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09-23-2010, 10:25 PM #1
Court Okays Longer Sentence For Illegal Immigrants
Court Okays Longer Sentence For Illegal Immigrants
Last Updated: Thu, 09/23/2010 - 1:04pm
In a much-needed legal victory for the often defeated immigration enforcement movement, a federal appellate court has ruled that a criminal’s sentence can be increased if he or she is in the United States illegally.
The case involves a pair of illegal aliens (Hector Loaiza-Sanchez and Jose Luis Juarez-Gonzalez) who pleaded guilty in an Iowa federal court to drug felonies, conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute a substantial quantity of methamphetamine.
Federal sentencing guidelines for such crimes range from 168 to 210 months for each defendant. A northern Iowa district court judge, Mark Bennett, said that he would have sentenced the illegal immigrant drug dealers near the bottom of the guidelines if they were in the country legally. Due to their unauthorized status, Judge Bennett instead slapped one defendant with a 188-month punishment and the other with 200 months.
The illegal aliens appealed, claiming that their sentence was improperly based on their immigration status and that it’s illegal to use alienage as a reason to increase a sentence. Upholding Judge Bennett’s decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that unauthorized immigrant status is separate from alienage because not all Hispanics are in the country illegally.
The appellate court dismissed the defendants’ suggestion that taking immigration status into account is national origin discrimination because the majority of illegal aliens are Hispanic. “A person’s legal status as a deportable alien is not synonymous with national origin,â€Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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09-23-2010, 11:07 PM #2
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Enforcement Is starting to gain a foothold
A judge makes a ruling that actually makes sense Amazing..... The tide Is turning....
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09-24-2010, 12:51 AM #3
Re: Enforcement Is starting to gain a foothold
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09-24-2010, 01:45 AM #4
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09-24-2010, 01:52 AM #5
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Re: Enforcement Is starting to gain a foothold
Originally Posted by topsecret10
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09-24-2010, 09:02 AM #6
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Better than letting them go.
Anyone remember hearing of some place in Texas letting them go?
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09-24-2010, 09:16 AM #7
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[quote]The appellate court dismissed the defendants’ suggestion that taking immigration status into account is national origin discrimination because the majority of illegal aliens are Hispanic. “A person’s legal status as a deportable alien is not synonymous with national origin,â€
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