Michelle Malkin
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials told The Washington Times this week that the fatally flawed release of illegal alien sniper suspect Lee Malvo from federal custody in January 2002 "followed standard procedure."
For once, these INS bureaucrats are telling you the truth.
The INS along with the immigration court system, which is a separate fiefdom administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church routinely ignores laws, policies and front-line employees' best judgment on detaining and deporting immigration outlaws.
In September, Maximiliano Silerio Esparza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was indicted on charges of brutally raping two nuns who were praying on a walking path in Klamath Falls, Ore., and then strangling one of them to death with her own rosary beads.
Esparza was detained twice earlier this year by the U.S. Border Patrol, but was released both times. According to the Oregonian, Esparza was let loose under INS's cost-saving catch-and-release policy. He previously served time in jail in California, had been arrested later in Portland on drug charges, and had an outstanding warrant for his arrest at the time of the alleged rapes and murder.
Posted by Suzanne at November 1, 2002