[edsheppa]

The appeals court probably has it right. Martinez committed a crime entering the country, and he could certainly be arrested and deported for that (why the hell isn’t he?), but that prior crime doesn’t necessarily invalidate a probation the way the trial judge reasoned.

[Old Professer]

The remedy you suggest is still at hand only because the judge who was overruled made sure that this offender could still be found if she was overturned; as you say, arrest him now on illegal entry charges and hold him for ICE.

Tomorrow, rewrite the law.

[JasonC]

Nope, first judge was right and second is a jackass. There is no such thing as a law abiding illegal alien. And that is the category the second judge is magically trying to conjure into existence. Like a round square, it is a contradiction in terms, and trying to wish it into existence is futile sophistry.