Cuban militant with violent past faces immigration hearing ... (Posada)

[struggle4progress]

... while other nations take note

By Alicia A. Caldwell
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:02 p.m. June 13, 2005

EL PASO, Texas – The lawyer for a Cuban exile accused of planning the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 argued Monday that his client never gave up his U.S. residency and asked that court proceedings on immigration charges be moved to Florida.
Luis Posada Carriles is charged with entering the country illegally this year in a case that has sparked an international battle. Several Latin American and Caribbean governments are demanding his deportation and retrial as a terrorist in Venezuela. <snip>

Eduardo Soto, Posada's attorney, argued Monday that his client has never lost his U.S. residency despite being out of the country for years. <snip>

But federal immigration officials have said that leaving the country for more than one year typically voids an immigrant's permanent resident status.

U.S. Immigration Judge William L. Abbott said he would issue a ruling on the change-of-venue request but did not say when. Abbott set a tentative Aug. 29 hearing on whether Posada gave up his permanent residency when he became a Venezuelan citizen. He also set a bond hearing for June 24. <snip>

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050613-1402-cubanmilitant.html

[Say_What]

1. That 'twice aquitted' is bullshit

In the docs submitted by Venezuela for Posada's extradition. The history of the litigation proves otherwise.

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...The history of the litigation shows, though, that the first so-called exoneration, was a case that was dismissed because a military court had inappropriately tried Posada. The second trial never reached a conclusion because Posada escaped from prison before a verdict was reached.

The embassy’s documentation further specifies that the statute of limitations has not been reached because of Posada’s status as a fugitive from justice, in which case the statue of limitations does not apply.

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The press is hardly investigating this guy. Follow the terrorist acts to see that the same people are involved in acts of terrorism over the decades. Posada's accomplice was Orlando Bosch-Avila, pardoned by Poppy in 1992. Hey maybe TortureBoy will pardon Posada-Carriles on his way out of office. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

<clips>

...CIA Documents On Posada and Bosch

Document 1: CIA, Secret Intelligence Report, "Activities of Cuban Exile Leader Orlando Bosch During his Stay in Venezuela," October 14, 1976

A source in Venezuela supplied the CIA with detailed intelligence on a fund raiser held for Orlando Bosch and his organization CORU after he arrived in Caracas in September 1976. The source described the dinner at the house of a Cuban exile doctor, Hildo Folgar, which included Venezuelan government officials. Bosch was said to have essentially asked for a bribe in order to refrain from acts of violence during the United Nations meeting in November 1976, which would be attended by Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. He was also quoted as saying that his group had done a "great job" in assassinating former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier in Washington D.C. on September 21, and now was going to "try something else." A few days later, according to this intelligence report, Luis Posada Carriles was overheard to say that "we are going to hit a Cuban airplane" and "Orlando has the details."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB157/

[Mika]

2. As usual MSM uses "militant" instead of terrorist for BushCrimeNazis.

Eduardo Soto, Posada's attorney, argued Monday that his client has never lost his U.S. residency despite being out of the country for years.

<snip>

But federal immigration officials have said that leaving the country for more than one year typically voids an immigrant's permanent resident status.

Don'tcha just love how BushCrimeNazi Cuban exiles almost always feel as though they are above US law.





Crying Wolf on Terrorism. Who is the Wolf?
http://www.bcrevolution.ca/plans_for_takeover.htm




Cuban tourist students visiting Nova Scotia

[Judi Lynn]

3. Posada renews asylum bid at a hearing held in Texas

Posted on Tue, Jun. 14, 2005

LUIS POSADA CARRILES CASE
Posada renews asylum bid at a hearing held in Texas

Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles refiled a formal request for political asylum, and a judge said he is considering moving him to a facility closer to Miami.

BY OSCAR CORRAL
[e-mail]


El PASO -- Dressed in a red government-issue jumpsuit and a bullet-proof vest, anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles appeared for his first immigration hearing Monday to renew his request for political asylum and insist that he can stay in the U.S. because he is already a U.S. resident.

Posada's attorney, Eduardo Soto, asked Judge William L. Abbott to transfer Posada to Miami or another Florida facility, so he could be closer to his lawyers and family.

No decisions were made at the hearing, which lasted about an hour. Instead, the judge set dates down the road to rule whether to free Posada on bond, and whether he is still a U.S. resident.

Part of the U.S. legal team against Posada, including an Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney, Gina Garrett-Jackson, flew in from Miami, as did Posada's lawyers. His lawyer said it would be easier -- and cheaper -- for him and the government to move Posada to Miami.

''My client is entitled to sit with his counsel and review the boxes and boxes of documents,'' Soto said. The government is ``fully able to prosecute Posada in Miami.''
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/11887836.htm
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[geek tragedy]

4. Deport him or hang him. eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. His client is entitled to a cell in Gitmo

This mfer needs to spend the rest of his days getting the same treatment we give to other 'terrorists'.