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INS Incompetents Let Sniper Suspect Walk Free

INS lets John Lee Malvo, an illegal alien from Jamaica wander free in America for 10 months.

The widely reviled Immigration and Naturalization Service is under attack once again, this time for bungling the case of sniper suspect John Lee Malvo, 17, an illegal alien from Jamaica.

The INS let Malvo wander alone in America for 10 months.

Malvo is also a suspect in the Sept. 21 murder of a liquor store clerk in Montgomery, Ala. His fingerprint was found on a weapons magazine in a parking lot outside the store, Mayor Bobby Bright told the Associated Press. A recent telephone call that police think came from the sniper said to "check with the people in Montgomery."

NBC News reported that Malvo and his mother, who authorities think still lives in Florida, were picked up by immigration authorities shortly after being "smuggled" into the United States. He entered the country illegally and faces an immigration hearing scheduled in Seattle next month, the network said.

The Baltimore Sun reported today that fellow sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, 41, had a relationship with Malvo's mother, grew close to him and regarded him as a stepson.

"Malvo entered Cypress Lake High School in Lee County, Fla., in August 2001, leaving after 39 days. He popped up again on Dec. 18, 2001, showing up at Bellingham High School in northwestern Washington," Scripps Howard News Service reported.

"School officials say Malvo left at least nine months ago. Officials say he next turned up in Tacoma, Wash., again with Muhammad, in January, residing in a fourplex in a lower-middle-class neighborhood near the Tacoma Mall. Neighbors described them, according to the Times, as 'nomads' and 'transients' who took target practice in their back yard," Scripps Howard reported.

According to WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, La., Malvo accompanied Muhammad in August when he visited a sister in the area. Relatives told the station that the teen appeared to have been "brainwashed" by Muhammad and was on a strict diet of crackers and honey.

Illegal Aliens Caught ... and Freed
INS documents reveal there is no blood or familial relationship between Muhammad and Malvo, columnist and author Michelle Malkin said on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes."

The agency detained Malvo and his mother, both of them illegal aliens, during some kind of custody fight with Muhammad in the Bellingham area, Malkin reported. The INS should have deported the mother and son but released them, she said.

"If this doesn't break the back of the INS, nothing will," O'Reilly fumed earlier on his program. Americans should rise up and demand that President Bush abolish the agency and start again from scratch, he urged. Then again, we just reported how the federal government rewarded the morons who let in the 9/11 hijackers. Perhaps taxpayers will also be forced to pay a bonus to the INS boobs who let Malvo loose.

INS official reclassified arrest to allow release

UPDATE- Justice Department Uses ANONYMOUS Official to answer criticism about their ineptitude.

A Justice Department official Friday defended the Immigration and Naturalization Service's decision to set John Lee Malvo free even though the Jamaican teenager faced possible deportation.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, rejected criticism voiced by Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who attacked the INS decision.

Tancredo made his charge shortly after Malvo, 17, and John Allen Muhammad, 41, were described by the leaders of a state and federal police task force as the two individuals responsible for the deaths of 10 people in a series of sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.

The Justice official said the agency acted properly in Malvo's case because it does not require the posting of bonds for juvenile immigrants who are arrested with their parents.

In this case, Una James, Malvo's mother, who was also accused of entering the United States illegally with her son, was required to post a $1,500 bond, pending a Nov. 20 deportation hearing. Malvo, then 16, was released into the custody of his mother, which is standard INS policy, the official said.

James and Malvo were cited by a Border Patrol officer in January for illegally entering the United States after Bellingham, Wash., police investigated an incident at a homeless shelter where they were living. They told the officer that they had arrived in the United States as stowaways on a ship filled with Asians, Tancredo said.

Although the Border Patrol officer who cited them in Bellingham listed them as stowaways, the Justice Department official said they were not stowaways under U.S. law. A stowaway does not have the right to be released on bond, the official said.

The Justice official said that after their arrest, another INS official reclassified their arrest to allow them to be released, pending their November hearing on the illegal-entry charges.

Tancredo said Friday that decision was wrong because the officer who arrested them also described the two as likely to flee.

"Just letting them go is not one of your options," Tancredo said.