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Rep. Ted Poe Sounds Alarm After Murders by Illegals Who Were Blocked From Deportation by Home Countries

Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:36pm by Jason Howerton
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Ted Poe Argues U.S. Policy Allows Criminal Aliens Blocked From Deportation By Home Countries to Walk Free, Commit Murder

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Due to a very questionable U.S. policy, thousands of criminal aliens from countries like Pakistan, Cuba, Mexico, China and Vietnam remain free to commit additional crimes because their home nations won’t take them back, Fox News reports.

Based on a 2001 Supreme Court decision, U.S. immigration officials are only allowed to hold someone for six months after their incarceration. If the immigrant’s home country refuses to take back their national, the U.S. is required to let them walk — no matter what crime they have committed.

While some lawmakers are attempting to correct the problem by punishing nations that won’t take back their own criminals, the Obama administration and several Democrats in Congress are blocking punitive legislation, advocating that the State Department handle the issue through diplomatic measures.

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) wants to change the law to include the withholding of visas to countries that refuse to take back their nationals.

“I don’t know why the State Department seems to take the side of foreign countries over our own American interest in the United States,” Poe said, urging the U.S. to tell those countries: “Look, you take these people back or the consequence is going to be no visas for your nation.”

More than 50,000 criminal illegal aliens ordered deported remain in the U.S.

Poe says there were three particularly gruesome crimes committed by illegal aliens that brought the issue to his attention:

In June, a judge sentenced 22-year-old Shafiqul Islam from Bangladesh for the murder of 73-year-old Lois Decker. Before murdering Decker, Islam served a year in prison for sexually assaulting a child. After his release from prison, a judge ordered Islam be deported, however, Bangladesh would not take him back. So he remained in the United States and went on to kill a U.S. citizen.
Binh Thai Luc, 35, was a career criminal who spent eight years in a California prison when a judge ruled he be deported. Vietnam refused to take him back, so he was released onto the streets of San Francisco. He would go on to allegedly bludgeon to death a family of five in March of 2012.
In Boston, a Cambodian thug stabbed and beat 16-year-old Ashton Cline-McMurray to death with a golf club. The boy suffered from cerebral palsy and was attacked while on his way home from a football game. After striking a plea deal in 2003, Loeun Heng was supposed to be deported last year following his release from prison. Instead, his country refused to take him back and he was cut loose in the U.S. He remains free.

Fox News has more:

But these cases caught Poe’s attention. His first bill introduced last year refused any visas — student, business or tourist — to any country that refused to repatriate their criminals. That bill went nowhere, opposed by the travel industry, the administration and Democrats in Congress

Back again in the House Immigration Subcommittee, Poe is trying again. This year, his bill only applies to visas for diplomatic staff from countries that refuse deported nationals. But many Democrats believe even that is too aggressive.

“What Poe’s bill will do is throw a monkey wrench into diplomatic relations. It is a nonstarter for that reason,” says immigration attorney Dave Leopold. “It makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the secretary of State and the secretary of Homeland Security to make intelligent decisions about when to stop issuing visas to countries that refuse to take their criminal alien deportees.”

Poe argues that the State Department already retains the power to withhold visas from offending nations but has only used it once in 2005 against the small country of Guyana, who then agreed to take back its 100 citizens. His current bill in committee would make the sanctions mandatory.

“These people don’t go back. They stay here. They commit crimes. And the countries that are responsible for them don’t do anything about it. It’s time the United States do something about it and hold these countries accountable,” Poe added. “They aren’t going to have any choice if we pass this law.”

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Comments (58)

RightUnite
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 5:33am
All right… We now know who to blame for these attacks and deaths. This administration…. I hope the Romney team sees this!
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JInxed
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:56am
Letting the state department handle it would be great if they could , but the State department is a joke,they’ve not handled anything. They have alienated our allies, supported those efforts to undermine our country and distracted us from being the leader expected in world. I don’t believe they would act in our best interest in this case. we’d have a better shot at turning them over to the Minutemen in AZ. Because they do the Jobs that the Government refuses to do.
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Chuck Stein
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:18am
I wonder if these criminals were released to boarding facilities that are really proximate to the residences of certain (or all) supreme court justices and immediate family members of supreme court justices. Would that have any effect on a rehearing of the issue? Just wondering.
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SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 1:32am
Send them to Guantanamo.
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- Zipit
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:36am
  Hell no! We’d have to pay for that!!! I say we begin the practice of “HALO DEPORTATION”. Push them out of a C-130 at 40,000 feet over their miserable little country’s, where their pathetic little air forces can’t reach us. Tell them to open their chute when they can make out the squalor that they will once again be living in!!!! Adventuresome I think!!! (High altitude low open.)
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Tom70
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 12:50am
Well isn’t it obvious Obama needs the illegal vote, they are his socialist army from below the border. What was it $495 bucks gets you American citizenship for a day and that day just happens to be election day. What a crock this fool needs to be euthanized or at the minimum deported to one of his Muslim 3rd world sh..t holes he is so enamored with. I’ll give you @+$20 dollars that the mooch moochel would leave his nasty ass in the dust and be pissed off because she couldn’t take a Million dollar trip to some place besides gaza.
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Azaleamom
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:27pm
How ’bout we just do a flyover their “country of origin” with a parachute strapped to their backs and give them a good push!! Than they can’t be refused.
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- Elena2010
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:42pm
  Works for me. Oh, give ‘em an MRE for flights lasting longer than 6 hrs.
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- ICRedifURBlue
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:52pm
  ………..skip the parachute……..
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- Apple Bite
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:38am
  Taxpayers paid for that parachute….Make the bastards nosedive.
  
  Oh yeah, hey Compassionate sympathizers, hows this working out for ya??
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:22pm
And……there’s a 68% chance they were on welfare……….isn’t unbridled liberalism great …..
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garbagecanlogic
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:12pm
Give them a sack lunch, a gallon of water and a fishing pole. Then sit them down on a deserted island somewhere and they can fend for themselves.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
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Listen_then_think
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:09pm
Typical obama progressive traitors. Democrats are such losers I hope some of these “should have been deported illegals” AFFECTS some of their loved ones, only then will they pull their heads out and then try to do something about it. Stupid morons.
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Daveed
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:52pm
Our government is murdering us one by one by one. Taking our land, our jobs, our wealth, our peace of mind, aiding and abetting terrorists, arming terrorists and we just sit and take it. Not 100 corrupted politicians life is worth 1 American patriot. It is deplorable. They use to tar and feather and ride them out on a rail in the good old days.
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noland
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:31pm
Send em to granny nancy she’ll welcome them with open arms and give-em lotts of health care housing and all the soddimites they can handle. They better not be one of those darn smokers cause thats one thing she won’t put up with in her state.
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hayesstephen
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:57pm
If they refuse to take back their thrash, withhold the Aid we send them. When it comes to our safety why is all ways Liberals who fight with all their might against it. White Liberal Trash. Its about damn time someone is thinking and wanting to get a law that protects U.Citizens and not foreign criminals. It won’t go anywhere of course, the right will fight it tooth and nail. The breaking point is getting closer every day. Get off your behinds and vote!!!
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 8:06am
  We have laws to protect us. They are just not being enforced.
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- EqualJustice
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:09am
  Granny you are SO RIGHT! This administration is so corrupt. Laws were NOT made to be broken.
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:56pm
Wait….. The Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security have been making intelligent decisions? LOL. Wow, I didn’t know that.
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JQCitizen
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:54pm
The current administration is EVIL, ANTI-AMERICAN, and PUTRID. May God have Mercy on us, Mercy, I say; For Mercy is Un-earned favor, and whether or not our Deeds as a nation deserve it, we certainly are being “oppressed” and “terrorized” by our own leaders, and are in sore need of it.
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- americansfightingforcommonsense
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:01pm
  …”They aren’t going to have any choice if we pass this law.” ??? Excuse me, but I believe that this administration has refusing to enforce our laws, unless they happen to fit their agenda! Wake Up America! We are under attack by our own Left Wing Government!
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woodyee
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:52pm
Vietnamese, Cambodian, Bangladeshi…

Why these three?

Because the list of murderers imported by pro-illegal alien business and politicians from Mexico would overwhelm the servers…
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- Elena2010
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:43pm
  Mexico takes their trash back.
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Maxim Crux
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:45pm
Let them walk by putting them in a dingy out in the middle of the pacific ocean.
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Carefreeflyer
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:43pm
This is insane. If a few Senators or Congressmen lost a family member to an illegal immigrant then maybe they would get off their pathetic asses and actually solve this huge mess. Could an American citizen commit a murder and get released? I think not. Why should an illegal?
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scout n ambush
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:09pm
The U.N decides who the U.S gives refugee status to and these are just their and obamas kind of people .Future democratic voters islamists /progressives /communists / mexican drug runners ala raza
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dublinthewagons
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:04pm
Sharia law. Execute them and then give’um a fare trial.
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- Ramrod64
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:38pm
  takem to the gun range and use them for live fire.
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iblvingd
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:03pm
Ever heard of a parachute….it would be a quick and easy way to drop them off in their own back yards!

Government house cleaning is way over due here!
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:29pm
  Some of them din’t deserve a parachute for what they have done. Just dump them out of a plane with a note pinned to them.
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- Desertviper
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:30am
  Is it possible to obtain their release dates? If so, I have a few new toys that need to be sighted in. These vermin would be perfect targets and save me money! They are nothing but trash so no harm no foul! Just doing my community a free service.
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Melvin Spittle
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:59pm
Cuba emptied their prisons on the condition the prisoners leave Cuba and flood the US with criminals. Most are still here and have been in and out of prison since.
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- Elena2010
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:45pm
  The Mariletos! I remember it well — happened under Carter, I think.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:49pm
Simple solution, we dump them in San Francisco, give them as many guns as they want, a place to live and send them money to stay there. Lets see how long that would last until San Fran decides it doesn’t want to be a sanctuary city anymore.

The libs would become NIMBY verrrry quickly.
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- oldguy49
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:01pm
  visa’s…..how about we quit giving billions of dollars to these countrys ………………
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- AnAmericanRaven
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:11pm
  I love that idea, yes it wouldn‘t be long before the lib’s in San Fran would be screaming, “Get them out of my town.”
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:14pm
  I am for cutting off all foriegn aid for any country that doesn’t support our values or policies. The way I see it, if you don’t like us or want to take “YOUR” citizen back. You don’t need our money. Besides, why don’t we just do a Prisoner swap, we will give you your citizens back you give ours back, that way you don’t have to pay for someone elses criminal.
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- Pink_Panther_Party
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:24pm
  Hey Darmok,
  
  A guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with a first aid kit like that! But don’t forget to throw in an introductory pack of “South Beach Bath Salts” and a coupon for free anchovy pizza. Teaching those SanFranSicko perverts how to chow down could make ‘em bloody thirsty……
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:45pm
  Maybe some A1 sauce and a bottle of vino.
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- Zipit
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:38am
  DARMOK! We can use “fast and furious guns”! Great plan,
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Slayer
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:47pm
The alarm has been sounded!!!
Nothing will get done.
As usual.
But at least the alarm has been sounded.
Or something…
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- EqualJustice
  Posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:08am
  Don’t worry, Holder is on this one, too. HAHAHA
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bdandsl
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:45pm
Why do we need to have their permission? Put them on a flight and dump them inside their border and leave. Either that or shoot them.
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Steelheadisadouche
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:43pm
Drop them over Cuba at 3000 feet and 170 mph. Or CA, MD, IL.
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