Some High Costs of Diversity

In his seventh year of "funda­mentally transforming the United States of America," as Barack Obama famously promised five days before he was elected Presi­dent, we're learning new details about what "diversity" in our immigration policy really means. Instead of doing his duty to keep bad people out of America (or removing them if they manage to sneak in), Obama is bring­ing us an unwelcome diversity by accepting thousands of refugees from terrorist-harboring countries such as Syria and Somalia.

Thousands of immigrants have been released from custody after being convicted of serious, violent felonies and horrific sex crimes. Immigrants who commit a major crime inside the U.S. are supposed to be returned to their home coun­try after completing their prison sentence. But a number of coun­tries refuse to take back their own criminals, so ICE just turns them loose in U.S. communities, freeing them to return to their criminal lifestyle. We have a U.S. law that is supposed to deal with this; it requires our State Department to impose visa sanctions on countries that refuse to take back their own citizens. But Obama's State De­partment simply ignores this law; that's called executive discretion.

Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have gotten Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to admit the awful truth: "One hundred twenty-one convicted criminals who faced deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 were never removed from the coun­try and now face mur­der charges for killing Americans." Hundreds of other immigrants who were convicted of vio­lent sex crimes, including depraved acts against chil­dren, were released into unsus­pecting U.S. communities without being registered as sex offenders. The Boston Globe compiled a da­tabase of nearly a thousand im­migrant sex fiends.

The excuse given for these outrageous releases is a Supreme Court decision called Zadvydas which held that persons await­ing deportation can't be held in­definitely. That 2001 decision was accepted by the George W. Bush administration, which released hundreds of violent criminal im­migrants including the accused perpetrator of the D.C. Mansion murders, Darron Wint.

Obama used his executive ac­tion to give valuable benefits to the Communist rulers of Cuba without any quid pro quo whatsoever that might benefit the United States, but Cuba still refuses to take back its citizens who have been convict­ed of crimes against Americans. Cuba refused to take back 878 criminals last year and has already rejected nearly 400 criminals this year. Cuba is the biggest offender among the countries that refuse the return of their own citizens who committed crimes in our coun­try, but there are at least a dozen other countries doing the same thing. It's bad enough that those criminals committed vicious crimes against our girls, but it adds insult to injury when we have to spend U.S. taxpayers' money to support foreign criminals for years in our institutions.

Republican Members of Con­gress have proposed several legis­lative solutions for this lack of co­operation by our so-called friendly neighbors, but to no avail. For starters, Congress should cut off all foreign aid and all other favors to countries that refuse to take back their own criminals.