Posted on 02/22/2017 2:14:18 AM PST by SMGFan
The city should stop making arrests for minor offenses like fare beating to avoid setting more people up for deportation, a city lawmaker and legal aid groups said Tuesday. Under President Trumps new hardline immigration policies, an undocumented immigrant becomes a priority for deportation if charged with any criminal offense. And people who get arrested have their fingerprints sent to the feds.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents have even been waiting outside Manhattan misdemeanor arraignment courts in recent days to nab people after their court appearances, according to New York County Defender Services
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Not at all. Objecting to the constant misrepresentations of everything Trump does.
So, we should no prosecute illegals for petty crime but legal citizens should be?
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That’s the way it’s been for at least the last 30 years.. Mexicans can drive without licenses or insurance , drunk if they want to and bring vans full of teenage hookers to the farms to pimp out to other Mexicans while they collect all kinds of housing cash , medical and food assistance and send their kids to my school to drag their education down to their level.
Me? I am a citizen , I have entries in every listing and database there is ,, I can’t escape the gov’t on anything.. I pay their bills and so do you.
Of course. Laws are for little people.
He's made it pretty clear that he wants to deport the larger population of felons first, not misdemeanor cases. If agents are waiting outside a misdemeanor court, there is nothing to say that a known felon could not have also committed a misdemeanor and this is an appropriate place to make the arrest.
Meanwhile; on the OTHER side of the continent...
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