Tancredo chides Bush for appealing case of illegal alien who murdered two girls October 10, 2007 Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has criticized President Bush for allowing an appeals case to move to the Supreme Court regarding an illegal alien who was convicted of gang-raping, sodomizing and murdering two 14 year old girls. “It’s astonishing that this president would give in to international pressure from the Mexican government and possibly set this convicted gang member free,” Tancredo said. Tancredo noted that Jose Medellin, the convicted murderer, confessed, along with a handful of other gang members, to gang raping, sodomizing and murdering two 14 year old girls. He even took a wristwatch from one of the girls as a souvenir. The Mexican government took issue because Medellin and the others were denied their right to contact the Mexican consulate prior to confessing their crimes. The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled in favor of the Mexican government and asked that the United States reconsider their sentences. Concluded Tancredo, “If the decree of some international tribunal were to trump our judicial system it would be a national embarrassment.” The administration has also been criticized by Texas officials for over stepping its bounds and setting a dangerous precedent interfering with the Texas state courts. The executive branch of government has no authority to interfere with the judicial branch, a separate and equal branch. |
Last updated November 21, 2007