U.S. Releases Hundreds Of Illegal Aliens From Terrorist Nations

Judicial Watch

In a reprehensible move for an agency charged with protecting the nation,the Department of Homeland Security has released nearly 500 illegalimmigrants—who remain fugitives—from terrorist-sponsoring countries andothers known to present a danger to the U.S.

The appalling information was revealed this week by a conservative news publicationthat obtained government records under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

The records show that from 2007 to 2009, the Department of HomelandSecurity caught and released 481 illegal aliens from nations designatedby the State Department as sponsors of terrorism or "countries ofinterest." The dangerous illegal immigrants remain fugitives whosewhereabouts are unknown, according to an Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) database accessed by the news group. All came fromfour nations that sponsor terrorism—Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba—orcountries determined by the U.S. government to present a threat. Thoseinclude Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Pakistan,Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.

 

The information obtained in the public records request includes the date that each illegalimmigrant was taken into custody by the federal government, which ICEjurisdiction arrested them, the date they were released, the status oftheir case and other personal details about the alien. The recordsspecifically state that there are 481 "active" cases for "fugitives"from the four state sponsors of terror and nine of the 10 "countries ofinterest."

 

Cuba has the most with 137, followed by Nigeria (97), Pakistan (87) and Lebanon (34). Iran and Iraq have 29 and 26respectively and Somalia 22. The rest include Somalia (22), Sudan (14),Syria (13) and Yemen and Algeria with eight each. Afghanistan has fourand Saudi Arabia, where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from, has two.

 

ICE justifies their release by explaining that the immigration detentionsystem can only accommodate a portion of the 1.6 million aliens beingprocessed in the country. Everyone can't be detained, so "we have toprioritize who we put in detention," says an ICE official. Apparentlythe U.S. government doesn't consider it a priority to keep undocumentednationals from terrorist-sponsoring nations from roaming freelythroughout the country.

[Louis McCarten]

And this same department would have no qualms whatever about locking any Americans up for condemning Obama's policies for being Marxist, radically Islamic/jihadist, corrupt, or illegitimate (and they are all those things and more). These DOHS folks might even shoot you without so much as due process (it's that pesky d*mn US Constitution again...and they can't have THAT can they?!?).

If you were to challenge Obama's eligibility to be the POTUS, the DOHS officials would lock you up for sure. With Barack Hussein Ocommunist's blessings.