From the Daily News:Immigrants with criminal records who are desperate to stay in the U.S. are flooding courts across the city with pleas to have old convictions tossed, the Daily News has learned.
A revved-up effort by the feds to rid the country of ex-cons is sowing fear that a decades-old petty theft or drug-dealing case could mean a one-way ticket out of New York.
Noncitizens are bombarding judges with requests to have convictions vacated on the grounds they were never told that pleading guilty to a minor crime could lead to deportation.
Among those who have filed petitions is Carlos Sanchez, who was 17 in 1991 when he punched a man in the face and stole his parka during a fight a few blocks from his Sunnyside, Queens, home.
The following year, he pleaded guilty to attempted assault and robbery and spent 18 months in an upstate prison.
After getting out of prison, Sanchez, now 37, stayed out of trouble for 17 years - holding jobs as a welder and construction worker. He's married and has a 3-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son.
In May, the Department of Homeland Security notified him that it was seeking to send him back to Spain, which he left with his parents as a youth.
11 comments:
Bravo! Bueno!
Deport this budding criminal trash before it gets a chance to grow!
im confused if they are illegal then send them all home who cares about there stories they are here illegal plain and simple
Everyone needs to go home and stay there. Cut off all medical and welfare payments to these criminals and watch the city coffers fill up with cash. The middle class can't pay for these illegals anymore. We are out of work now and are struggling. No one gives anything to us.
18 months for punching someone and taking their coat?
I thought they gave them two days of community service for something like that.
Noncitizens are bombarding judges with requests to have convictions vacated on the grounds they were never told that pleading guilty to a minor crime could lead to deportation.
Our taxes are paying for these jerks to flood the legal system with frivolous requests?
After getting out of prison, Sanchez, now 37, stayed out of trouble for 17 years - holding jobs as a welder and construction worker. He's married and has a 3-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son.
Cue the crocodile tears from the usual chorus of fey liberals who frequent the comments section on this blog........
In May, the Department of Homeland Security notified him that it was seeking to send him back to Spain, which he left with his parents as a youth.
Spain is fiscally bankrupt.
Carlos Sanchez is morally bankrupt.
It's a match made in heaven!!!
SEND HIM BACK!!!!!
this no fare punching and borrowing clothing is no crime in my country just misunderstanding i hope mike bloomburg fix this. new contract for section 8 help say if you get into problem wile drunk city take away your gorcery tickets and rent payment this no fare italian landlord drink the wine ?
fonso
Great News.....Bye Bye!
Punch someone in the face to steal their coat, who want this ex-con around : he's apt to do it again - send him back to Spain or where-ever! We don't want him here, period.
The optimum word here is ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL. Bye bye, so long, good riddens, get the hell out of this country. Sob stories don't cut it....you are an ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!
Illegal.....Bye
I think we should give them chance by not criticizing them. Deportation is the best way but still it should be on selected person, persons who are illegally staying but to those who commits crime they should be punished in this country.
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