Residual Forces

Check out the absolute hypocrisy of this one. Judge refuses to allow refugee’s deportation (Refugee now means illegal alien too)

An immigration judge has rebuffed an attempt by federal immigration authorities in Minnesota to deport Rene Hurtado, a former member of the El Salvador treasury police, who was embraced by the Twin Cities antiwar movement after he denounced alleged U.S. complicity in the torture of El Salvadoran citizens in the 1980s.

Doesn’t sound that bad does it? Nope, the paper, as usual, spun it up to make the guy look good.

Judge Robert D. Vinikoor ruled that local immigration officials had not proved their case that Hurtado, who lives in Minneapolis, was involved in torture. The judge said Hurtado had been a model resident since coming to the United States illegally in 1981. The decision could still be appealed.

I’m sorry, but the media and the leftists just say that the US military tortures people, and that is taken as fact, why not this guy? Plus HE CAME HERE ILLEGALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vinikoor noted that Hurtado is married to a U.S. citizen and has two children who were born in the United States and has received a college degree, maintained steady employment and been active in his community and church.

Does that mean everyone who goes to Church and is married with kids can get forgiveness for breaking the law?

Vinikoor also argued that it was “fundamentally unfair” for immigration authorities to offer a transcript of an interview that Hurtado gave to Amnesty International in 1983. Hurtado did not see the transcript until the day of the court hearing on the case in Bloomington last June. Vinikoor said the transcript had many irregularities and was too unreliable to be included as evidence.

Why is that unfair? Is it not equally unfair for our troops to be tried in the court of public opinion? (For the second time I might add!)

The judge said that he also found that Hurtado’s testimony “although somewhat equivocal, does not establish that he tortured or persecuted innocent civilians in El Salvador.”

Definition of equivocal:

1. (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence.
2. Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. “Equivocal repentances.” –Milton.
3. Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. “How equivocal a test.” –Burke.

Hurtado became a cause celebre in the local antiwar community in the early 1980s after moving into St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Wayzata, which had joined what was known as the sanctury movement, protecting illegal aliens from deportation.

Bingo, the guy is an anti-war activist. That is why he is being allowed to stay here, even though he came here illegally.

He gave at least 25 news interviews, among them an interview with the Star Tribune, and in some interviews was quoted as saying that he was involved in torture. He has said in court that while he belonged to a military unit that engaged in torture and murder, the interviews were inaccurate. He said his English was poor and his statements were either misinterpreted, misquoted or mistranslated, and that he only observed other treasury police torturing or killing people.

Innocent bystander? Oh, it wasn’t his fault, he was misquoted. And the lefties are embracing him as a hero.

Hurtado’s remarks got considerable publicity in the 1980s because he alleged the U.S. military contributed to the abuses during his country’s civil war by training the treasury police in torture techniques. He appeared at rallies organized by local protesters who were opposed to U.S. military intervention in El Salvador.

There you go. Accuse the US of wrong doing, and you will be a hero, no saint to the antiwar/American left. (See Cindy Sheehan)

How do you spell judicial activist? I spell it Vinikoor.