Do You Think Its Fair Illegals Caught With Less Then A Quarter Ton Of Dope Will Not Face Any Prosecution ?

MICHAEL MUKASEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL: We are about stopping people who are making tons of money out of ruining other people’s lives.
SCHIAVONE: One Texas lawmaker says the cross border drug trade around Tucson is thriving and claims the U.S. attorney there is doing little about it.
REP. JOHN CULBERSON (R), TEXAS: If you are arrested by a border patrol agent in the Tucson sector carrying less than a quarter ton of dope, you have a 99.6 percent chance of being home in time for dinner and never going to jail because the U.S. attorney’s office is not prosecuting them.
SCHIAVONE: Culberson says border patrol agents told him that U.S. attorney Diane Humetewa alerted them she would not prosecute anyone arrested with less than 500 pounds of dope.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They’re laughing at us. I mean the smugglers are laughing at us out there. And it’s a terrible problem.
SCHIAVONE: The attorney general responded…
MUKASEY: My experience did not coincide with yours. And I think I need to revisit this by phone or otherwise in so far as this supposed 500-pound threshold.
SCHIAVONE: Culberson is not just concerned about drugs. He says he found this notice tacked up in the Nogales, Arizona border patrol office, indicating the U.S. attorney’s office would turn its attention primarily to violent crimes and would not prosecute crimes under the part of the U.S. criminal code that covers illegal entry.
The office of U.S. attorney Diane Humetewa offered no comment to any of this, telling LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, “We have nothing add to what the attorney general has already said.”
Culberson raised the same issues in a February letter to Humetewa copied to Mukasey noting, “Your primary duty is to protect our citizens by enforcing our laws and you have clearly failed in that task.”
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SCHIAVONE: Kitty, Congressman Culberson whose constituents actually include the parents of President Bush says he has tried to be tactful, to get something done for the citizens of these cross border communities. Also at this week’s hearing, Kitty, Culberson asked the attorney general if he would recommend imprisoned former border patrol agents Ramos and Compean for a presidential pardon.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…