Attorney General Eric Holder can hardly contain his tears when explaining his program titled, “Justice AmeriCorps,” to provide emergency legal representation for the tens of thousands of Central American minors crashing our southern border.
“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse, or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” Holder said while detailing his program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for the minors.
And yet it was (then) Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder who concocted the “legal” cover for the INS to mace, kick, stomp, and gun-butt their way into the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) on the morning of April 22, 2000, wrench a bawling 6-year-old child from his family at machine-gun point, and bundle him off to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom, leaving 102 people (legal U.S. citizens and residents all) injured, some seriously.
Even as the mace dispersed and Elian’s legal custodians sought medical help for their injuries, Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano already had Eric Holder’s number:
“Tell me, Mr. Holder,” Napolitano asked on April 23, 2000, “why did you not get a court order authorizing you to go in and get the boy (Elian Gonzalez)?”
Holder: Because we didn’t need a court order. INS can do this on its own.
Napolitano: You know that a court order would have given you the cloak of respectability to seize the boy?
Holder: We didn’t need an order.
Napolitano: Then why did you ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for such an order if you didn’t need one?
Holder: [Silence]
More at Human Events
H/T Weasel Zippers
Eric Holder is transparent. Transparently moronic.
Apparently, liberal compassion is using the unfortunate for political gain.
Elian Gonzalez was an undocumented alien minor who had entered the United States illegally, correct?
So tell me, how was his case any different from that of any undocumented alien child illegally sent to the United States by parents hoping to provide their kid with a better chance than he or she might have growing up in Tegucigalpa, aka The Murder Capital of the World?
Other than that Cuba isn’t the murder capital of the world, and that his late mother had embarked with her son on the incredibly risky journey without the permission or knowledge of the child’s father, of course.
@Greg: Actually, there are different rules for Cubans. He was also with his relatives. His mother died during the trip from Cuba to the US. Cubans were considered refugees if they put foot on US Soil. Quite a different case.