Bloody consequences of open borders: The kidnapping and murder of Zina Linnik
7/14 7:27am update. Via the AP…”Adhahn, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., could not have been deported for the incest conviction because it was not an aggravated felony and it was his first offense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Friday. But a 1992 conviction for intimidation with a dangerous weapon could have made him deportable, and Adhahn was being held this week on an immigration complaint. He also was charged with failing to register as a sex offender.”
Could have. Should have. Didn’t.
Section 1227(a)(2)(C) of Title 8 provides:
Any alien who at any time after admission is convicted under any law of purchasing, selling, offering for sale, exchanging, using, owning, possessing, or carrying, or of attempting or conspiring to purchase, sell, offer for sale, exchange, use, own, possess, or carry, any weapon, part, or accessory which is a firearm or destructive device (as defined in section 921(a) of Title 18) in violation of any law is deportable.
So much for the Office Detention and Removal’s goal (PDF):
The Detention and Deportation Program, now the Office of Detention and Removal (DRO), was established in a 1955 reorganization of the INS to carry out a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The Alien and Sedition Acts included the earliest deportation legislation, which empowered the President to order the departure from the United States of all aliens deemed dangerous. Legislation since then has expanded the detention and removal operations and redefined the classes of aliens to be deported or excluded.
The basic mission, however, remains the same: Remove all removable aliens.
7/14 12:01am Eastern update: Murder suspect being investigated for other crimes in the Tacoma area
10:45pm Eastern update: More details about Adhan’s immigration and sex offeder status here–Man linked to Zina case: Sex offender who escaped deportation. He was another in a long, long line of deportable criminal aliens who just slipped off the feds’ radar screen. This is the bottom line:
Federal authorities had legal grounds to deport him 17 years ago, after his 1990 conviction for incest. They didn’t. “He escaped our attention,” said Lorie Dankers, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle.
Update: Bad timing award goes to Democrat Washington state governor Christine Gregoire, who is leaving on a trip to lobby for open borders. How politically stupid and insensitive can you be?
Update: More details about Adhahn in the Seattle Times. He was a violent, angry alcoholic. “In 1975, his mother married an American who was serving in the Army’s Special Forces. The family moved first to the United States and then to a military base in Germany. After high school, Adhahn enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving seven years before the rape conviction led to a discharge. He married in 1986 and by 1990 he and his wife had one child. They filed for divorce in 1998, court records show. Adhahn was arrested Monday on an unrelated immigration matter, and was charged Monday with failing to register as a sex offender. Additional information on the immigration charge was not immediately available.”
Update: For crying out loud. SoundPolitics reports that the suspect in Zina’s kidnapping and murder being held on immigration charges is registered to vote in Pierce County, WA. (%**%&$^!!!!
***
I have been following the case of young Zina Linnik’s disappearance in Tacoma, Wash., over the past week, hoping she would be found alive. This is every parent’s worst nightmare–your child snatched by a stranger at your own residence. On July 5th, an Amber Alert was issued. She was last seen in the alley behind her family’s house on July 4th around 9:45 pm. A witness heard a girl scream, looked in the alley and saw an Asian male get into an older gray van in the alley and drive away:
Zina has blonde hair and is four feet ten inches tall. she was last seen wearing a pink t-shirt, pink/orange/yellow capri pants, and red flip-flop sandals. Her hair was in a ponytail. Authorities have only a partial plate number on the van, which includes the numbers 1677. Contact police if you have any information.
A person of interest was detained by local police a few days ago. He’s a 42-year-old sex offender who is being held for failing to register and for an immigration violation. It’s yet another example of the disgraceful, fatal negligence of the feds to track and deport illegal alien criminals–and deportable, convicted legal immigrants imprisoned for committing felonies, like Adhahn–after they serve their sentences:
The man, who is not being identified because he has not been arrested or charged in connection with the disappearance of Zina Linnik, is a Level 1 registered sex offender who was convicted of first-degree incest in Pierce County in 1990.
“We don’t have any other people of interest; we are still looking at all leads,” said police spokesman Mark Fulghum.
The Pierce County man, 42, was arrested Monday after Tacoma police identified him as someone who hadn’t been deported after being convicted of a felony, said Lorie Dankers, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Federal law mandates that all aliens convicted of felonies be deported to their home country.
Dankers couldn’t explain why the man hadn’t been deported after serving prison time. She said immigration officials learned about him from Tacoma police.
Today, the local papers report that Lina’s body has been found–after the alien in custody revealed her location:
“It is with great regret and sorrow that I am informing our community that we have located the body of Zina Linnik,” said Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell, reading from a prepared statement tonight.
Ramsdell said information provided by the suspect led police and FBI investigators to the girl’s body. Court records name the man as 42-year-old Terapon Dang Adhahn, a convicted sex offender who has been in custody on an unrelated immigration matter since Monday. He had not been charged in Zina’s abduction or death as of Thursday night. Ramsdell would not say where the girl’s body was found, other than it was somewhere in Pierce County. “Crime scene investigators are currently processing the scene for evidence as the investigation continues,” he said.
Police outside the family’s home tonight said family members did not want to comment.
…In 1990, he was charged with violently raping a 16-year-old relative, according to court records. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree incest in exchange for completing 60 months of sexual-deviancy counseling. Adhahn was arrested Monday on an unrelated immigration matter, and was charged Monday with failing to register as a sex offender. In his Tacoma home, police found girls underwear and other items, which they said are being tested. He is currently being held at a local federal detention facility, Ramsdell said.
I have reported repeatedly on the government’s failure to track and deport illegal alien criminals and other alien criminals after they serve their prison/jail sentences. I testified about the problem before the Senate in 2004. I highlighted this gross negligence on The O’Reilly Factor here and here.
Still, nothing has been done.
Still, more innocent victims’ lives have been ruined or taken away.
Still, as blogger Patterico continues to expose in his “Deport the Criminals First” series, the body count piles up and Washington looks the other way.
This madness has to end. The open borders lobby has gotten away with denying the problem, hiding behind platitudes, and waging smear jobs instead of confronting the bloody consequences of its malign neglect. I will be asking for your help soon on a campaign to force this issue onto Washington’s radar screen. We need a tracking mechanism to ensure that every convicted criminal alien released from our prisons and jails is flagged and kicked out of the country, as required by existing federal law. We need stiff punishment for state and local jail authorities that fail to comply, and for federal ICE offices that fall down on their jobs.
We need to shut the illegal alien criminal revolving door.
If ever there were an immigration enforcement issue that transcended partisan lines, this is it.
***
Remember the case I noted here last week, about a suspected illegal alien in Tennessee who was caught, released, and reportedly went on to rape a 15-year-old girl? Well, the local sheriff who has been trying to locate the suspect has been sued by illegal aliens complaining that he “racially profiled” them. I kid you not. This is the insanity we are up against.
***
Part of the solution lies with strengthening and expanding the 287(g) program. Heritage recommends:
Section 287(g) of the INA allows the DHS and state and local governments to enter into assistance compacts. Both sides must agree on the scope and intent of the program before it is implemented, which gives states and local communities the flexibility to shape the programs to meet their needs. State and local law officers governed by a §287(g) agreement must receive adequate training and operate under the direction of federal authorities. In return, they receive full federal authority to enforce immigration law, thereby shifting liability to the federal government and providing the officers with additional immunity when enforcing federal laws.
A §287(g) pilot program with the State of Florida could serve as a national model. Florida specifically limits its officers’ civil immigration enforcement to situations in which they are part of a security or counterterrorism operation that is supervised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The Florida program outlines the criteria for selecting the participating officers, including U.S. citizenship, three years of law enforcement experience, and at least an associate’s degree. Selected officers receive intensive training and must pass a final competency exam. The program also establishes ways for people to file grievances against the program and its officers. The Florida initiative demonstrates how to craft a program that meets federal as well as state and local needs.
Building a National Program. As part of a comprehensive border and immigration reform package, Congress should build on the §287(g) pilot program by requiring the DHS to:
Appoint a national spokesperson (a respected and prominent former state or local government or law enforcement official) to promote the program;
Draft a strategy for implementing §287(g) nationwide;
Create a national center for lessons learned and best practices; and
Report to Congress each year on the progress of the program.
Congress should also:
Allow states and cities to use homeland security grants to pay for their participation, including overtime costs for state and local law enforcement agents assisting in federal immigration enforcement investigations;
Provide ICE with sufficient funds to train and supervise up to 5,000 state and local law enforcement officers nationwide over the next two years; and
Require that any participating state or local government must have a stakeholder engagement plan that briefs local communities on the scope and intent of the program and solicits community engagement and involvement in community policing.
Conclusion. Section 287(g) provides protection to states and their law officers while requiring that well-trained officers conduct immigration investigations. It also allows states and local governments to tailor programs to meet their unique circumstances and requirements. Any comprehensive border and immigration security legislation should strengthen and expand programs authorized under §287(g).
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
- Open Borders, and the case of Zina Linnik | BitsBlog
- Bill's Bites
- Another Death that Shouldn’t Have Happened « Tai-Chi Policy
- Ace of Spades HQ
- The American Pundit » Blog Archive » Consequences of An Open-Border Policy
- Free In Idaho! » Blog Archive » How Long Do We Put Up With This?
- Committing crimes that Americans won’t « Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN
- Sonoran Alliance » Wake up Arizona!
- Pirate’s Cove » >>Americans Never Quit » Illegal Involved In Zina Linnik Case
- Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cops name “newcomer” as prime suspect in 12-year-old girl’s murder
- Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian Bloody consequences of open borders: The kidnapping and murder of Zina Linnik «
- 100% Preventable! Failed To Deport Edition! » Freedom Folks
- PAXALLES
- Scared Monkeys Missing Persons Site
- Scared Monkeys
- Geraldo Dead wrong on illegal immigration : 186kpersecond.com
- Four Pointer
- Strangelove » Are you in the US legally?
- Hot Air » Blog Archive » New Jersey attorney general orders cops to start reporting illegal alien suspects to feds
- Mustache Man Gets It Wrong...Again : The American Pundit | News and Opinion With A Conservative View
- someone else\'s game against predators
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: Catch-And-Release
Riehl World View
» Bet: Ratings Fail - Oprah/Obama Christmas Special
Mudville Gazette
» The five-year planNewsBusters.org
» Oprah To Do Primetime Christmas Special With The ObamasRiehl World View
» Dowd: Dem Elites Displeased With Obama As Palin RisesStop The ACLU
» SEALs Charged With Assault for Arresting Top TerroristGay Patriot
» The O So Hip Obama
This breaks my heart. The officials who refuse to flag and remove illegal alien criminals are aiding and abetting.
I guess the lives of our innocent children are the price we pay for keeping the cost of produce low. How appalling!
You know I don’t know how much this has to go on before the people really rise up about this. Before all you leftist lecture me on Americans who do this, yes I know but these illegals don’t belong here in our country and this turd should have been deported. I cannot imagine what her family is dealing with. I guess all we can do for them is pray for them.
Any way Zina’s parents can sue the government for failure to do their duty? It seems that this is the only mechanism that gets their attention. It is shameful that this a) happens, and b) gets no MSM attention as it does not fit their meme.
Gonzales v. Castle Rock suggests the parents won’t be able to sue, IrishEyes. The Supremes held that the police aren’t required to protect any individual even in the presence of an order of protection. I imagine the same “principle” would apply to the government as a whole.
This is truly a horrific injustice. I am so disgusted over the illegal issue; and, yet, our demands are met by politically deaf ears. What must be stopped is the ability for illegals to use our justice system to file lawsuits. How can you reside here illegally and file a civil rights lawsuit? How can illegals lobby our government officials?
Someone must initiate steep lobbying regulations. Lobbyists must reside in the US, a senator or congressman cannot be lobbied by those not their constituents or those not residing in their states. For example, if a company lobbies a congressman that company’s headquarters must be located in his jurisdiction. Maybe after this we can get term limits?
“The officials who refuse to flag and remove illegal alien criminals are aiding and abetting”
And when we start holding them personally accountable, it will get fixed.
These people don’t care, because the cost of their failures are borne by other people. It’s someone else’s child that is murdered or raped. It’s someone else’s car that gets stolen. If we can transfer those costs back to the people who are really responsible, you can bet you’ll never see another crime committed by a felon under a deportation order.
I don’t think anything will happen unless this happens to a Senator’s or other politician’s child.
This story breaks my heart! Our job as parents is hard enough w/o the Govt. making it harder by not getting rid of these inhuman maniacs.
Adding Zina and her family to my prayers…
Parents who lose children due to Illegal’s should get together and file a class action suite against the Federal Government for not meeting there benchmarks. There are 15 Immigration amendments on the books that are not enforced. Governments enforcement would saves Legal American Citizens lives and the lives of there children.
There is no excuse for this. I’ve been consistantly referancing stories about these illegals and the crimes they commit on a private group forum and I have aquired the title of Mrs. Racism. Why can no one see that it’s not about race? It’s about following the law…
You let us know what to do and when to do it and we shall get it done, this travesty has went on far to long and it is time to rid this country of these criminals, I think we have enough criminals who are Americans doing the job we don’t need people coming illegally or overstaying their visa illegally to do these horrendous jobs. Mr President will you see Zina in your nightmares? I hope you and Chertoff and Graham and McCain and Kyl are haunted by the pictures of the victims of illegals that you have allowed to be in this great country.
INSANITY…Most of our governments (Local, State and Federal) pray at the alter of political correctness, while these illegal (and sometimes legal) aliens prey on the weakest in our society. It makes me sick. We have enough scumbags born into this country, without having to add to that number with legal and illegal scumbags. What do we have to do to fix this? Our elected officials and the democratic party are stopping the solution at every turn. We send our border patrol agents to prison for executing our will, because a poor little scum sucking drug runner got shot…boo hoo…maybe we should point these scumbags to the homes of our elected officials…make it a personal issue for these so called “civil servants” and maybe they’d want to fix the problem after one of their loved ones was killed or raped by one of these animals…
Child molesters almost always re-offend. This is why we need Jessica’s Law in every state to keep our children safe from domestic predators. Deportation should prevent further abuses from illegal aliens.
It is now discovered by the folks at Sound Politics that this scumbag, who appears to be a non-citizen, is actually registered to vote in Pierce County! No doubt he was one of the illegitimate votes that put Ms. Gregoire in the Governor’s mansion.
In the past two weeks, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists 21 children from 7 to 17 as being reported missing. I don’t deny that had our laws been followed that Zina Linnik would not have been abducted, but we need to solve the problem of children being kidnapped and exploited by , regardless of their immigration status…
Thanks Bush and Chertoff.
Every parents worst nightmare and to know that it could have been prevented if someone just did their job.
I know people who think they have illegals working for them but they say they gave them some sort of ID so what’s the difference .So many do not see the bigger picture of allowing illegals to stay here.
Nothing can take away the pain of these parents but I will back any campaign you can put together Michelle .
I can’t imagine the pain and hurt suffered by these victims and their families. There is no excuse for these crimes, none. If Bush is pro life why does he not close the border or do not the lives of American children count.
Child abusers should be put to death!
Its freaking insane that nobody in Washington cares about our open boarders!
I’m not optimistic. It’s going to take a significant terrorist attack by an illegal alien criminal before a finger is lifted. Either that, or a Fred Thompson inaugaration.
The incompetence of the federal government constantly amazes me. I don’t think my company would last a month before being sued into liquidation if we exercised the government’s “standard” of care to its’ citizens.
Blood on the hands of all open borders appeasers! Including our President! This makes me sick. When are we going to take our country away from the elites that prefer a frightened populus!!??
Here we go again. It is a total breakdown of the entire system. Do you think they made cities sanctuary cities? To point the finger at them is like sticking your finger in the leaking dam – it is stoooopid and will not fix a thing. The problem existed before Bush and will live on unchallenged well after he is gone.
Example: A registered child molester moved in next to us and we had 4 teen girls. Did the police inform us? No! When I called them and asked them about it they told me that, “it is totally voluntary on the part of the police department to notify citizens.”
Bush and Chertoff my rear.
I am saddened. This has to stop.
Michelle, you can count on me to help you in any way that I can.
And because Congress is in a snit that their bill (the only bill that was possible according to them) didn’t pass, they claim they can do nothing until 2009. How many will die between now and then due to their inaction?
I have suggested numerous times to SUE THE FEDS for not protecting its citizens.
CLASS ACTION SUITS….here we come.
Not to mention the hint of another terrorist attack this summer and STILL OPEN BORDERS? PLEASE explain this illogical non thinking to me.
It’s TIME BUSH to SEAL the borders on BOTH SIDES NOW.
I live in Tacoma. Things like this shake the entire community. I am so saddened by the loss this little girl and her family have experienced.
While I agree that the illegal immigration issue is a big problem in this case, there are other serious problems involved here, too. Western State hospital, which houses one of the largest sex offender treatment programs in the state, routinely ‘loses’ patients and inmates. Some are given furlows and return late or don’t return at all. Others just walk off of the premises. No significant steps have been taken to stop this problem.
Because Pierce County has Western State hospital and McNeil Island penitentiary it becomes a dumping ground for recently released inmates.
The children in our community are always at risk.
As for the voting registration issue? Tacoma/Pierce County have long held the reputation of having the worst voting/elections problems in the state. It wasn’t until the 2004 gubernatorial election that the title was temporarily taken away by Seattle/King County. But don’t fret. I’m sure we’ll regain our title soon. The county auditor is working diligently. It’s only a matter of time.
You are assuming they care about anything except being elected. Did you see Edwards and Hillary eating thir own?
My heart is breaking. I was praying that this wouldn’t be the outcome. Zina was failed by the system, and I’m so sorry.
My God, what a nightmare. I’m so sad and angry because this should not have happened. He should have been deported. The law said to deport him. I for one hope there is a movement for a class action suit against the feds. maybe it will bring this problem into the glaring light of day and show everyone how dangerously foolish we’re being by refusing to enforce immigration laws. My heart goes out to her family. I’m so so sorry for Zina and for them.
MiddleAgedKen~
The Court may have ruled that police/the government have no real obligation to protect a SPECIFIC individual, but in this case, this man could have targeted ANY individual. It just happened to be Zina Linnik who was his victim. Someone in the government (did the local DA fail to inform the INS (this was 1990?) of this deportable offense? Or, was the INS informed and just failed to act? Whoever dropped the ball, the government failed to protect the public at large…
Doing the raping, killing and child molesting most Americans won’t do.
Keep up the pressure, step up the pressure you guys!!!! What can we do to help? Also, just imagine the caliber of the lawyer representing the illegals in the “racial profiling” case!!!! Another also: why is little or nothing being done by our sanctimonious, phony and two-faced pols in DC? They have the mandate!! They have the wherewithal!!! Instead they seem to be fixated on assuring the deaths of the soon to be deserted Iraqui people. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY!!!
I live in the Williamsburg, Virginia area. A couple of years ago, a deaf mute illegal alien from El Salvador, Oswaldo Martinez, assaulted, sodomized, raped and murdered a 16 year old girl, Brittany Binger. Because Martinez was unable to hear and speak, he was presumed to be unable to understand the charges and their implications. Therefore, he was not tried but put into the court system so that he could learn to communicate with his lawyers. The insanity of this judicial game is that Martinez was able to get from El Salvador to Williamsburg, Virginia, and had employment, transportation and living quarters in the area. I think any sane person would conclude that he knew how to communicate when he wanted or needed something.
As of this date, Martinez has still not been tried and no trial date set. If he can ever learn to communicate, which is doubtful once he learns that Virginia is a death penalty state, a trial can commence.
Here’s a link to a news article from a different county in Washington State where a public school is switching to monolingual Spanish.
http://www.wenworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/EDU/704110338/1001
As God is cradling little Zina in his arms I like the rest of you am reduced to tears. Why do we allow this to happen? Are our government officials, past and present, who bear the direct responsibility so heartless they don’t care? Do they try to rationalize their actions and deny their complicity?
I would like for all those complicit in this and past tragedies to be the recipients of a campaign to submit the photos and stories of victims of their illegal alien murderers. The list would include “W”, Kennedy, Chertoff, Graham, Kyl, McCain, Clinton(s), and all our elected officials who perpetrate the open borders policy.
Lord please forgive me for my sins and let those responsible burn in hell.
God bless our troops, America and Americans.
I sure Bush feels the sacrifice is worth it to achieve the free flow of inexpensive labor into the United States to lower the wages of the American working people.
Bush is obviously quite willing to gamble that he will not be burned by terrorists coming across the Mexican border and killing Americans. So much for the “War on Terror.” If Bush were fighting a “War on Terror,” would he start with open borders? It’s always wiser to observe what people do than listen to what they say.
the oregon gov can be reached here: http://www.capwiz.com/nra/webreturn/?url=http://www.governor.wa.gov
Illegals have become the new war on terror ….sad to say.
We have to take a stand and DEMAND the borders be sealed and other illegals be deported. It won’t cost as much as the war and Iraq I dare to say – to round them up.
Help us Michelle- to take action across the USA! Tell us what we can do.
What is the point of our troops dying in Iraq on a daily basis, doing THEIR best to protect us and our freedom, when the southern border is an open gateway to anyone who wants to come in and kill us, aided and abetted by our elected officials?
There MUST be a way for people to sue those officials who are looking out for illegals and not their own constituents. Americans are dying at the hands of these illegals, and our government doesn’t care.
Since the failure of the disastrous immigration bill, has one inch of the wall been built?
Illegal aliens who rape and kill or just steal identities and commit fraud are just doing the crimes Americans don’t want to do, is that it? DISGUSTING, pathetic politicians and ‘rights’ groups who block efforts to enforce our borders and deport criminals. I’d love to deport a few traitors like Ted Kennedy, too.
I was grabbed once as a child while playing outside. The perp put his hand over my mouth and began to pull me. I managed to escape, but there is not much that compares to the fright…it is still vivid after 50 years.
I can only hope that the last terror filled moments of this baby’s life is duplicated and put upon the piece of scum that did this.
Oh, excuse me. He is only accused, but happened to direct authorities to the child’s body.
Guilty. Time to punish.
Michelle Malkin – “It’s yet another example of the disgraceful, fatal negligence of the feds to track and deport illegal alien criminals after they serve their sentences”
And the peso stops at la Casa Blanca.
I don’t know whether to CRY , SCREAM or run around crazy in circles??????
These people are DESTROYING OUR LIVES.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ALIENS ARE THE ONES SPLITTING UP FAMILIES- FOREVER!!!!!
I think that Soapbox has hit on the key issue in this instance. This issue is not one of illegal immigration, although in this instance it is. The issue that failed the Linniks is dealing with sex offenders.
This little girl deserves justice, as do all the victims of the no-borders policies.
WAIT.
They might deport him NOW. Before they indict him.
Unfrickin believable
My respects to the family, and this beautiful little girl who was murderd by a monster.
Watch, the person within immigration who is responsible, will get a bonus, and promotion.
purplepeep – “the no-borders policies”
The fish rots from the head down.
The local NEWSIES won’t identify him as an
only saying he is currently held by immigration…
shame on them!
#47 Shooter… unfortunately true.
That bastard!
Reporter: Mr President, is it true that you have decided to put a fence along the border with Mexico after all? And a follow up question sir, if so what will it look like?
George W. Bush: That is a very good question and yes I have. What will it look like? Well it will run the full length of the border and have special security gates every 100 feet.
All the security gates will have on them:
1) Press one for Spanish (with a response of “Welcome Amigo”).
2) Press two for Arabic (with a response of “Welcome honored member of the Religion of Peace”).
3) Press three for English (with a response of “Go to Hell you damed bigoted nativist who does not want what is right for America!!!”).
One fact about this horrible case demonstrates how ridiculous the notion is that opponents of CIR are against all immigrants: poor Ms. Linnick and her family are legal immigrants. They’re from Ukraine.
BOFH~
Yes, there is also an issue with sex offenders. And drunk drivers. And rapists. And…
The point is, those who commit these crimes who shouldn’t even BE here just compound the problem. If the perp had been deported after he’d been convicted of raping his 16-year old stepsister back in ‘90 (I think), he wouldn’t have been there on July 4th to abduct Zina, and she would still be alive, and with her family.
Same for rape victims who were raped by illegal aliens. Same for accident victims where the drunk driver was an illegal alien. Same for other murder victims whose murderer was an illegal alien. Pick any crime where the perp was an illegal alien. If the illegal alien hadn’t been here in the first place, the victim likely would never have become a victim…
Miss Ladybug–
I think the point of the decision (there is a similar case from DC, the name of which escapes me) is that no individual can make a claim for protection against the government. Only “society as a whole” is entitled to protection. Whatever that means.
We should not tolerate an illegal government.
Michelle and Allahpundit,
While I whole-heartedly support all your dilligence to expose these illegal alien criminals in our midst, you may have made mistake in this case.
On Fox news, Geraldo just said that
1. the stories that he is an illegal immigrant are wrong.
2. And that he is not being held by Federal authorities on a immigration violation, but rather on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
Now we all know where Geraldo’s bias lies, so I am taking it with a grain of salt. But I have seen other West Coast media coverage today that also confirms the 2 part about the sex offender charges.
That he is a naturalised immigrant also conforms to some of the inconsistancies in the facts we have heard, e.g. Parental naturalization decades ago, Army service, etc.
the blame lies with the President, the Congress, that corrupt piece of crap governor (Gregoire), most likely the mayor and any ninny that thinks open borders is an acceptable policy. Many of our cities are safe havens for illegals (and criminals)…many of the police are forbidden to ask the status of criminals. If I were the poor little girls parents, I’d be hiring the biggest shyster in the U.S. to go after all the people who let this murdering scum slip between the cracks.
Child rapist,murderer…why are we even talking about deportation in this case?Enforce existing laws,and apply the only correct sentence on this waste of life.
Carefull folks, we may have it all wrong, although we would not be the only ones.
John Gibson on FNC also just said he is not an illegal immigrant.
He then steered the discussion to legal pundits about whether the citizenship of a naturalized immigrant can ever be revoked.
According to the great Geraldo, (just ask him), the guy was a naturalized American citizen, so this has nothing to do with immigration. I do think though, that even if he is naturalized he should have had his citizenship revoked and been deported after the 1990 incest conviction.
Anyone know for sure what his status was vs what the law says about deportation??
Fox is reporting the “alleged kidnapper, rapist” was a naturalized citizen – we’ll see Geraldo’s tears on 5 o’clock “news”….am I the only one that is darned sick and tired of Geraldo’s lecturing? Pox on his house. Before this is over the media will paint the “naturalized citizen” as the victim since no one was generous enough to pay for his therapy as well as a long list of other things society failed to do for him!
feralcaat
I personally think that all of the computerized telephone answering systems should work as follows:
1) Please press 1 for any language other than English. (This selection is then followed by a dial tone.)
Just a thought …
I am looking, but no updates yet. I did find that many of the newspaper media stories state that they could not provide details on the supposed immigration arrest.
In regards to immigration, Sorry Charlie, once you are an American that can not be revoked. And with good reason the Founding Fathers and other early lawmakers saw fit to make that so. We don’t want the government to hold that kind of power over us based upon crimes that they may feel the need to designate.
Maybe what we should be considering is whether there should be a probation period for those approved for citizenship. And make sure that is included in any future immigration reform legislation.
Whatever you think of Geraldo he may be right here. And he would have been the first talking head to correctly identify this as not an immigration issue.
Hells bells, he recieved 5 years of state paid sex offender counsling and was still classified as a danger. What more can we do?
The fault lay with our CJ sytem in the 1990s. There was no way to extend his sentence or monitor him after this was discovered. Sentencing parameters and laws in the 1990s did not have a means to account for this type of sociopathic sex offender likely to committ more horrid crimes.
That is changing state by stae.
This case should have nothing to do with illegal immigration if it is proved that he is a naturalized citizen. Sorry once you become a citizen then you follow the laws of this country. Which means if the guy is proved guilty then give him the chair (figuratively speaking… I know the due process needs to be followed).
Elect Tom Tancredo to president’s office 2008: http://www.teamtancredo.com/ He will clean up all the corruption regarding illegal immigration. Tom Tancredo is a true American patriot, not a sell-out.
This is Tom Tancredo: http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/12/photo-of-the-day-8/
Visit his campaign blog: http://www.teamtancredo.com/
Make a cntribution, vote for Tom Tancredo and save America.
DesertLover said:
“I personally think that all of the computerized telephone answering systems should work as follows:
1) Please press 1 for any language other than English. (This selection is then followed by a dial tone.)
Just a thought …”
You have got me convinced, now you must work on El Presidente!
1) Please press 1 for any language other than English. (This selection is then followed by a howling ear piercing whistle and then a dial tone.)
#56
I can see three possibilities:
1) Geraldo is correct.
2) They guy did not file the paperwork to become a citizen after he had served x years in the Army (x being 2 or 3 or 4 years – I am not sure off the top of my head which).
3) Before the x years he did something that prevented him from getting citizenship, but somehow not enough to get kicked out of the Army.
What muddies things up abit, sxs, is according to just about every story – “He was jailed this week on an immigration complaint and was being held at a federal immigration detention center in Tacoma.” (AP at 4:25 PM)
many other articles mention deportation, e.g. -
“Adhahn was later transferred to federal immigration detention in Tacoma because he could face deportation for his 1990 incest conviction, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said earlier this week. But he also has been charged in Pierce County with failing to register as a sex offender, and would face that charge before being deported.”
12-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped July 4 Found Dead
This sounds like it might fit into the bigger grand scheme of problems with immigration, legal and otherwise. Especially the enforcement issues.
Three good sounding assumptions there, feralcat.
(Though it would be rare for Geraldo to be correct!)
Michelle, we also need term limits for all of our friends in Congress. When common sense doesn’t prevail, maybe having the chance to clean house might get their attention.
purplepeep “Three good sounding assumptions there, feralcat.
(Though it would be rare for Geraldo to be correct!)”
Well he found Jimmy Hoffa, didn’t he!!!
This is life on the Mexico border regions, border states, that doesn’t get National news attention.
Maybe some of you Liberals want this in your own neighborhoods, and your own homes, too.
Perhaps this family should sue the government for not protecting their daughter (a legal citizen) from the this animal, an illegal alien.
On a road trip with my friend today she was telling me about a friend of her’s whose husband has a landscaping business. She said they are very careful and try their darnest not to hire illegals, well one got through (with a fake id and SS card). This illegal got hurt on the job, sued the company and will now receive workmans comp for a very long time. Only in America people!!!!!
That’s right! In Al Capone’s vault, if memory serves!!
I think it is time to force Congress and State Legislatures to put so me of this stuff on THE BALLOTS for the CITIZENS to vote on – and HANG what THEY “think” is “BEST” for us, in the USA.
Seems they need a strong lesson in who is only PUBLIC SERVANTS, again.
Any way you cut it – the DEATH PENALTY for MOLESTERS is going to put a screeching halt to this, especially if our vote for NOT EXCUSES AS TO WHO IT IS is going to be tolerated by the Citizens from THE SUPREME COURT, like the Christopher Simmons case, “just because he was a teen”.
Then let them tell us it doesn’t send a strong message.
Feralcat,
I don’t think we have all the facts yet, but I don’t want to see Michelle go off half-cocked just yet. She may need to find a more solid example.
In addition to your 3 probabilities keep in mind that since 1975 he had maybe 4 or 5 legal oppertunities to receive citizenship.
Including 7 years in the army,
An American Special Forces stepfather since he was about 10 in 1975.
Legal resident status in the US beginning when he emmigrated here from Thailand as minor in 1975.
1986 amnesty
If you mean vicious crimes commited by obviously illegal aliens, Sisypus, that’s already a very, very long list – and MM has posted on many of those cases.
The point here is enforcement, the guy was already facing deportation, according to an ICE spokewoman:
“Adhahn was later transferred to federal immigration detention in Tacoma because he could face deportation for his 1990 incest conviction, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Dankers. But he also has been charged in Pierce County with failing to register as a sex offender, and would face that charge before being deported.”
This ties in with Michelle’s repeated call to “clear the backlog” by enforcing the laws against those who come here to break our laws.
MiddleAgedKen~
My point was that Government failed to protect society at large, and young Zina has paid the price for it…
Debbie Schlussel: Why Won’t ICE–& Tommy Lasorda’s Buddy–Tell Us . . . . . . Where 27 hardened illegal alien criminals went, once they were released from prison?
Reading the blog its not clear if this kid is legal or not. MM has plenty of examples filed in her catch and release folder. If Americans were doing the same things in other countrys can you image the outrage?
The corporate interests that run this country may have failed to legalize open borders, but they will surely not allow the border to be closed. Don’t look for the board of directors of (pick a company) to determine that their illegal(read cheap) labor force constitutes an intolerable risk to our children, such that they shall now employ only Americans and absorb the increased costs. Hah!
We may have won the ShAmnesty battle but right now there is an AgJOBS bill set to sail right into law. Guess what it promises “blue cards” to illegals, they say 1.something million but others predict maybe 8+ million with the document fraud and family plan.