From the NY Post:
An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after city lawyers decided his civil rights had been violated when he was held too long on Rikers Island.
Federal rules allow local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for 48 hours after their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal facilities.
Former Brooklyn resident Cecil Harvey, 55 -- backed by an immigration-rights advocacy group -- argued that his rights were violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before being transferred to ICE.
Harvey was shipped to his native Barbados in October 2007; the city settled his civil suit late last year.
The landmark settlement has prompted the Correction Department to dump scores of illegal immigrants on the streets, since federal officials often fail to pick them up within the required two-day window.
Federal immigration agents have office space on Rikers Island, and the city allows them to interview roughly 4,000 inmates each year. They put a hold, or "detainer," on 3,200 of those inmates who they discover are illegals.
But ICE often fails to transfer those detainees within the required 48 hours of their criminal cases being resolved, multiple jail sources said.
"We just release them now," one high-ranking jail supervisor said. "It's ICE's problem to go find these guys."
Harvey, a 55-year-old father of three, with three prior arrests, spent 35 days on Rikers, when he should have been moved to ICE.
26 comments:
We are going to pay for this decision with big time terrorism. The law better be changed. While a month is excessive, 48 hours is probably unrealistic. At least give them a week since most of these people have criminal records and don't belong on the streets.
how much did the lawyers get?
The Dept of Corrections should turn around and bill this criminal for his room and board. That would take a chunck out of his settlement. No wonder other countries are laughing at us and our stupidity. Our entire government and laws need to be overhauled.
quick slug to the back of the head solves everything.
If corrections broke the law by holding them beyond the 48 hours allowed, why shouldn't the taxpayers be penalized?
How else can you pressure them to elect honest politicians who won't allow government agencies to break the law?
Look at Bernard Kerik the convicted felon, he had been in charge of this very same agency.
I wonder if he was the criminal who put this misguided policy in place?
how much did the lawyers get?
probably 1/3, but $100K will go a long way in Mexico!
If he's here Illegally he has NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS or CIVIL RIGHTS!!!!! Watch Out now their all gonna try the same crap:( America the streets are lined with Gold:( DEPORT ALL THE DIRT BAGS!!! Start on Northern Blvd. in FROOSHING!!!!!!!
I agree. Only citizens and documented aliens have rights in this country. Why are we wasting taxpayer money on legal aid for these people that are illegal? By the way: Illegal means NOT Legal. Against the law. Deport all of them. So tired of the new buzz word Undocumented. So PC
The Dept of Corrections should turn around and bill this criminal for his room and board.
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You cannot bill someone who is being held involuntarily.
I agree. Only citizens and documented aliens have rights in this country.
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So executing them shouldn't be illegal according to your logic.
So if it is an illegal immigrant boy it should be OK to throw him in a cvell with pedophiles too according to your logic.
Let's let all the tourists know that foreigners have no rights and are subject to illegal and immoral detention.
Illegals have no rights. When they think they do, it cheapens our citizenship. We should not be aiding and abetting criminals. We are supposed to be a nation of laws. Illegals break our laws. He shouldn't have been here in the first place.
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I agree. Only citizens and documented aliens have rights in this country.
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So executing them shouldn't be illegal according to your logic.
So if it is an illegal immigrant boy it should be OK to throw him in a cvell with pedophiles too according to your logic.
Let's let all the tourists know that foreigners have no rights and are subject to illegal and immoral detention.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Ohhh BOO HOOO!!! Who said anything about TOURIST!! Hello stop smoking that stuff:( We are talking about ILLEGALS, in case you don't know what that is I'll explain it SLAPPY CAKES :) A person that ENTERS THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY!!! CAN YOU READ WHAT I JUST WROTE??? And you have a PRETTY DEMENTED MIND TO EVEN FATHOM A BOY IN A CELL WITH PEDOPHILES!! What the hell are you on!!!!!
First off they are not immigrants they are no good blood sucking criminals from the bowels of the planet.
Get that right !
Thats why their home countrys are a total mess.
You bet execute them, Shoot them, no trial, no lawyers, shoot them crossing the desert and leave the bodys
Video tape it and put it on TV like they do in China.
They will stop coming alright
The Chinese have it right they don't put up with this BS
Has anybody heard of criminals getting paid or terrorist attack's in China ?
Boy, girl Illegal means is ILLEGAL now get that right
-Earl
www.nra.org
If all you people had any idea how many of your own ancestors entered this country "illegally" you'd be singing a different tune.
The world was full of disease a hundred years ago, the US had strict rules barring anyone who had been sick with a huge number of illnesses, millions got in by lying about their health status. Many others came as draft dodgers in their home countries,
It's easy to cast stones, but there are probably 100 million European Americans who would not be here right now if laws were applied then the way you all want them to be now.
Europeans and perpetually pregnant hordes of garbage behaving like Locusts are 2 different things.
Please list one thing Guatemalans, Mexicans or a single Central American contributed this country.
(besides Cocaine, cash baby's and Coffee)
You can't go back, you can only go forward. I live in the present. All I know is that the illegals are ruining our country and need to be deported. We can't afford them anymore. The illegal that was jailed wouldn't be there if he didn't illegally cross our border. He doesn't deserve a payout. Why are we paying for criminals? Get rid of the illegals and watch our fiscal problems disappear.
Im not buying this "our own ancestors entered this country illegally" Nonsense
Most those people your referring to came to this country to do something and be somebody. They also had skills.
There were no handouts, Medicaid, welfare, social programs, and sanctuary cities to lure them at that time.
These illegal trespassing criminal come here strictly for services and money to send home to bring more over.
The process then repeats. They have zero skills and want to live and behave like they do in their slum home countries. Destroying neighborhoods, plummeting property values and sucking tax money.
The laws need to be enforced, some changed to kick all these bums out.
Most of the white immigrants who came here a century ago had no skills at all. Maybe you should go back sometime and read newspaper archives from that era and you will see that the "natives" of that era said exactly the same things about the "unwashed" italian and eastern european immigrants that you say today about latinos and carribeans. They were vilified as "invaders" who were polluting the gene pool and wrecking the respectable and hard working Protestant U.S.A.
Illegal aliens are not immigrants !
I wont even address the nonsense in that last post
Immigration policy has become a joke...
When Ellis Island was in operation people were rejected for having an infectious disease.
Now, even if someone has a documented case of aids, they are allowed in. Why do you think TB is making a comeback?
And this is legal immigration!
Earl said...
First off they are not immigrants they are no good blood sucking criminals from the bowels of the planet.
Get that right !
DAMN RIGHT EARL!!!!! Tell it like it is!!! I agree:) And I'm a decendent of The Tsalagi Tribe aka Cherokee!!! I'm sick of jackasses always saying---> HOW DO YOU THINK THE NATIVES FELT!!! That was then this is now we can't change the past BUT WE WILL PROTECT OUR FUTURE FROM THESE LOW LIFE PIECES OF SHIT THAT COME HERE ILLEGALLY JUST TO R A P E AMEREICA!!!!!
Boy, apparently there is no middle ground in this debate.
I believe in the rule of law. It falls drop dead center between what the opposites here are saying.
I say send 'em back. Let US immigration laws read exactly as the immigration laws of Mexico.
If ya voted for Obama/Spitzer/Paterson/Schumer/Bloomberg, you got what they promised. If you didnt, fight harder next time and hope.. and change.
If a person has actually been before a judge and received a trial and found guilty, we cannot be talking Habeas Corpus.
In the meantime, I am sure there is a big difference between the average illegal alien and a convicted criminal and I would not lump both together since rape, murder etc. is more serious and reprehensible than falsifying paperwork.
---No middle ground or gray area legal defense Bullshit
ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL PERIOD.
At minimum these F_ing parasites broke dozens of laws, have no innoculation, carry disease and are trespassing.
All you people complaining about illegal immigrants are clueless about the U.S. economy. Fact is that there are countless employers out there that hire these people "off the books" and pay them below minimum wage and no benfits at all. Illegal immigrants know this and thats why they come here... to work the jobs all you so called legal Americans wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.
Crossing the border illegally is a problem but why not focus on the real problem... all of the so called American employers hiring these people and giving them reason to come here.
"Fact is that there are countless employers out there that hire these people "off the books" and pay them below minimum wage and no benfits at all. Illegal immigrants know this and thats why they come here... to work the jobs all you so called legal Americans wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole."
So you are admitting that the presence of illegals depresses prevailing wages for all?
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