AP: DHS lifts rule requiring high level approval for arresting fugitive immigrants

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AP:

"The Homeland Security Department is reversing itself, saying a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants was lifted weeks after the presidential election.

The unusual directive was originally imposed by the Bush administration days before the election of Barack Obama, whose aunt was living in the United States illegally. The rule expressed concerns about 'negative media or congressional interest.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/26/washington/AP-Obama-Aunt.html?_r=1

So, BushCo was afraid deporting Obama's aunt before the election might have had a negative impact? Hmmm . . .

So, in theory, DHS can go after Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban terrorist BushCo has been coddling in Miami since 2004? It seems Hugo Chavez thinks he might have a chance with Obama getting Posada back.

The Miami Herald:

"Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro is preparing a document in a bid to awaken interest in Washington for the extradition request filed soon after Posada sneaked into the United States in 2005, said José Pertierra, an attorney who represents the Venezuelan government in the U.S. capital.

'The foreign minister in Venezuela is preparing something that we'll be submitting soon to the State Department,' Pertierra told The Miami Herald Thursday evening. 'Our request is still pending. We are going to be ratifying it and asking the Obama administration to follow up on the case. . .'

Posada, who turns 81 Feb. 15, had left his job in the Venezuelan intelligence agency known as DISIP when a bomb destroyed a Cubana de Aviación jetliner off Barbados in 1976, killing 73 passengers and crew members.

Posada was one of four key suspects arrested in the case. Vehemently denying the charges against him, Posada was tried in a military court and acquitted with the other suspects in 1980. Posada then escaped from prison while awaiting a new trial in a civilian court.

After figuring in the Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s, Posada settled in El Salvador and was implicated in the bombing of tourist sites in Cuba in the 1990s.

He has denied those accusations."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/868371.html

Read Posada's rapsheet at GWU's National Security Archives:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/