DHS Work Permits to Illegal Aliens

[Anonymous]

I still can not believe what I read this morning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706807.html

So the illegal alien who did not have a driver's license and was twice convicted for DUI is slated for a deportation hearing. What does DHS do - issue him a work permit! Are you kidding me? Really? Just commit a crime, or two, or three and get in an endless line for deportation and suddenly you are legal to work?

Said illegal alien, still without a license, went on to drive drunk again and kill two Roman Catholic nuns minding their own business . Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with this picture?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still can not believe what I read this morning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706807.html

So the illegal alien who did not have a driver's license and was twice convicted for DUI is slated for a deportation hearing. What does DHS do - issue him a work permit! Are you kidding me? Really? Just commit a crime, or two, or three and get in an endless line for deportation and suddenly you are legal to work?

Said illegal alien, still without a license, went on to drive drunk again and kill two Roman Catholic nuns minding their own business . Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with this picture?

No, you are not. Vehicular homocide carries prison time but the US taxpayer is hit for paying for his sentence in prison. Rotten to the core.

[Anonymous]

Did you happen to notice that he had come here when he was 8 YEARS OLD? Also, the fact that he had a work permit didn't cause the accident - he was driving drunk.

Maybe you should take a lesson from the nuns:

The Benedictine Sisters of Virginia and Mothers Against Drunk Driving have resisted efforts to politicize the accident.

"We want to stay with the facts. This was caused by drunk driving," said Sister Andrea Verchuck of the Benedictine Sisters, which are headquartered in Bristow.

[Anonymous]

I can already tell from your subject header where your feelings laid before this article, so no point in commenting further.

[Anonymous]

You miss the point -= I am not talking about the drunk driving - rather the insane notion that if you commit a crime, are in deportation hearing, you get a work permit as the prize from DHS. This is just bizzare - and law abiding illegal aliens cannot get legal work permits for love or money.

[Anonymous]

Yeah this is one hand not knowing what the other is doing. Didn't one of the 9/11 hijackers get a visa extension approved in October 2001?

[Anonymous]

There are valid reasons why he would be granted a work permit. I don't know his particular circumstances and I'm not saying that these were the reason(s) but I know that my federal agency sometimes coordinates with ICE because we need an undocumented person to show up as a witness in a trial. Therefore we ask that ICE extend working papers for that individual to stay in this country until the trial is over. "Illegal Immigrants" are witnesses to crimes whose testimony convicts very dangerous criminals. They are witnesses in civil trials too. Indeed, there may be witnesses in the trial of this drunk driver who are illegal -- and who are being granted exemptions from deportation, and work permits, in order to testify.