{"id":17403,"date":"2018-07-25T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17403"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:12:46","slug":"judge-serves-up-open-border-activism-in-ruling-to-free-illegal-alien-deliveryman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/07\/25\/judge-serves-up-open-border-activism-in-ruling-to-free-illegal-alien-deliveryman\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Serves Up Open Border Activism in Ruling to Free Illegal Alien Deliveryman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, Pablo Villavicencio Calderon is an illegal alien who ignored a final deportation order. And he has been working as a pizza deliveryman without a valid driver\u2019s license or identification. But those facts did not matter to U.S. District Court Judge Paul Crotty when he ruled<\/a> Tuesday that being a good guy was enough cause to excuse the Ecuadoran native from imminent deportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough he stayed in the United States unlawfully and is currently subject to a final order of removal, he has otherwise been a model citizen,\u201d wrote Crotty. An ironic choice of words considering Crotty had expressed concern that – if deported – Villavicencio application to become<\/em> a U.S. citizen would not be completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the harm to the country and to immigration policy by allowing him to finish the process?\u201d he asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Cordaro.<\/p>\n

The highly-publicized case was triggered by Villavicencio\u2019s June detention<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he failed to provide proper identification while delivering pizza at an Army base in Brooklyn, New York and a subsequent background check showed a final deportation order from 2010.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the sympathetic image of the habitual lawbreaker perpetuated by open border activists and the media had an impact as Crotty\u2019s disdain for immigration enforcement authorities was clearly on display.<\/p>\n

Judge Crotty suggested that Villavicencio failed to comply with the deportation order due to poor legal representation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he\u2019s just encountering good counsel for the first time \u2026 What is the danger to the community for a man who has committed no crimes?\u201d Crotty reportedly<\/a> asked during case arguments.<\/p>\n

Besides, Crotty seemed to assert, the government was wrong for enforcing U.S. immigration law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe powerful are doing what they want and the poor are suffering what they must \u2026 Why do you want to enforce this order? It makes no difference in terms of the larger issues facing the country,\u201d Crotty preached to Cordaro.<\/p>\n

Crotty showed his anti-enforcement stripes when he issued a 25-page preliminary injunction<\/a>\u00a0on June 27 that prevented Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Director Scott Lloyd from putting in place a policy that required he personally approve the release of any illegal immigrant children from Health and Human Services custody.<\/p>\n

He called Lloyd actions as an \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d assertion of power which was \u201cat the zenith of impermissible agency actions.\u201d