Posted on 05/27/2014 3:13:02 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Rosario Socope, a Guatemalan immigrant in the country illegally, had an unwelcome surprise waiting for her when she attended a pretrial hearing on a felony charge at a courthouse in Brooklyn this month. As she stepped out of the courtroom into a public hallway, she was approached by immigration agents seeking to deport her.
As her husband, her social worker and one of her lawyers looked on aghast, the agents hauled her away.
The encounter was only the most recent in a long series of such cases across the country that immigrant advocates and politicians say have spread fear of courthouses among immigrants and eroded their willingness to participate in the judicial system, with profound civil rights implications.
“If they feel like the court is not a safe place where they can go, they may not show up to court,” said Nyasa Hickey, Ms. Socope’s immigration lawyer.
For years, even as the number of deportations has climbed to record levels, immigration agents have generally refrained from questioning or detaining immigrants in and around locations deemed “sensitive,” including schools, houses of worship, hospitals and public demonstrations.
Now a growing lobby of immigrants’ advocates and politicians is seeking to add courthouses to that list.
Advocates argue that the use of courthouses by immigration officials deters undocumented immigrants from exercising their constitutional rights of due process; petitioning for redress of grievances, such as wage claims against employers; and satisfying their civic duties, such as paying traffic tickets.
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Setting all the other factors aside, why do "advocates" want her to be protected from ICE?
How about instead we make the entire US off limits to illegal aliens!
And when she kills someone the media will say ‘we never saw this coming’.
Its another example of the forever lying Lamestream media, as in this case, where a giant half-truth communicates a lie.
The giant half truth is contained in the following, text:
“The encounter was only the most recent in a long series of such cases across the country that immigrant advocates and politicians say have spread fear of courthouses among immigrants and eroded their willingness to participate in the judicial system, with profound civil rights implications. “
but the proper translation is:
“The encounter was only the most recent in a long series of such cases across the country that ILLEGAL immigrant advocates and politicians say have spread fear of courthouses among ILLEGAL immigrants and eroded ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT’S willingness to participate in the judicial system, with profound civil rights implications.”
By lying with the omission of the word “illegal” the NYSlimes attempts to paint the issue as an issue for all “immigrants” when it is not an issue for ANY legal immigrant, only an ILLEGAL immigrant.
And in fact there is no “civil right” to be an ILLEGAL immigrant.
I feel her pain, and it feels great!
At least someone is still doing their job at ICE
Court should always be a scary place for felons.
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