Posted on 03/28/2017 8:30:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’re seeing a theme in media coverage of deportations this month and much of it centers around whether or not ICE should be arresting illegal immigrants in or around courthouse grounds. The New York Daily News tossed out another grenade in the debate this week and they employ the increasingly common tactic of finding someone they view as being relatively benign to pose as the face of the illegal immigrant community which is currently “under attack” by Donald Trump’s administration. The subject of this story is Floyel Stapleton, an illegal alien from the Caribbean who was recently arrested while leaving a court appearance in Manhattan. And he’s not happy about it.
When Floyel Stapleton appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court for a routine hearing in his misdemeanor assault case , he was stunned to be met by federal immigration agents as he left the courtroom.
“I didn’t know they were there. They were in plain clothes. They had no badges and they arrested me when I was walking out of the courtroom. They just asked my name and they arrested me,” Stapleton, 39, who is from the Caribbean island of Nevis, told the Daily News from an immigration detention center in Hudson County.
“They are trying to deport me…The situation sucks.”
If you’re just skimming the top paragraphs of the story, Floyel comes off as a sympathetic character who was only at the courthouse for an appearance in a “misdemeanor assault case” (which can mean almost anything). You need to read quite a bit further into the story before learning that a representative of the Office of Court Administration (OCA) described Stapleton’s situation as “complicated” because of his long rap sheet.
I’ll say it’s complicated. I don’t know what the current assault charges relate to, but he’d previously been involved with the law for drug dealing and a domestic violence charge. Just to put a cherry on top of that saga, ICE had already taken him in and scheduled him for deportation in 2007, but the case was dropped for reasons which are not made clear . And now he’s in trouble again, being processed for deportation and has managed to enlist the press on his side to make it seem as if he’s the victim in the situation.
And all of this is being set up as a backdrop to an ongoing debate over whether or not ICE should be looking for illegal aliens in and around courthouses. I’ve been digesting all manner of stories coming from this argument and for the life of me I still can’t understand how this became an issue in the first place. There is nothing illegal about this, though it has been unofficial policy in the past to avoid enforcement encounters in such places where possible. But sometimes it’s not possible.
The activists trying to support illegal aliens like Stapleton certainly have the municipal government on their side. Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is currently drawing up legislation to ban ICE from city courts. I can’t wait to see that one get challenged if she manages to get it passed. The courthouse is part of the law enforcement system. Are we seriously at the point where we’re going to ban law enforcement officers from a center of law enforcement? And all of this is in response to what the activists admit are somewhere between two and five instances where ICE made an arrest in the vicinity of a courthouse.
There’s some serious madness sweeping the nation right now and it has nothing to do with college basketball. Floyel Stapleton thinks this “sucks.” I’d have to agree, but probably for very different reasons.
There’s only one way to describe the mainstream media: America-hating. Mexico deports illegals, and the media is fine with it. What’s the difference? Only when the U.S. does something that everyone else does, is it bad.
That’s been a favorite leftist tactic for fifty years. Find one person somewhere that’s affected, get them on stage or in front of the camera, lots of tears, lots of disbelief that this could be happening to them, lots of accusations that “Republicans Don’t Care About [fill in the blank]”, etc.
I think it sucks when people come here illegally.
Get him outta here.
Yeah, the law’s a drag Floyel.
There are so many things I could be doing if they weren’t illegal.
Get him outta here.
with an illegal `islander' under each arm.
We have to deport all of the illegals in order to see how great America will be without them.
Good. Hope the POS is miserable.
“ICE had already taken him in and scheduled him for deportation in 2007, but the case was dropped for reasons which are not made clear”
So this mfing “islander” had had an additioal NINE YEARS here to break our laws thanks to the Obola Administration.
“They had no badges and they arrested me”
Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.
Pre-Nixon Local Law Enforcement handled most deportations and not the Feds. LLE had several points of deportation:
1) They encounter an immigrant who admits he is not a citizen and the immigrant is clearly a bad guy. They put him on the plane to Europe or Phillipines or the bus to Mexico. Sometimes he is given a choice, jail or deportation and chooses the deportation option. Sometimes he is not given a choice.
2) They encounter an immigrant in the court process and deport him very similar to what is allegedly occurring now.
3) An immigrant is scheduled to go to court. His attorney realizes he will be found guilty. He is deported as part of a plea bargain, often while keeping his record clean.
4) An immigrant completes his jail time is released. LLE is waiting for him and deports him.
I observed, participated in, and/or instigated all of these in the 60s in Chicago. This was before Miranda. This was before criminals became snowflakes who had to be handled with kid gloves.
In some cases, the illegal immigrant would go to the Ward Committeeman or an assistant who was a Court Clerk or Sheriff deputy. Money would be paid and the illegal immigrant would promise to vote and get his friends and family to vote for the ward committeeman’s slate.
Back in the 60s, it was very common for illegals from Europe and the Phillipines to use the political organizations to buy SSN card, Drivers License, Voters card. It was not possible for an illegal Hispanic to do so ... Until Oscar Lopez effectively organized them and forced the machine to buckle and grant equality to Hispanic immigrants in access to corruption.
I’d like to say bye,bye sucker.Enjoy your trip home.Don’t come back.
It’s so sad that criminals cannot profit from their crimes? Sorry, but I’m not buying the media narrative.
He will be fine Nevis by its very nature is a vibrant diverse cultural treasure trove of greatness, and tolerant too.
“Pre-Nixon Local Law Enforcement handled most deportations and not the Feds. LLE had several points of deportation:”
It was handled more or less as an administrative process. It wasn’t until Clinton that the whole immigration court due process scheme took off. About half of the 12 million deported during Clintons years were ordered removals.
What sucks is illegals sucking the American taxpayer dry.
I don’t know anyone who at 39 is in court for assault charges....unless they are drunk or high
Hahaha. Get out!!!
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