Deport the Criminals First: Boston Bomber Should Have Been Deported?
The link goes to Judicial Watch, and I’d like to see whether the report stands up to scrutiny. But if it’s true? Oh, man:
One of the Chechen terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings could have been deported years ago after a criminal arrest and/or conviction and the other was granted American citizenship on the 11th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old killed in a wild shootout with police, was a legal U.S. resident who nevertheless could have been removed from the country after a 2009 domestic violence arrest and conviction, according to a Judicial Watch source. That means the Obama administration missed an opportunity to deport Tsarnaev but evidently didn’t feel he represented a big enough threat.
Other reporting confirms Tsarnaev’s arrest for domestic violence but we’re seeking confirmation of a conviction. Nevertheless he would have been subject to removal for the arrest itself.
Ouch. But there’s a big caveat noted at Hot Air:
Gabe Malor notes on Twitter that the Judicial Watch piece about Tamelan Tsarnaev’s 2009 domestic-violence arrest doesn’t specifically say that Tsarnaev was convicted. JW’s trying to nail that down. You can be deported for an arrest if you’re a visa holder but, per Gabe, they need to convict you in order to deport you if you’re a permane[n]t resident, as Tsarnaev reportedly was.
Then we have this:
From CBS’Bob Orr: FBIinterviewed Tamarlan Tsarnaev 2 yrs ago abt extremist ties, found nothing & closed file. More on CBS Evening News
— Major Garrett(@MajorCBS) April 19, 2013
Meanwhile, we have the suspect surrounded, which we are covering in a separate post.
Also reported that a foreign government warned U.S. that we’d better keep an eye on the older brother.
Colonel Haiku (f1519c) — 4/19/2013 @ 5:56 pmYup!
Gazzer (35fe93) — 4/19/2013 @ 8:58 pmWell, tell you what. I would want to have a look at all immigrants under 40yo who have spent more than 30 days outside the country in the past year who have ordered pressure cookers.
crosspatch (6adcc9) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:42 pmDaily Mail: Feds ‘investigating possibility that the government’s terror-trackers knew about the Boston bombers before the blasts’.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:46 pmmom liked to make fried chicken in a pressure cooker cause of she said that way it didn’t mess up her whole kitchen
around this time she and her accomplice – “dad” – they went to spain and they took a hydrofoil to africa and she rode an elephant, but they were only gone a couple weeks
I never thought anything of it til now
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:46 pmSorry. Comment #6 is a quote from the link at comment #4.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:48 pmi saw Giuliani tonight saying that he sure hoped that we would all come together and not try to make partisan points about . . . [and here he listed several topics, specifically including immigration].
In climbing up on the supposed moral high ground, Giuliani handed the left a cudgel with which it can beat those of us who want to raise completely legitimate issues such as the one raised in this post — issues that bear upon our future safety, and have nothing whatsoever to do with partisan politics.
Heck of a job, Rudy.
Patterico (9c670f) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:51 pmif rudy is pimping the dead bostonian people for to help roobs and meghan’s coward daddy ram through their unvetted immigration scheme he probably has a good reason
someone’s probably paying him good money I bet
happyfeet (8ce051) — 4/19/2013 @ 9:59 pmThe non-partisan civility ship of state sailed a long, long time ago.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 4/19/2013 @ 10:00 pmActually, DRJ I think it was scuttled.
Gazzer (35fe93) — 4/19/2013 @ 11:23 pmJW seems to be competing with CNN and the NY Post over who can misreport more news more irresponsibly than whom. They had no business running this piece until/unless they had confirmation of a conviction. Also FYI your link to Hot Air is bad, I presume you meant to link here: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/19/evening-thread-cops-continue-to-hunt-tsarnaev/
Xrlq (effebe) — 4/20/2013 @ 5:36 amI wonder if it was the same agent who declined to deport Tamerlan who didn’t want to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui, and his laptop?
askeptic (2bb434) — 4/20/2013 @ 11:05 amThere’s a culture there within the government that gets people killed.
I agree askeptic, but I think it’s caused by relentless indoctrination by the media and the politicians and the political appointees that “profiling” is racist.
It must stop.
Patricia (be0117) — 4/20/2013 @ 2:33 pmI don’t think it’s a great idea to deport (and not follow up on) possible terrorists like these ones:
Boston bombing suspect photographed car with ‘Terrorista #1’ license plate – New York Post Monday, April 22, 2013
Friends of accused Boston bomber taken into custody in New Bedford, Mass. Azmat and Diaz — as they’re known to their neighbors — were cuffed and hauled out of their apartment shortly before 4 p.m. on Saturday. New York Daily News
By the way, Dzhokhar was seen talking to them in Russian by college students after the bombing.
Maybe it’s all just a big joke, but before sending them away somebody should find out. And if they’ve been committing crimes here – the car is expensive – the question would be who paid for it – that ought not to be let go.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/22/2013 @ 11:55 amThey are from Kazakhstan.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 4/22/2013 @ 11:56 am