Posted on 06/07/2018 9:20:36 AM PDT by Simon Green
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is offering free legal help to a pizza delivery man who was detained by immigration authorities when he tried to deliver an order to a military base in Brooklyn.
Cuomo is offering to pay for Pablo Villavicencio's legal fees through the Legal Defense Project.
"Detaining a hardworking man, separating a father from his children and tearing apart communities doesn't make America safe, and a wrong minded immigration policy grounded in bias and cruelty doesn't make America great," Gov. Cuomo said in a statement.
Villavicencio was detained by ICE officials on June 1 when he tried to deliver a pizza to the Fort Hamilton military base in Brooklyn.
When Villavicencio arrived on the base he was directed to the Visitor Control Center to get a daily pass, according to a statement sent to ABC News by the Fort Hamilton base.
He signed a waiver permitting a background check, and officials were notified that an active ICE warrant was on his file, the statement said.
“The arrest of Pablo with a municipal ID is sending shockwaves throughout the immigrant community,” Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. “It was alright to take his pizza but it was also alright to put him in prison.”
ICE released a statement saying Villavicencio was granted voluntary departure by an immigration judge in 2010 but failed to depart the country by the July date that was ordered.
His voluntary order became a final order of removal and became an ICE fugitive, according to the statement. He is in ICE custody pending removal.
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Out of his own pocket, I hope
So, if you illegally enter the USA we can’t remove people without a trial? Oh good grief we’re so screwed as a nation...
“Governor Cuomo offers free legal help to pizza deliveryman facing deportation”
Just one law breaker to another!
He is an ICE fugitive for crying out loud - send him back.
Let’s follow our laws or will boy Cuomo allow me to drive 100mph on the NYS Thruway?
Good legal citizens...
“F you!”, Governor Cuomo
Rumor has NYS losing another 1 to 2 House seats after the next census. Andy needs warm bodies.
“”The arrest of Pablo with a municipal ID””
What’s that?
What makes America great, Governor, is that we are committed to being a nation of LAWS. They SHOULD be equally applied to everyone. (I know that is a stretch for you and your kind, Gov, but it IS what has made this nation great and different from every other ever tried.)
OK, so Cuomo and Pablo can share a jail cell. Pablo for violating our border laws and Cuomo for aiding and abetting a felon. How fun!
Surely, thou doth jest.
The taxpayers will pay a premium price for lousy pizza.
You don’t do for one, what you can’t or won’t do for all. He’s opening up a big can of worms for himself, and I hope it backfires in his ugly face.
American kids use to work jobs.
Even Mark Steyn who is filling in for Rush missed the fact that this Guy was ordered to leave the Country back in 2010. You know, when Lord Obama was running things.
I love how these facts are irrelevant when these stories come out. You shouldn’t have to hunt down the details in order to know what really happened.
I guess Cuomo has no respect for the Judiciary, if he disagrees with them of course.
It’s not free, he is picking the pockets of legal New Yorkers and giving to an illegal that has no right to be in America.
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