Politics > Politics-USA > MUST READ/PASS ON: Bush'S AG Gonzalez HIDING data on violent illegal alien criminals from U.S. citizens
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MUST READ/PASS ON: Bush'S AG Gonzalez HIDING data on violent illegal alien criminals from U.S. citizens |
Headline (full report below):
"Court to hear arguments on criminal immigrant data
Journalists want information on migrant convicts who weren't deported;
U=2ES. says no"
It seems Bush's Attorney General, MeCha alumnus Alberto "For The
Race, everything; for those outside The Race, nothing" (that's MeCha's
well-known official motto) Gonzalez -- who recently spent untold
thousands of Americans' tax dollars to scour Mexico for an illegal
alien drug smuggler, who he then brought to the U.S. and provided with
"free" medical care in return for the drug smuggler's testimony against
the U.S. Border Patrol agents who shot him (as he transported a ton of
marijuana into the U.S.) s trying to hide from the American People
damning data on the presence in their country of huge numbers of
violent and dangerous illegal alien felons.
Remember: just last year "Mexico's Most Wanted" Alfredo R=EDos Galeana
-- an horrifically violent murderer, kidnapper and bank robber -- was
discovered living literally blocks away from the self-proclaimed
illegal alien "sanctuary city" of Maywood near Los Angeles.1
So, too, was yet ANOTHER of "Mexico's Most Wanted" murderers, illegal
alien Julio Ernesto Cobian-Ariaza -- convicted of attempted murder in
the U.S. as well as two murders and two attempted murders in Mexico --
finally captured ... in Dublin, Ohio just two weeks ago.2
Likewise, illegal alien Jose Raul Pena* (aka Jose Raul Lemos) -- the
owner of a used car lot specializing in selling vehicles to people not
even permitted to drive -- who last year engaged in a shootout with the
LAPD while holding one of his many illegitimate babies to his chest as
a human shied a previously-deported violent felon.3
References:
1=2E
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050808-9999-1n8fugitive.html
2=2E
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3D13939
3=2E http://michellemalkin.com/immigration/2005/07/17/02:33.pm
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/10/17/17immigfelo=
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Court to hear arguments on criminal immigrant data
Journalists want information on migrant convicts who weren't deported;
U=2ES. says no.
By Rebecca Carr
WASHINGTON BUREAU
October 17, 2006
WASHINGTON - A federal court of appeals will hear arguments today in
a case that has broad implications in the debate over illegal
immigration and the public's right to know about illegal immigrant
convicts who have not been deported, as required by law.
Cox Newspapers is asserting that the Justice Department should release
the names, birth dates and identity numbers of illegal immigrants who
have served prison time for serious crimes, including child
molestation, manslaughter, drug dealing and drunken driving.
Cox, which publishes the Austin American-Statesman, hopes to use the
data to show how many illegal immigrant convicts are slipping back into
communities undetected rather than being deported to their native
countries, as federal law requires. Cox revealed in a published report
four years ago that hundreds of felons in Georgia were never picked up
by immigration officials after serving their sentences.
The U.S. Justice Department says it has turned over some of the
information requested by Cox under the Freedom of Information Act,
which requires federal agencies to disclose government records to the
public. The department gave Cox information about the convicts' native
countries, dates they were taken into custody and dates of release,
according to legal briefs filed in federal court.
But the release of personal information such as full names, dates of
birth, immigrant registration numbers and FBI numbers would invade the
privacy of convicted illegal immigrants and serve no public interest,
Justice Department lawyers wrote in legal briefs.
The case is important because it raises the question of whether illegal
immigrants should be granted the same privacy protections that citizens
and legal residents have. Legal experts also say it illustrates how the
federal government resists complying with disclosure requirements when
it has embarrassing statistics to hide.
The lawsuit was filed by the Washington bureau of Cox Newspapers, which
publishes 17 daily and 25 weekly newspapers.
U=2ES. District Judge Richard Leon issued a summary judgment ruling Sept.
27, 2005, in favor of the Justice Department's decision to turn down
Cox's request for personal information about the illegal immigrant
convicts.
In that decision, Leon wrote that the privacy interest of the convicted
illegal immigrants "far outweighs the public interest that might be
served from disclosing this information."
Cox is appealing that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit, saying that the public has the right to
know whether the government has been derelict in its duty to deport
convicts who are in the country illegally. The public also has the
right to know whether the convicts have repeated their crimes,
according to Cox lawyers Jonathan Hart and Michael Kovaka.
The Cox lawyers argue that the lower court failed to identify the harm
that would come from disclosing the names of the convicted felons who
evaded deportation.
"Established notions of privacy confirm that criminals generally have
no legitimate privacy interest in limiting public knowledge of their
crimes," Hart and Kovaka wrote in a brief filed with the court.
Congress specifically excluded illegal immigrants from the protections
given to citizens and legal residents in the Privacy Act, they wrote.
The case is important to the public because the information in the
government database reveals that federal immigration officials are
failing to properly execute the law, Kovaka said in an interview.
"At the very least, this is an egregious inability of the government to
fulfill its own obligations under the law, and it is endangering the
public," Kovaka said.
Cox's quest for information about illegal immigrants goes back about
four years.
On Dec. 15, 2002, the Cox Washington bureau published an article in the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution that revealed that 20 percent of the
illegal immigrants who had been in Georgia's prison system were set
free instead of being deported.
At least eight of the criminals were convicted of molesting children.
Others were caught dealing drugs. Others were sent to prison for
robbery.
The Cox reporters wanted to know whether the problem extended beyond
Georgia.
The Cox Washington bureau filed a request under the Freedom of
Information Act on Sept. 12, 2003, seeking records from the Justice
Department about the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which
keeps data on illegal immigrants in the prison system.
But the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that privacy protections extend to
personally identifying information and encompass criminal convictions
that are a matter of public record, Justice Department lawyers wrote in
a legal brief.
The release of additional information would permit the public to
connect the records with individuals, the Justice Department argued,
creating a clearly unwarranted invasion of their privacy. One of the
department's main arguments against disclosure is the possibility of
error: that a person would be wrongly identified as an illegal
immigrant.
Open government and some legal experts disagree with the ruling.
It "defies logic" that people who are in the United States illegally
and have been convicted of serious crimes have a privacy interest that
outweighs the public's right to know what happens to them when they are
released, said Jane Kirtley, a Freedom of Information Act expert and a
law professor at the University of Minnesota.
In Texas, the prison system does not have definitive figures on the
number of illegal immigrants in its lockups at any given time.
But during a congressional hearing last summer, state Department of
Criminal Justice Inspector General John Moriarty estimated that at
least 9,600 of the state's 152,000 inmates in 2005 were illegal
immigrants. That included 6,600 prisoners with Immigration and Customs
Enforcement "detainers" on their record and about 3,000 with federal
deportation orders.
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
www.predatoryaliens.com
www.immigrationshumancost.org
www.daylaborers.org
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather Mac Donald
www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
See the COLO$$AL CO$T$ of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.immigrationcounters.com
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.SaveOurState.org
www.escapingjustice.com
Two of MANY cops murdered by illegals:
www.deputydavidmarch.com=20
www.kriseggle.org
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