An imperative bill that aims to withhold American aid to countries that refuse to take back citizens who commit crimes while living—often illegally—in the U.S. is floating around in Congress. Incredibly, the U.S. doles out tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid annually yet some recipients of Uncle Sam’s generosity boldly reject federal efforts to repatriate their most deplorable nationals.
This presents a critical problem for the U.S. and its law-abiding citizens because even the most serious felons get released from prison after serving their sentence. When federal authorities try to deport the alien convicts and officials in their homeland decline, the foreign criminals simply get released into American society. This may sound inconceivable but it happens regularly and, predictably, the recidivism rate is alarmingly high. Federal authorities claim their hands are tied when they can’t remove an alien criminal because they’re not allowed to detain them indefinitely.
Here’s an example of the consequences of this absurd system that scatters criminals into communities throughout the nation. An illegal immigrant from Haiti who stabbed a young Connecticut woman to death after completing a 15-year sentence for murder couldn’t be deported by the U.S. government because his island nation wouldn’t take him back—three times! Federal authorities released him and didn’t even bother tracking his whereabouts allowing the con, Jean Jacques, to commit yet another heinous crime. Six months after being released Jacques stabbed 25-year-old Casey Chadwick to death in Norwich, a Connecticut city of about 40,000 residents. It’s important to mention that Connecticut has long protected illegal immigrants with sanctuary policies and even offers them special drivers’ licenses, but the gruesome crime ignited fury and the state’s congressional delegation—all Democrats and avid defenders of sanctuary measures—demanded a federal investigation into the matter.
Haiti, a famously impoverished Caribbean country, gets a boatload of money every year from American taxpayers regardless of who occupies the White House. In fact, since the 2010 earthquake the U.S. government has committed $4.2 billion in assistance in addition to the regular flow of cash that Americans give the island nation. The new measure, introduced this year by Texas Congressman Brian Babin, would certainly have made a difference in the Jacques case, though it’s outrageous by any account that Haiti calls the shots in such a critical matter. “There is absolutely no reason that criminal aliens should be released back onto America’s streets, yet that is exactly what is happening by the thousands each and every year because their countries of origin refuse to take them back,” Babin said in a statement announcing his measure.
The proposed bill (Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act of 2017) upholds the rule of law, the congressman says, and holds these countries accountable by stripping their foreign aid and travel visas if they fail to cooperate. Besides withholding money to uncooperative countries that refuse to take back their criminal alien nationals, the measure includes a mandate that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) submit to Congress a report every three months listing those nations. It also provides the victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens standing in federal court to sue for deportation of such criminal aliens. The congressman mentions Casey Chadwick, the 25-year-old stabbing victim, in his statement.
A federal report, issued by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is also cited by the lawmaker to make a case for his bill. It discloses that 86,288 illegal immigrants who committed 231,074 crimes were released by the Obama administration since 2013. Among them was Jacques, who was listed as a passenger on three Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flights to Haiti but instead was set free to butcher an innocent young woman.
“In fact, since the 2010 earthquake the U.S. government has committed $4.2 billion in assistance in addition to the regular flow of cash that Americans give the island nation. ”
I understand the population of Haiti is around ten and a half million.
Do the per capita math yourself, and then ask why they are still in need of assistance.
FWIW, as near as I can tell the average income in Haiti is less than a thousand a year (and that’s probably a high estimate).
Haiti’s GDP in 2016 was $8.3 billion according to IMF. So $4.2 billion is over half their income.
That’s crazy. I’ll bet they’d be willing to take back a few miscreants. Maybe some would have unfortunate accidents shortly after their return.
I was born and raised in Connecticut until the age of 18 when I fled that insane asylum and never looked back. Liberal thought there is the most toxic and deranged you can imagine. Not only do they reject out of hand opposing views they actually get pissed at you for having the chutzpah to disagree with them. I’ll never cheer any innocent death but in this old world you eventually get what you deserve. I’m fine with every illegal murdering rat around flooding the state to avail themselves of that liberal benevolence.
“I was born and raised in Connecticut until the age of 18 …”
You were born until the age of 18?? Your mom must have been pretty exhausted afterwards.
Born AND RAISED Stucky. This is not a giant mental leap for most people over the age of 6 or those with room temperature IQ’s.
OBVIOUSLY what you meant was “Born AND RAISED”.
Nevertheless, what you actually wrote doesn’t reflect that … or, at best, it is a very poor grammatical construction.
A grammatically better option would have been; “I was born in Connecticut and raised there until the age of 18.”
Surely you can see the difference? Then again, you write like a 6 year old so, maybe not.
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Lastly, the comment was made in jest!! . Nothing more than just a little fun with a sentence that just sounded funny, at least to me.
But, NOOOOOOOOO!!!, the special little snowflake that you are just HAD to get all butt-hurt and offended.
And the same goes for you four cocksuckers whose feewings were also bruised. What a bunch of humorless ass-wipes we have here. I’ve said it before, so has the Injun, and I think one or two others …. this place ain’t as fun as it used to be.
You jackasses don’t deserve the benefit of my wit and humor. Ya’ll can go fuck yourselves … right after you suck a bag of diseased donkey dicks.
Why do they need to have Haiti take this guy back? Just execute the asshole. Oh yeah I forgot that they don’t believe in the death penalty for assholes, just for young women that the assholes kill. Oh and we all know why the Haitians are all poor. The criminal clintons stole all the money that was sent to Haiti – both that from the .gov and that from the nice folks who thought that they should help.
If Trump/Pence were so worried about women’s lives, they’d let them have access to safe abortions.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/miscarrying-woman-denied-an-abortion-dies-in-ireland-1.1144270
Instead, we get a new global gag rule that says nobody can ever talk about abortion or even birth control. Fuckers.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-makes-the-global-gag-rule-on-abortion-even-worse
Chubby…..so your opinion is that the U.S. should FUND the abortion problems for the rest of the world. Why stop there? The U.S. could FUND every problem in the world.
Why not – the U.S. is the richest country in the world, even though it has the largest debt in the world??????
Why do we need permission to return the guy? Fuck that. Fly a plane by the island and push him out, with our without a parachute. Let him swim to shore.
That was my thinking.
Mine, too. Or use a helicopter and dump him in the street in front of their police station.
Murderer only gets 15 yrs? There is the problem. If they won’t hang ’em, at least drop them into the ocean halfway to Haiti and let them decide where to go.
Chum it first, or you could accidentally miss the ocean and hit land, and save money by not providing a parachute.
I wasted a year serving as Deputy Foreman on a Federal Grand Jury here in Florida.
The Ice folks go all the way to make sure the illegal in custody IS who he is supposed to be.
He gets his day in court, goes to prison and serves his term (which is like Club Med compared to prison wherever he came from) and then gets deported. Sometimes he is back in Florida before those escorting him return. No joke. And the escort didn’t stop for a couple days in Cancun on the way back, either…
I seriously doubt there are Federales on the Rio Grande checking IDs of those about to wade across the border to make sure they aren’t wanted in Mexico.
Then there was Fidel, who hauled truckloads of his worst prison and loony bin inmates to the beach at Mariel and told them to wade out and get on one of those boats. If they tried to come back they would get shot.
At least they should consider pushing the deportees out the door at a low level over the runway. That way they wouldn’t have too far to walk to get to the taxi stand. (Yes, I’m being facetious on that last thought.)