Proposed Legislation Providing Consular Access Holds Lives in the Balance

Proposed Legislation Providing Consular Access Holds Lives in the Balance.. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Consular Notification Compliance Act, a long-awaited bill aimed at protecting the consular access rights of foreign nationals in U.S. custody who are charged or convicted of capital crimes. The act provides for judicial review of alleged violations of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations ("Vienna Convention") an international treaty the U.S. entered requiring foreign nationals detained to be notified "without delay" of their right to communicate with consular officers of their home country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ginny-sloan/proposed-legislation-provides-consular-access_b_876684.html

Mexicans blast execution of criminal alien murderer in Texas

Mexicans blast execution of criminal alien murderer in TX...Mexicans on both sides of the U.S.-MX border are protesting the upcoming execution of a criminal alien rapist and murderer scheduled for July 7, 2011, in TX...Because the convicted killer is a MX citizen, the Calderon government is questioning the procedures that were utilized in sentencing the death row prisoner, Humberto Leal Garcia. The MX ambassador to the U.S. requested this week that TX Gov. Rick Perry delay the execution until a review is completed of the sentencing procedures..Besides Garcia, 50 other Mexicans are sitting on death rows in the U.S. ..the Obama administration, which supports the bill, has threatened to withhold federal funding from states that stray from the rules of international treaties. His position angers U.S. Constitutionalists because it places foreign law on a par with U.S. founding documents and U.S. jurisprudence..."The message these leftist politicians wish to send the world is: come to America, kill and rape. You will not be executed,"

http://www.borderfirereport.net/jim-kouri/mexicans-blast-execution-of-criminal-alien-murderer-in-texas.php