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Tish James Went Silent on Downgrading Charges for Illegal Immigrants — Now We Know Why
redstate.com ^ | November 9, 2026 | Rusty Weiss

Posted on 11/12/2026 6:26:58 AM PST by lowbridge

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) smiled and said nothing when confronted over a House Judiciary Committee report alleging the city's district attorneys instructed prosecutors to downgrade charges against illegal aliens to shield them from deportation.

Now a former top ICE official in New York is explaining why that question may have been so uncomfortable. 

Scott Mechkowski, a retired deputy field office director for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City, says Bronx DA Darcel Clark's (D) playbook for child sex abuse cases was designed to keep deportable offenders here.

It's quite sickening when you think about it.

Mechkowski, in a lengthy post on X earlier today, pointed to a single line in a 2019 Bronx training guide, as reproduced in the House Judiciary Committee report. Prosecutors, according to the report, were told to "[o]ffer something that does not have the child's age as an element of the crime."

"Think about what that means," he continued. "A grown man commits a sex crime against a child. He pleads to something that, on paper, could have been against an adult. The record that reaches ICE no longer shows a child victim."

"The removal case falls apart, and he stays here."

Mechkowski pointed out that the child is not the beneficiary of any such deal the way the criminal illegal alien is and, in fact, has to live with what was done to them while the abuser gets to continue hanging around the same neighborhood.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrattruth; illegalimmigration; illegaltruth; immigration; liberaltruth; newyork; tishjames

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1 posted on 11/12/2026 6:26:58 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

“Tish” should be sitting in a federal prison for a long period of time.


2 posted on 11/12/2026 6:32:34 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: lowbridge

This practice is nothing new. When I was an INS Special Agent in the Boston district judges routinely sentenced aliens to 364 days either in custody or suspended because immigration law sets the bar for certain crimes at 365 days or more. The joke used to be “the case isn’t over until the alien wins”. Not much has changed since then.


3 posted on 11/12/2026 6:38:01 AM PST by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: lowbridge

Face it folks. The majority of American voters have embraced lunacy. Lettia James is exactly the type of person who achieves high office in a country that has embraced neo pagan hedonism and decadence. Things will get much worse. Will a persecuted faithful remnant one day lead to a renewal? Sorry but probably not in our lifetime.


4 posted on 11/12/2026 7:02:24 AM PST by allendale
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To: SharpRightTurn

Nothing would tickle me more than if “Tish” was heavily prosecuted & then sent in for a lifetime sentence. That woman has been more trouble than she will ever be worth.


5 posted on 11/12/2026 7:02:56 AM PST by oldtech (oltech)
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To: lowbridge

Good job protecting the people of New York from invader criminals like these:

“Guatemalan Illegal Charged for Raping Underage Girl, Attacking Police in Sanctuary New York”

“Ecuadorian Illegal Charged With Multiple Rapes in New York’s Swanky Hamptons”

“African Illegal Charged for Kidnapping, Stabbing Teen Girl in Sanctuary Maryland AFTER Being Released by Biden and NYC Officials”


6 posted on 11/12/2026 7:07:13 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: oldtech

Nah...an alien should take care of her...


7 posted on 11/12/2026 7:08:47 AM PST by goodnesswins (Most Congress Critters should be referred to as what they are....LOOTERS)
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To: oldtech

We all know that nothing will ever happen to Miss Tish. She holds all 3 cards. Black. Female. DemocRAT.


8 posted on 11/12/2026 7:18:36 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: lowbridge

How are they not aiding and abetting sex crimes against children? Our federal justice system is a clown show if they let these state thugs remain free.


9 posted on 11/12/2026 7:44:29 AM PST by HKPhooey
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To: lowbridge

She is one wise ghettopotamus.


10 posted on 11/12/2026 8:32:21 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald. אני עומד לצד ישראל)
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To: lowbridge
Obviously they wanted them to vote in our elections, as they did a week ago.

So her investment paid off handsomely.

Don't know how they got everyone on our side to remain silent about the obvious steal though.

I haven't figured that one out yet.

11 posted on 11/12/2026 8:35:26 AM PST by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

12 posted on 11/12/2026 9:08:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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