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Posada “a danger to the national security of the
United States,” states Office of Immigration and
Customs
MIAMI (U.S.A.), March 30 (EFE)—The
United States is maintaining terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles in jail because his release would represent
a danger “to both the community and the national
security of the United States,” according to an
official document.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of
Homeland Security explained to Posada Carriles in a
letter – to which EFE had access today – the reasons
for keeping him in custody in its detention center
in El Paso, Texas.
“Because of your long history of
criminal activity and violence in which innocent
civilians were killed, your release from detention
would pose a danger to both the community and the
national security of the United States,” the ICE
noted in the letter.
Last week, that same government
agency informed the media that the extremist,
accused of terrorism by Cuba and Venezuela, would
continue to be detained, without specifying any
reasons, and confirmed that it would continue to
seek a third country for his deportation.
Eduardo Soto, Posada Carriles’s
lawyer, told EFE today it must be proven that his
client is a “threat to the population of the United
States.”
Soto is to file a lawsuit in a
Texas federal court for his client’s release.
In the letter, the ICE says that
Posada Carriles has a history of participation in
criminal activities and of associating with
individuals involved in that type of situation.
He is also accused of
“participating in violent actions that indicate
contempt for public security and has a propensity to
be associated with activities that represent a risk
for the national security of the United States.”
The ICE added that public
information and “his own statements link him to the
planning and coordination” of a series of bomb
attacks on restaurants and hotels in Cuba.
Likewise, it says that Posada
Carriles, a native of Cuba with Venezuelan
citizenship, was tried in Panama for crimes against
the national security of that country, and was
sentenced to prison, and that he escaped from a
Venezuelan jail after an acquittal of charges
against him was overturned in an appeal.
“Your expertise in assuming false
identities, your disregard of U.S. immigration laws,
your history of escape and the presence of your
pending extradition request demonstrate that you
pose a significant risk of fleeing if released from
custody,” the ICE letter said, according to an
AFP cable likewise published on March 31.
“Further, you have shown a
cavalier attitude toward the impact your actions
have had on the safety and well-being of persons and
property,” the AFP quotes the letter as saying.
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