Posted on 01/08/2025 4:44:52 PM PST by Libloather
Suffolk County taxpayers could be on the hook for $60 million in a migrant class-action lawsuit for holding on to illegal immigrants until the feds could show up and ship them out of the country, officials said Wednesday.
A federal judge ruled that the sheriff’s office in the Long Island county acted on its own when it held undocumented immigrants for deportation proceedings — because New York State law doesn’t allow local cops to do so.
Adding insult to injury, the judge says the feds won’t have to chip in to pay off the hefty ruling — even though they’re the ones who wanted the migrants held in the first place.
“This is one of those things that makes me shake my head,” Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said at a press conference Wednesday. “We have a lot of ways to spend $60 million — but it’s not paying back illegal immigrants, many of whom are here on criminal charges for violating our laws.
“Taxpayers are liable for honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ICE — who asked us to detain prisoners who were here unlawfully in the United States,” Romaine said.
“We honored the requests of ICE and Homeland Security to detain these prisoners so they can be processed and, I assume, be deported by ICE,” the county executive said. “We are now being sued for detaining them at the request of the federal government.”
Filed in 2017 in the name of two migrants — but representing a class of hundreds — the suit sought damages because the plaintiffs were held by Suffolk County until federal immigration agents could show up and take them into custody for civil deportation proceedings.
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Illegal aliens have constitutional rights? Sounds like a new invention.
They should protest loudly outside the judges home- you know like they did to Kavanuagh...
So illegals have rights. Criminals in court and in jail have rights. Hunter Biden has rights.
Who doesn’t?
Average American citizen crime victims.
Taxpayers.
Constitutional rights for those here illegally? Talk about insanity. Time to evaluate these as-hole judges that make up rules as they go along.
Appropriate name for judge.
Judges should have allowable judgement amounts. Lower judges shouldn’t be able to judge millions
Constitutional rights for those here illegally? Talk about insanity. Time to evaluate these as-hole judges that make up rules as they go along.
WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW
Tell the judge to pound sand.
Dare him to do anything about it.
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What a country!
Constitutional rights is right! What does our Constitution say about alien “rights”?
I thought the Constitution laid out American citizen rights.
If you’re not a citizen, you have much more limited rights.
Is this a DEI appointment?
“WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW”
Not a fine. A lawsuit. He ruled they didn’t follow their law.
These corrupt, Leftist judges are really stupid.
And Trump has no rights. Due Process suspended.
Non-citizens have no rights, no standing. Any filing by or on behalf of illegals should be rejected.
Any judge accepting such a case has violated the law and should be immediately disbarred, removed from the bench and have severe due process applied.
Enough of this evil case law!
They should just deport the attorneys that took on the class action suit, and the judge that ruled in their favor.
Illegals should have NO right to sue an American or an American company.
And they are criminals who came across our border illegally.
“To now penalize the county using taxpayers’ dollars for following the law as it was interpreted at this time is unjustifiable,” Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. said.
Sheriff Toulon, who currently oversees a thousand inmates in Suffolk County jails was not in charge when the county started assisting ICE and Homeland Security in 2016. He was elected toward the end in 2018.
“When New York State determined that we could no longer honor ICE detainers later that year, we immediately complied ceasing the practice following the courts decisions,” Toulon said.
Suffolk County attorney Chris Clayton says the county also wants immunity.
“We think that the court failed to recognize some of the arguments that we’ve already made,” Clayton said.
New York, you have a problem.
Wonder how this is in
Chicago, might be why that is phase One?
WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW
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