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Why illegal-immigrant criminals are begging to go to Rikers Island
Federal agents trying to deport illegal-immigrant criminals are hitting a new roadblock in New York City — crafty defense lawyers who will put their clients in jail to keep them in the country, The Post has learned.
A Legal Aid lawyer took the extreme measure in The Bronx Thursday, when she claimed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was waiting for her client and begged a judge to lock up the suspect.
The rookie judge — a Mayor de Blasio appointee — complied, setting $3,000 bail even though the defendant had been free for the six months since his arrest.
“I can’t believe this — every day Legal Aid is asking for no bail” for their clients, one insider told The Post.
“And now they’re asking for bail because even going to Rikers is better than being deported.”
Lawyers are also advising clients not to post even the lowest of bails so that they’ll go to Rikers Island rather than into the waiting arms of ICE agents, sources said.
The city last year evicted ICE from its offices at the jail as part of de Blasio’s “Sanctuary City” reforms — and no longer turn over many criminals who have detainer requests.
Hizzoner’s stance has led defense lawyers to ask judges to sentence their clients to just under a year in jail, so that they’ll remain in city custody rather than go into the state prison system....
Well, at least these illegals will be taken off the streets and locked up in jail for now, but Trump should send the National Guard into sanctuary cities to force compliance with federal law, tbqh.
Federal agents trying to deport illegal-immigrant criminals are hitting a new roadblock in New York City — crafty defense lawyers who will put their clients in jail to keep them in the country, The Post has learned.
A Legal Aid lawyer took the extreme measure in The Bronx Thursday, when she claimed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was waiting for her client and begged a judge to lock up the suspect.
The rookie judge — a Mayor de Blasio appointee — complied, setting $3,000 bail even though the defendant had been free for the six months since his arrest.
“I can’t believe this — every day Legal Aid is asking for no bail” for their clients, one insider told The Post.
“And now they’re asking for bail because even going to Rikers is better than being deported.”
Lawyers are also advising clients not to post even the lowest of bails so that they’ll go to Rikers Island rather than into the waiting arms of ICE agents, sources said.
The city last year evicted ICE from its offices at the jail as part of de Blasio’s “Sanctuary City” reforms — and no longer turn over many criminals who have detainer requests.
Hizzoner’s stance has led defense lawyers to ask judges to sentence their clients to just under a year in jail, so that they’ll remain in city custody rather than go into the state prison system....
Well, at least these illegals will be taken off the streets and locked up in jail for now, but Trump should send the National Guard into sanctuary cities to force compliance with federal law, tbqh.