make your own judgement call on this one… this is from jorge-boosh-trying-to-save-murderer

This kind of story just FLIPS MY LID. Mexicans and other illegal aliens are screaming for the “rights” to not have their immigration status checked when they are arrested.. but here we have a case when I guess they think the police *should* have because then they would have been given the right to get the Mexican Consulate involved. You can’t have it both ways. I believe a Mexican national who is here on a visitor visa, tourist visa, student visa and has been abiding by the law has *every* right to contact with the Mexican Consulate. You come here illegally? Too freaking bad. You get to meet the US justice system without the benefit of the Mexican Consulate. These scumbags want to live here for YEARS illegally and then they scream “wait I’m a Mexican and I have a right to speak to the Mexican Consulate”… Well this is one American who says FRY HIS ASS. This is the kind of SCUM that is waking up Americans to the RAPE and MURDER of fellow citizens and the fact that President Bush is stepping in to protect him is NO SURPRISE to this patriotic former Republican!

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state’s plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court ultimately will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.

“The president does not agree with the ICJ’s interpretation of the Vienna Convention,” the administration said in arguments filed with the court. This time, though, the U.S. agreed to abide by the international court’s decision because ignoring it would harm American interests abroad, the government said.

Texas argues strenuously that neither the international court nor Bush, his Texas ties not withstanding, has any say in Medellin’s case.

Medellin was born in Mexico but spent much of his childhood in the
United States. He was 18 in June 1993, when he and other members of the
Black and Whites gang in Houston encountered two teenage girls on a
railroad trestle.

The girls were gang-raped and strangled. Their bodies were found four
days later.

Medellin was arrested a few days later. He was told he had a right to
remain silent and have a lawyer present, but the police did not tell
him that he could request assistance from the Mexican Consulate.

Medellin gave a written confession. He was convicted of murder in the
course of a sexual assault, a capital offense in Texas. A judge
sentenced him to death in October 1994.

Medellin did not raise the lack of assistance from Mexican diplomats
during his trial or sentencing. When he did claim his rights had been
violated, Texas and federal courts turned him down because he had not
objected at his trial. Mexico later sued the United States in the
International Court of Justice in The Hague on behalf of Medellin and
50 other Mexicans on death row in the U.S.

If that entire thing is true, well then, we all know Bush loves the death penalty and one has to wonder.