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April 19, 2013
We Could've Deported One of the Terrorists, But Apparently We Didn't Think He Was A Threat
Via @comradearthur. Time for some genuine immigration reform.
One of the Chechen terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings could have been deported years ago after a criminal conviction and the other was granted American citizenship on the 11th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old killed in a wild shootout with police, was a legal U.S. resident who nevertheless could have been removed from the country after a 2009 domestic violence conviction, according to a Judicial Watch source. That means the Obama administration missed an opportunity to deport Tsarnaev but evidently didn�t feel he represented a big enough threat.
Adding insult to injury, the other bomber, little brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was rewarded with American Citizenship on September 11, 2012 in Boston, according to JW�s source. The 19-year-old, who is still on the run, was granted asylum in Arlington Virginia on September 27, 2002, JW�s source reveals.