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Posted on 04/14/2008 7:09:31 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
SALEM — Some illegal immigrants facing serious criminal charges are avoiding prosecution — with the help of the government — thanks to what prosecutors say is a gaping hole in the state's bail law.
Take the case of Carlos Enrique Lugo, also known as Albert Varga, who was charged with heroin trafficking on the North Shore. If convicted, he faced a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison.
A judge ordered him held on $50,000 bail, and he sat in Middleton Jail for several months.
Then, last November, a Dorchester woman walked into the jail with a bag of cash and posted Lugo's bail — even though Lugo was also wanted by immigration authorities for being in the country illegally, and would immediately be turned over to them.
That's exactly what Lugo wanted, prosecutor Michael Patten told a judge earlier this year.
Once in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, Lugo was brought before an immigration judge. He immediately waived his right to challenge his deportation and asked for immediate removal — something immigration officials were legally bound to carry out.
A week after Lugo was sent back to the Dominican Republic, the woman who posted his bail showed up at Salem Superior Court looking for the $50,000 she had posted.
(Excerpt) Read more at salemnews.com ...
Cue the Howie Carr “Roach Coach” music.
Why not? It's hers. He appeared where he was supposed to appear and did what he was supposed to do. Whatever else the double-named dope-pusher did, he did not jump bail.(BTW, en español, one has rather more latitude in the name matter than we mired in the stodgy and inflexible Anglo-Saxon tradition)
Too bad they couldn’t have tattooed “property of the Dominican Republic” on his forehead before deporting him.
Seriously, it seems to me that any illegal who is deported ought to have to provide retinal scans, finger prints and DNA samples before being sent home.
Then, if caught again within our borders, he should at least be sentenced to three years hard labor building the Wall.
read the article, it looks like they found a pretty nifty loophole.
get caught > get deported > get new identity > get back into the USA.
I’m afraid the War on Illegal Immigration is going to turn into the clusterf*ck like the War on Drugs. Pragmatism will lose out to the zero-tolerance ninnies.
Instead of just deporting these criminals, so they can either prey on their native countrymen or US Citizens, we should work with their native country to throw them in jail for a few years. We’ll up our foreign aid so they can build and more prisons - we get the criminals off both streets & creating jobs reducing the enticement to sneak across the border.
If he failed to show for his hearing, bail is forfeited. It’s his problem about how to make it for the hearing, not the government’s.
You need to read the full article.
yeah I saw this headline on the Salem News (a newspaper box for the
S.N. up in Beverly) just now. thanks for posting!
‘Zackly.
I had the same thing posted on Putfile, but they delete them after a couple of months. < |:(~
Oregon Ping!
If we were smart we’d be on the I-5 corridor handing out the speech by Mayor Newsom where he welcomes the illegal aliens with open arms to San Francisco.
“SAN FRANCISCO — A series of recent immigration raids in the Bay Area is prompting Mayor Gavin Newsom to pledge that San Francisco will remain a so-called “sanctuary city.”
Newsom promised that San Francisco officials won’t help federal authorities in conducting raids in a speech on Sunday to about 300 mostly Latino members of St. Peter’s Church.” [snip]
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267825,00.html
Yep - let’s send all of the foreign invaders to Frisco!!!
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Wrong Salem. Thanks for all you do, regardless.
Wrong Salem. This one is known for witches, and now illegals.
LOL at me. ;o) I am SO busted!
I didn’t have time to click the link, so I read only the excerpt. That’ll teach me...
In my defense, though, reading the excerpt could lead one to believe that it was about Salem, OR. That’s just the kind of thing that goes on here.
Ping!
No question. Her money. Want relief? Drop a dime on her at the IRS.
But with the number of illegals in and out of the system and the Hispanic penchant for name re-arranging, it is a bit of a tall order. Which is why my advice to Van to drop a dime on the bailor at the IRS is probably pretty silly. We have no idea who illegals are ... they are .... well, illegal. They come and go as they please under a variety of names and often with false documentation for each.
And I don't mean to single out Hispanics. Albanian and Russian mobsters, not mention to countless Asian bad boys work the ID scam, too. Illegal immigration numbers ... I believe upwards of 25 million+ ... make all our criminal ID systems largely unworkable except for citizens and legal residents.
Yes I disagree with the Gov's estimate on the numbers. I think they counted LA County, then went to lunch,(at our expense) leaving the 10-12 million number set in concrete.
>>the bail law allows someone to get his or her money back if a person cannot appear in court due to an act of God or the government.<<
Government deported the man, he can’t appear for Court. Not his fault. She gets her money back.
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