How Congress gives special relief to convicted murderers, smugglers, and other alien law-breakers

 June 11, 2007 01:00 PM

Are you aware that deportable aliens can circumvent immigration laws with the help of your member of Congress? Are you aware that more than 50 bills have been introduced in Congress this year that would grant special, private relief to individual immigrants fighting deportation? It’s instant amnesty through special legislation. [snip]

How does this happen and how can you find out if your member of Congress has sponsored such a bill?

First, go to the Library of Congress website’s bill text search page. Type in “for the relief of” in the text search box [snip]

Now, hit the search button. You’ll get a long list of bills [snip]

These individual bills are ripe for corruption. Indeed, the Abscam scandal in the 1970s involved payoffs for the sponsorship of exactly these kind of private immigration laws, according to the Congressional Research Service. Here’s a list of private relief bills passed in the House between 1999-2005. The Hill has more background here. [snip]

One example I noted in 2003: Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., introduced H.R. 393, which would exempt from deportation a Mexican national caught trying to smuggle her illegal alien boyfriend (a gang member convicted of felony firearms possession and deported to Mexico after serving his sentence) back into the U.S.

Federal immigration law expressly forbids Pastor’s special relief recipient, Alejandra Arias Garcia, from being released from detention. But the immigration officials in Phoenix ignored the law at Rep. Pastor’s behest and set her free — to the cheers of the illegal alien lobby.

Now, let’s go back to the list of relief bills for the current 110th Congress. Number 60 on the list is this private relief bill sponsored by Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott: 110^th Congress, 1^st session H.R. 2181 for the relief of Mohuiddin A.K.M. Ahmed 

Who is Mohuiddin A.K.M. Ahmed? He’s a Bangladeshi military officer convicted of murdering the Bangladeshi prime minister and two dozen members of his family–including a 10-year-old boy and pregnant women–in 1975. The coup leaders declared Bangladesh an “Islamic Republic.” Some two decades later, democracy was restored in the country and the assassins were tried. Ahmed escaped to the U.S. in 1996 and has lived here illegally for 11 years. [snip]

In a stark illustration of the “It ain’t over ’til the alien wins” deportation abyss that I’ve reported on for the last several years, Ahmed has been able to stay in this country through endless appeals. The feds began deportation proceedings against him nine years ago. He applied for asylum and lost in 2002. He then went to the left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals–and even they rejected his bid (ruling here.)

Writing in the Bangladesh Daily Star, blogger Mashuqur Rahman noted:

The private bill introduced by congressman McDermott, known as H.R. 2181, aims to help Mohuiddin in a number of ways.

First, it aims to stay the deportation order against him indefinitely.

Second, it aims to release him from custody and bars the DHS from deporting him to Bangladesh, or to any country that has an extradition treaty with Bangladesh.

Third, it aims to grant a green card to Mohuiddin, which would allow him to get preferential treatment before all other green card applicants from Bangladesh. It also aims to grant him the card by reducing the number of green cards available to other Bangladeshis by one.

Finally, it states that Mohuiddin will be allowed to seek asylum in any foreign country of his choosing. [snip]

Thanks to McDermott and the private relief bill process, Ahmed’s deportation–which was scheduled for last weekend–was stymied. [snip]

These are the people who are asking you to trust them with the shamnesty proposal’s promise that they will get tough with criminal aliens and deport law-breakers who violate the fantasy rules and regulations of Bush-Kennedy’s massive new guest worker programs.
Fat. Chance.

McDermott is the infamous Baghdad Jim who thought this country disgraced itself by being in the Middle East.

What your congressional delegation says in DC is very different from the statements made at home. The latter are for public consumption; the former are for divvying up the taxpayers money.

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