We invite you in our country, and this is how you behave

The Red Star staff loves criminals, and frequently runs stories which have an overt agenda, which typically involves garnering public sympathy for the societal misfit of the week. (In the interest of full disclosure, Rambix harbors no sympathy and very little compassion for those who choose to victimize society, especially when they are a guest of our country, or receive benefit of our largesse in one way or another).

Today's Red Star hero is actually a figure from the past, Keyse Jama, convicted felon. The Strib doesn't disappoint in their mission to put a friendly face on felon Jama in today's profile. It seems there are some problems getting Mr. Jama back to Somalia on deportation orders, as they have no government, and no single authority to accept his return. Mr. Jama's case, as you may recall, reached the Supreme Court, which correctly ruled that he can be returned to the feverswamp from whence he came. The government tried to return Mr. Jama through an intermediary, but he was rejected.

"After serving a brief sentence for third-degree assault in 1999, Jama lost his refugee status. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) detained him for deportation. His lawyers argued that he could not be deported to war-torn Somalia, a country with no formal government in place to accept him. A Minneapolis district court ruled in his favor, then the appeals court against him. Jama brought his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in January on a 5-4 vote that he could be deported."

He served a "brief sentence" for third degree assault, and then has been kept in jail for more than 4 years while the government was working on his deportation. Hmmm. Shouldn't he have been in jail or prison for that whole time for the crime anyway? 3rd degree assault is serious business. Maybe lenient judges are one reason why this criminal is in Minnesota in the first place.

Here's Mr. Jama's reaction upon being released from prison:

"Today is my lucky day," Jama said, grinning from an armchair in the sparely (sic) furnished Woodbury home of his aunt and uncle as Ayub shyly mugged with a pair of Harry Potter eyeglasses (ed. - isn't that just the cutest?).

Rambix finds this part hard to believe:

"...Jama described the Washington County guards as sympathetic. "When I left, they were shouting, 'Ja-ma!, Ja-ma!' "he said."

Mr. Jama, we have enough criminals here in Minnesota already, thank you very much. We're not opposed to "foreigners" coming to our state legally to live and work, but if you choose to be a criminal, then you're out. Illinois and Michigan are keeping us plenty busy with the criminal pipeline to our generous state. Therefore, begone with ye.