{"id":7910,"date":"2014-10-30T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:39:09","slug":"new-york-city-council-chooses-criminals-over-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/10\/30\/new-york-city-council-chooses-criminals-over-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Council Chooses Criminals over Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
The New York City Council voted last week to impede federal enforcement of immigration law at the expense of public safety by helping criminal aliens in city jails hide from federal officials. Introduction 486<\/a> and Introduction 487, which were rushed through Council last week, prohibit officers in the New York City Police Department and the New York Department of Corrections from complying with detainer requests from federal immigration officials in all but very limited circumstances.<\/p>\n A detainer request asks local law enforcement agencies to hold on to a criminal alien for up to 48 hours so that a federal official may obtain custody of the criminal alien for the purpose of removal from the United States. In almost all cases, the legislation requires federal immigration officials to present a judicial warrant before a New York City law enforcement officer can comply. The problem with that requirement, however, is that removal from the country is a civil proceeding. Judicial warrants generally are unavailable to federal immigration officials unless they also file criminal charges against an alien. As even illegal alien advocates admit, the requirement of a judicial warrant will \u201cin practice . . . end all deportation holds.\u201d<\/p>\n