single word of it.
Even from Chris, a hypothetical individual who only likes to stir controversy and doesn’t believe most of the inflammatory statements he makes, the call for ‘due process’ for a deported illegal alien MS-13 criminal is hypocritical at best.
If you don’t like the legal process, you don’t get to just decide to skip it, even if you are the President of the United States. Everyone knows the immigration system is long ago broken. We should call for change to these processes most certainly. The immigration reform bill proposed by a bi-partisan group that Trump demanded not to be passed, had several provisions to streamline the immigration courts both in funding and restructuring to speed up the processes.
My suggestion is stop complaining about the process everyone knows is broken and complain about the guy that refused to actually fix the process….Trump. His wanting to just skip due process of law is a lazy, anti-American, and unconstitutional approach that feels far too much like a police state versus making American great.
Oh, I I am not hypothetical. I do believe what I write.
But you be you
Garcia was under court order to not deport him. Trump deported him. The Rule of Law does not matter to Trump. Full Stop.
During a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee, a police officer raised suspicions of human trafficking, finding Abrego Garcia had eight people with no luggage crowded into his vehicle.
Abrego Garcia was arrested, but the Biden-era FBI instructed the Tennessee Highway Patrol to let him go.
In his construction role, he recruited day laborers, and they often-required transportation is the explanation I read as to the stop. I can hear you now….’Chris, that’s just what he said as all criminals lie!” Yup and THAT is role of due process of law to determine….what is true, versus accused or lied.
But don’t let YOUR version of what happened (even though you don’t really know) stop you from being an ugly person.
Chris, you have way too much time on your hands. Get a life!
Fact checking is fun.
Couldn’t agree more
Okay, Chris, you have made your positions well known:
You didn’t and don’t care that Biden’s open borders allowed 15 million illegals to come into our country illegally, with many trafficking in fentanyl killing close to a million people.
It appears that you have little concern for the safety of our communities, given your apparent indifference to the threat posed by illegal murderers and rapists.
You seem to believe that entering our country illegally is not a violation of U.S. law.
You’ve made it clear that you’re not concerned about the significant financial burden on taxpayers, who are forced to spend billions of dollars on illegals.
You are downright shameful, and you don’t care.
You clearly have no idea what I believe. We had too much immigration under Biden / We need to actually fix the immigration system with updated laws versus ignoring laws and human rights to fix the symptoms of the problem / Due process of law is what makes America Great. That’s what I believe.
Some clarifying points if you dare read them. (I typed slowly and loudly so you could understand them)
The borders weren’t open. Biden also deported a record number of people that crossed the border illegally (without breaking the law). His mistake was thinking congress would actually fix the problem by updating the immigration system that has been broken for decades. He should have used the executive orders he used after the bill failed much earlier. So much for believing conservatives would work together with democrats to fix real problems versus just worry about their hold on power.
Show me any evidence that crime rates spiked in the US as a result of immigration? All conservatives have is random stories of a handful of awful crimes committed by an immigrant here or there. Show me the crime wave. You can’t, because it doesn’t exist. But you scream, “what about that one guy who did such awful things?” Crime and violence occur in this country every day, so unless you can magically close the border and allow no one in, awful crimes by a few random immigrants will continue……BUT at a lesser rate than by people actually born in the US.
To put it in MAGA language: So, unless you want to stop all crime and death in the US by making all weapons and any act of ‘potential’ violence or violent speech illegal, sit down and shut up with the cry me a river with your fake news about the immigrant crime wave that doesn’t exist. Conservatives don’t care about violence. What was it Trump said about the last school shooting? Oh right “it happens”.
Entering the country illegally is a crime. A misdemeanor. Certainly not worthy of sending people to a foreign max security prison without due process of law. Anyone that supports that is un-American and doesn’t value the Constitution of the United States.
Immigrants add to the economy. There is certainly a local financial burden as immigrants attempt to settle but long-term, every study shows that immigrants work, pay taxes and have a net benefit to the economy. I can provide sources if you actually care but I assume you don’t.
So quit your strawman take on what I believe and change the channel from your conservative propaganda and get a life. If you really cared, you would realize that immigrants are what make America great. Always have and always will. Yes, we need to improve our immigration laws, but republicans refused as they need their boogeyman in order to scare their ignorant / bigoted voters into keeping them in power.
But you be you
Chris, you make Biden sound like a functional President. That is a huge leap in anyone’s imagination.
As Dems and Chris have touted during the last four years, “no one is above the law.” Now, a bunch of activist judges, who were violating the law by harboring illegal and criminal immigrants, have been arrested.
Now CNN and Chris are crying foul.
Only a conservative would claim that courts are acting outside the law. Admit that you just don’t like the laws and your dear leader is actually breaking the law. If you don’t like the laws, change them with legislation. Oh right. Trump can’t negotiate with common congress.
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