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Long Island county told to pay $60M to illegal immigrants for detaining them — at federal government’s request: officials
NY Post ^ | 1/08/25 | Carl Campanile, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

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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In his 36-page ruling Thursday, US District Judge William Kuntz said the county violated the constitutional rights of the migrants because state law didn’t authorize the sheriff to hold them.

Illegal aliens have constitutional rights? Sounds like a new invention.

1 posted on 01/08/2025 4:44:52 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

They should protest loudly outside the judges home- you know like they did to Kavanuagh...


2 posted on 01/08/2025 4:48:54 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Libloather

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.


3 posted on 01/08/2025 4:50:33 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: God luvs America

Constitutional rights for those here illegally? Talk about insanity. Time to evaluate these as-hole judges that make up rules as they go along.


4 posted on 01/08/2025 4:52:16 PM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Libloather

Appropriate name for judge.


5 posted on 01/08/2025 4:54:35 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Libloather

Judges should have allowable judgement amounts. Lower judges shouldn’t be able to judge millions


6 posted on 01/08/2025 4:55:29 PM PST by ebshumidors ( )
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To: God luvs America

Constitutional rights for those here illegally? Talk about insanity. Time to evaluate these as-hole judges that make up rules as they go along.


7 posted on 01/08/2025 4:56:06 PM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Libloather

WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW


8 posted on 01/08/2025 4:56:08 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Libloather

Tell the judge to pound sand.

Dare him to do anything about it.

L


9 posted on 01/08/2025 4:59:09 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Libloather

What a country!


10 posted on 01/08/2025 5:00:56 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Libloather

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?


11 posted on 01/08/2025 5:02:36 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Skywise

“WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW”

Not a fine. A lawsuit. He ruled they didn’t follow their law.


12 posted on 01/08/2025 5:03:56 PM PST by TexasGator (1/|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: Libloather

These corrupt, Leftist judges are really stupid.


13 posted on 01/08/2025 5:05:11 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: frank ballenger

And Trump has no rights. Due Process suspended.


14 posted on 01/08/2025 5:07:01 PM PST by vivenne (7)
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To: Libloather

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!


15 posted on 01/08/2025 5:07:33 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Libloather

They should just deport the attorneys that took on the class action suit, and the judge that ruled in their favor.


16 posted on 01/08/2025 5:08:23 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Libloather

Illegals should have NO right to sue an American or an American company.

And they are criminals who came across our border illegally.


17 posted on 01/08/2025 5:09:35 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Libloather

https://abc7ny.com/post/suffolk-county-fights-back-federal-government-says-owe-60-million-assisting-ice-detain-650-people/15779438/

“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.


penalty for retro active interpretation of law?

New York, you have a problem.

Wonder how this is in
Chicago, might be why that is phase One?


18 posted on 01/08/2025 5:11:07 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: FamiliarFace
Obama appointee, no surprise.
19 posted on 01/08/2025 5:17:00 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: Skywise

WTF? You can’t fine people for following the LAW

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Derek Chauvin - who is and will be in prison for following the law - has not commented on this.


20 posted on 01/08/2025 5:30:25 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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