Feds sued for concealing release info about illegal alien

[Confederate Kahanist]

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By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

President Barack Obama delivers a statement to the press following his meeting with bipartisan Congressional leadership in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, November 30, 2010. UPI/Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via Newscom

A public interest organization that pursues transparency in government has filed a lawsuit to obtain a federal report on why an illegal alien with multiple DUI arrests was released instead of being deported. He later was arrested on suspicion of yet another drunk-driving accident, this time involving the death of a nun.

"Now we see the deadly consequences of the Obama administration's decision to fail to enforce federal immigration laws," said Tom Fitton, chief of Judicial Watch.

"The Obama administration's irresponsible policy led to the death of Sister Mosier and critical injuries to two other nuns. The Department of Homeland Security's refusal to release the results of its investigation ... smacks of a cover-up," he said.

"The American people deserve to know why a repeat criminal illegal alien scheduled for deportation was allowed to roam free in the United States for almost two years and ultimately kill a nun," he said.

The comments came today along with confirmation that Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan educational foundation that fights government and judicial corruption and promotes ethics and morality, filed a lawsuit against the Obama Department of Homeland Security to get documents related to the case of Carlos Martinelly-Montano.

He was described as an illegal alien who was accused of striking and killing a Virginia nun in a drunk driving accident Aug. 1.

"Montano had been arrested on two prior drunk driving charges. He was placed in the custody of federal immigration officials in 2008 and was scheduled for deportation but was released on his own recognizance pending a deportation hearing that never took place," Judicial Watch reported.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano called for an investigation on August 2, 2010, to determine why Montano's removal process took so long and the report being finished, now it is being concealed, the report said.
WASHINGTON - JULY 28: Dozens of U.S.-born children from across the country traveled to the White House with their undocumented parents to march and demonstrate against recent deportations July 28, 2010 in Washington, DC. Organized by CASA de Maryland, Familias Latinas Unidas, and other organizations, marchers describing themselves as 'Obama Orphans,' or children whose parents have been deported, called on President Barack Obama to keep his campaign promise of comprehensive immigration reform. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

According to the Washington Post, "The [Montano] inquiry is complete, but Homeland Security does not plan to make the results public, according to the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the matter. 'It's a document that includes law enforcement sensitivities, so it will not be made public,' the official said."

Judicial Watch asked for the DHS report on Oct. 12, and by law a response was due by Nov. 26. However, to date there has been nothing made available that would be responsive to the request or to demonstrate why the records should be concealed.

The DHS could not be reached for comment. The media office had an answering service on its line which stated callers could not leave a message because the mailbox was full.

The organization explained that Montano entered the United States illegally as a child from Bolivia. He's been charged with involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving for the Aug. 1 accident that killed Sister Denise Mosier and critically injured two other nuns in Prince William County, Va.

Previously – in October 2008 – Montano was arrested for drunk driving incident and handed over to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, JW reported. He was scheduled for deportation, but the hearing was delayed three times and ultimately never happened.

"Once again, Judicial Watch is forced to go to court to force the 'transparent' Obama administration to follow the open records law," Fitton said.

According to a report in the Washington Post, authorities in Prince William County also have sought the federal reports, as has U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va.

"We believe we have a right to the information and need it," board chairman Corey Stewart told the newspaper. "The county has taken great pains, and at great expense, to identify illegal immigrants and hand them over to ICE. We find out then they released Montano even though they knew he was an illegal immigrant … and they released him without informing the Prince William community or Prince William police."

A trial for Martinelly-Montano, 23, is scheduled for March 28.

WND has reported extensively on the crime in the United States traced to illegal aliens. In 2008, there was the report that a showdown over drug money between suspected Mexican illegal aliens in Alabama ended with four men in prison and four shipped back to Mexico in body bags.

Three suspected illegal aliens from Mexico and another man were arrested and charged with capital murder for electrocuting, stabbing, suffocating and beating five men to death in a murder-for-hire.

The four suspects were paid between $400,000 and $450,000 to torture the victims with electric shock and slit their throats in an Alabama apartment, police said.

WND also reported on a revealing new documentary called "Southern Exposure: Battle for the Border" that explains thousands of felons are flooding into the United States across nation's southern border.

It says in fiscal 2008-2009, there were 378,000 apprehensions by the Border Patrol in the Tucson sector alone, which is only 262 linear miles.

And a report in 2008 said 75 percent of illegal aliens who were deported were expected to commit another crime within a year of returning to the U.S.

The nonprofit Rand Corporation study released then followed inmates released from Los Angeles County jail in 2002. The report said aliens who have been deported are far more likely to commit a crime – with 28 percent likely to be arrested three or more times after their release.