Senator: U.S. has become haven for war criminals

[kpete]

Senator: U.S. has become haven for war criminals
By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people from 85 countries who are accused of such crimes as rape, killings, torture and genocide are living in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.

America has become a haven for the world's war criminals because it lacks the laws needed to prosecute them, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday. There's been only one U.S. indictment of someone suspected of a serious human-rights abuse. Durbin said torture was the only serious human-rights violation that was a crime under American law when committed outside the United States by a non-American national.

"This is unacceptable. Our laws must change and our determination to end this shameful situation must become a priority," Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, said at a hearing of the subcommittee Wednesday.

He's trying to get more information about specific cases.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's hard for a country not to be a haven for war criminals

when war criminals are running it.

[bdamomma]

2. ................

exactly, welcome to *world.

[rocktivity]

3. Rocknation: The Bush White House has become a haven for war criminals

:mad:
rocknation

[zabet]

4. I would not expect anything less...

White House = Warren for War Criminals

"America has become a haven for the world's war criminals because it lacks the laws needed to prosecute them" I would think it would be because we refuse to prosecute the war criminals that
have a nut-hold on America, those thugs in the White House.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Indeed. Exhibit one: The United States Congress n/t

[malaise]

6. Successive US governments have welcomed right wing

murderers (linked to dictators they supported) to their shores.
Why is this news?

[bullimiami]

7. and a haven for rightwing terrorists including ship bombings in miami

and cuban aircraft bombings.

bushco speaks with forked tounge.