INS Incompetents Let Sniper Suspect Walk Free
NewsMax.com
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002
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, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly reported tonight.
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 today.
"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 tonight 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.
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