Twisted Immigration Policy Shields War Criminals Living in the U.S.

Twisted Immigration Policy Shields War Criminals Living in the U.S.
By JORDANA A. HART / Miami Herald
March 27th, 2015

March 26, 2015

The nation’s top immigration court recently upheld the 2012 deportation order of Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, a former Salvadoran defense minister found responsible for the torture and killing of thousands of Salvadorans by military forces under his command during the 1980s civil war.

The problem is Vides has been living openly in this country since 1989 when he lawfully immigrated. Residing in Palm Coast with his wife, he was awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding service to the U.S. military. It was only in 2009 that he was first ordered deported for human-rights abuses — and he can fight the latest decision in federal court for years to come.

Layers of immigration laws developed after World War II were meant to block Nazis and other human-rights violators, like Vides, from entering the United States and to prohibit relief from deportation for those who lied to get visas and eventually become citizens.

Recent disclosures sadly show that many did not lie, but like Vides were invited and then protected from deportation by the U.S. government as a reward for their service.

More:
http://www.constantinereport.com/twisted-us-immigration-policy-shields-war-criminals/