Extradition

Ha! I’m kidding, gotcha didn’t I. In fact I don’t even think I should be prosecuted at all, I’m on non-extradition soil. You can’t touch me, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Even if you try I’ll write a letter to your precious little president as a plea against “discrimination” and “crimes against my species”. And if all else fails, I’ll simply charm the people you…

Several U.S. children are adopted abroad. Families in the US adopted 8,668 children from abroad in 2012. There are several international treaties and conventions regulating the procedural intercountry adoption of children. When possible, the US prefers to enter into multilateral agreements over bilateral ones, because of the difficulty in getting the Senate to ratify international agreements (Office of Children’s Issues). Those agreements include: Inter-American Convention on Conflict of Laws…

The Sinaloa Cartel has fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of becoming the dominant drug trafficking organization in the country and more decentralized structure of loosely linked smaller organization. (Beittel, 2013) Began in 2008, Bush as President of United State and Calderon as President of Mexico agreed to development effort transforming the bilateral relationship by a security agreement package of United States assistance…

Special police units may be able to fight organized crime in their own countries, but are easily halted once the criminals cross borders; although other countries may try and cooperate with police units, responses are considerably delayed and extradition treaties present considerable legal difficulties even when perpetrators are arrested. As a result, there is very little multinational, coordinated effort to fight organized…

In return, the threat of extradition was lifted and Escobar was allowed to build his own luxury prison called “La Catedral,” which was guarded by men he handpicked from among his employees. The prison lived up to its name and came complete with a casino, spa and nightclub.” Escobar…

In 1790 the first naturalization law formed was known as the Nationality Act. This act “restricted citizenship to “any alien, being free white person” who had been in the U.S. for two years” (Densho Encyclopedia). It excluded indentured servants, slaves, and most women, but would later be applied to African Americans, and Asian immigrants on regards to them not being eligible to be naturalized. It is from the Nationality Act that the Naturalization Act of 1798 was founded. The Naturalization…

The United States decided that they needed a stronger document to live by. Originally, the United States followed The Articles of Confederation, which was very weak. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates from each state voted for the stronger document, the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution established laws, the national government, and guaranteed certain rights for each and every U.S. citizen. The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787. The United States Constitution…

abduction of Doctor Alvarez-Machain made it to the Supreme Court on two separate occasions, in which the Court sided with the United States both times. Subsequently, after establishing legal precedence involving Alien Tort claims, and forcible extradition both abducted individuals were released to Mexico due to lack of…

Lastly, one episode of Star Trek is a clear statement on racism and its inherent disutility. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (airdate 1/10/69) is about two half-white half-black beings from the planet Cheron who bring their senseless racial struggle to the Enterprise. Lokai is the first to come aboard the Enterprise- he arrives in a stolen shuttlecraft asking for asylum. His pursuer, Bele, soon afterwards arrives on the Enterprise asking to take Lokai back to their home planet to stand trial…

In writing Rogue Justice, The Making of the Security State, author Karen J. Greenberg has created an insightful, and telling account of how dangerously close America came to losing many of the freedoms afforded to us in the Bill of Rights following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is certainly accurate about Rouge Justice when he explained that the book is “a must read for anyone who cares about the…