Bill West on Deporting Terrorist Suspects: "Al Qaeda and Al Capone"
By Andrew Cochran
In a column in FrontPage Magazine today, Bill West defends the use of immigration law to rid the U.S. of those suspected of terrorists, and Bill reminds us that it was on an income tax evasion charge that mobster Al Capone was eventually sent to prison. It's an excellent response to the Washington Post piece today on the same topic, which gives too much voice to complaints in the Muslim community about "zero-tolerance enforcement." As Bill reminds us, "Deportable is deportable. When it comes to being deportable, legally, there is no 'minor' or 'major;' there is only 'deportable' (or, in the current terminology, 'removable'). No deportation misdemeanors and felonies, its all administrative and only one finding if an alien is a violator removable. There are then appeals and potential application for relief from deportation, and thats what often ties up cases in litigation for sometimes years. (This is probably not something the immigration defense bar wants to be widely known.)"
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