The Problem with Immigration...Again

The problem with immigration raised its ugly head once more. It seems that John Demjanjuk was released from federal custody Tuesday evening, hours after six immigration officers bombarded the 89 year old ailing man’s home and removed the accused Nazi death camp guard in a wheelchair. It seems our wonderfully armed Federal officials had taken Mr. Demjanjuk to a federal building in downtown Cleveland. The retired autoworker's impending return to Germany was halted when three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of deportation.

This Senior Citizen has been charged by an arrest warrant in Germany that he was an accessory to some 29,000 deaths during World War II at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If he was sent back to Germany, he could be formally charged in court.

After his release, Mr. Demjanjuk was driven to his home in Seven Hills after his release, former son-in-law and family spokesman Ed Nishnic said. Our uneconomically minded bureaucrats over at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement they'll supervise him through electronic monitoring. I assume this would prevent the ailing man from escaping extradiction in his wheel chair.

In granting the stay, the three-judge panel said it would further consider Demjanjuk's motion to reopen the U.S. case that ordered the deportation. Mr. Demjanjuk is ailing and now has painful medical ailments that would make travel to Germany torturous.

Because of Mr. Demjanjuk's imminent deportation, the court issued the stay without addressing the U.S. government's argument that the court had no jurisdiction to rule on his appeal. I find it amazing that the liberal theologians now seem to conveniently somehow disregard a person in the U.S. access to court jurisdiction while all the while fighting for offshore terrorists access to the same courts they wish to deny Mr. Demjanjuk.

The government planned to continue its legal battle in court, said Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney. Another economically minded bureaucrat I am sure.

Published reports on Tuesday indicated that Mr. Demjanjuk's wife Vera, sobbed and held her hands to her mouth as immigration officers loaded his wheelchair into a van at their home. As the van moved down the street, Vera turned and waved, sobbing in the arms of a granddaughter.

Several lucky family members, including a 10-year-old grandson, were in the home when the officers removed Mr. Demjanjuk and were able to witness the system at its best. I am reminded of Eilian Gonzalez; the little 6 year old deported to Cuba by the Clinton Administration, all over again.

What is also not so surprising is the report by My Demjanjuk’s son, John Demjanjuk Jr., who filed the appeal with the 6th Circuit earlier Tuesday. He said the government hadn't lived up to earlier understandings of how his father would be removed. No surprise there. He was promised the Mr. Demjanjuk would have an ambulance and three to five days' notice.” Maybe the goverment pinheads should be charged with making a false statement.

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center is dead set on punishing Mr. Demjanjuk and said it was undeterred. Rabbi Marvin Heir, Wiesenthal Center founder promised "We remain confident that John Demjanjuk will be deported and finally face the bar of justice for the unspeakable crimes he committed during World War II when he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp, his work at the Sobibor death camp was to push men, women and children into the gas chamber. He had no mercy, no pity and no remorse for the families whose lives he was destroying forever".

Deborah Dwork, a professor of Holocaust history at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the Demjanjuk case illustrates that there is no statute of limitations on the crime of genocide. "The issue is holding him accountable, no matter what his age," she said.

Clear thinking people can clearly contradict her position. Mr. Demjanjuk's case clearly illustrates that the deep rooted hatred of a generation past is still deeply rooted within the hearts of many nations and politcal cronies are as far from justice as they have ever been. It begs the question to be asked: At what lengths will the German Government go to save face with the public?

Ms. Dwork said she believes German prosecutors acted cautiously and deliberately in bringing their case because they can't afford to run a weak trial. Germany's image in the eyes of the international community would be tarnished if Mr. Demjanjuk is acquitted, she said. What a shame.

Mr. Demjanjuk, a native Ukrainian, has denied being a Nazi guard and claims he was a prisoner of war of the Germans. He came to the United States after the war as a refugee.
Mr. Demjanjuk had been tried in Israel after accusations surfaced that he was the notorious Nazi guard "Ivan the Terrible" in Poland at the Treblinka death camp. He was found guilty in 1988 of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a conviction later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.

I for one think it is a shame that Mr. Demjanjuk had to go through the hell that he went through once again Tuesday morning. Whether the man is guilty or not is between him and God. He denied being a part of Hitler’s Regime and Israeli Supreme Court affirmed that. I know that my Lord and Savior Jesus hung on that cross for him as well. It seems Rabbi Heir like his Pharisee ancestors still doesn’t get it as well. I will pray for you oh mislead man of God.