Thread: TX:Perry, White Trade Blows on HPD Officer Killed by Illegal

Perry,White trade blows on Houston officer's killing (UPDATE)

Democrat Bill White struck back at a new campaign ad by GOP Gov. Rick Perry that features the widow of a Houston police officer killed by an immigrant who was in the country illegally.

"I trust Governor Perry to secure our safety. Bill White had his opportunity as mayor of Houston and he failed," Sgt. Joslyn Johnson of the Houston Police Department says in the ad after describing the killing of her husband, Rodney, also a Houston police officer.

White says Perry is "exploiting shamelessly the grief of a widow" to hide his "sorry record" on securing the border.

Here's the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTlJyC4X ... r_embedded

Here's the press release White put out today:

Perry cleaned records for thousands of sex offenders, let deported criminals keep valid drivers licenses

AUSTIN - Rick Perry, ignorant of public safety and out of touch with law enforcement, cleaned the records of convicted sex offenders who were deported from the United States and allowed deported criminals to keep valid drivers licenses.

"For 10 years, Perry has failed law enforcement, failed to secure the border. Criminals don't parachute into cities, they come over that border Perry only visits during election season. He's too busy looking out for himself to pay attention to what matters for public safety," said White.

"Rick Perry cleaned the records of thousands of convicted sex offenders who were deported and kept this policy until we confronted him about it," said White. "Perry even let deported criminals keep valid drivers licenses."

"Because of Perry's failure to secure the border, local police spend their time arresting illegal immigrants who commit crimes every day, as they did when I was Houston's mayor," said White.

The Crime Victims Office of Houston Mayor Bill White confronted Rick Perry's Department of Public Safety about why it had a policy of dropping sex offenders from the sex offender registry once deported.

The letter is available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/40069352/Hous ... rry-Letter

Within weeks of receiving the letter, Perry's DPS changed the policy, restoring 2,084 criminals to the sex offender list.

Houston Mayor Bill White's Chief of Staff called Steve McCraw, head of the Department of Public Safety, and alerted him to the fact that a criminal drug trafficker who had been deported was able to keep a Texas driver's license.

All municipal and county law enforcement depend on DPS databases to check driver's licenses and criminal backgrounds.

Sources:

"Requiring ICE officials to notify the state when they deport a foreign national with a Texas driver's license, which would close a gap that has allowed illegal immigrants to keep valid state identification. For example, according to local investigators, Alfaro had a Texas driver's license, even though an immigration judge ordered him
to leave the country in 2001."
Houston Chronicle, "Perry asks feds to share illegal immigrants' data," 4/3/09.
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"There is no legitimate reason for not including 'deported' under the category of status and for their information to remain on the public registry. Please advise if this issue can be addressed internally or will legislation have to be enacted to change what I consider to be a public safety glitch."
Letter from Andy Kahan, Mayor's Crime Victim's Director, to Colonel Thomas A. Davis, Texas
Department of Public Safety, 10/3/06.

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"More than 2,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders, whose names were absent from a public statewide database because they were deported, have been restored to the Texas Department of Public Safety public Internet site."
Associated Press, "Database changed to include deported illegal immigrants," 10/27/06.

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UPDATE: Perry spokesman Mark Miner said although the names of those deported never were removed from a separate list available to law enforcement.

Pot - Meet Kettle.

They are both treasonous self serving yahoos.