Tancredo Criticizes Bush Decision to Appeal Illegal Alien Murder Case

URL Source: http://tancredo.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx? NewsID=1315
Published: Oct 12, 2007
Author: Rep. Tom Tancredo
Post Date: 2007-10-12 00:43:33 by Moderate Mammal

Congressman says justice has already been served

( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) – Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today criticized the decision by President Bush to allow an appeals case to move to the Supreme Court regarding an illegal alien who was convicted of gang-raping, sodomizing and murdering two 14 year old girls.

“It’s astonishing that this president would give into international pressure from the Mexican government and possibly set this convicted gang member free,” Tancredo said.

Jose Medellin confessed, along with a handful of other gang members, to gang raping, sodomizing and murdering two 14 year old girls. He even took a wristwatch from one of the girls as a souvenir.

At issue is whether or not Medellin and the others were denied their right to contact the Mexican consulate prior to confessing their crimes. The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled in favor of the Mexican government and asked that the United States reconsider their sentences.

Concluded Tancredo, “If the decree of some international tribunal were to trump our judicial system it would be a national embarrassment.”

It is ludicrous and embarrassing that the President would pursue this case with such obsession and vengeance.

Tom Tancredo is right, once again, about how our president and legislators make themselves available to all kinds of debacles, schemes and other agendas when it comes to illegal immigrants, and in this case a criminal murder.  It is just downright insane the pandering that occurs.

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