Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 11, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 11, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Panel: Releasing Illegal Aliens Because of Virus Fears Hurts Society
Releasing immigration detainees from custody based on unsupported suspicion that they might be exposed to the CCP virus while incarcerated unnecessarily exposes Americans to great risk, a panel discussion by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) heard.
There are reportedly almost 40,000 individuals in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, and activists want them released, ostensibly to reduce their exposure to the contagion. In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have been releasing ICE detainees on the theory that they are safer outside detention centers from the CCP virus, often called novel coronavirus.
On April 12, U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ordered five ICE detainees with underlying health conditions released from New Jersey jails. Citing virus concerns, on March 29, District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles ordered the government to “make continuous efforts” to release children in immigration detention centers.
Last week, federal Judge William G. Young ordered Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, a Republican, to release eight immigration detainees at a jail after two staffers there tested positive for the virus. The judge had previously ordered three other detainees released after a nurse at the facility tested positive.
Another seven detainees there were voluntarily released by ICE, which has a contract with Hodgson and other sheriffs in the state to hold arrested detainees at county jails. The former detainees were ordered to self-quarantine and are under house arrest, local media report.
CCP VIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE
“Ironically, of my 850 detainees/inmates, we have had no COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, and this judge is releasing these detainees under a ‘humanitarian’ claim,” Hodgson said.
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“I can think of nothing more inhumane than letting dangerous people wander around our neighborhoods, based on a claim that maybe, just maybe, they could contract COVID-19 in the detention center.”
The lawsuit filed against Hodgson called his county’s jails a “tinderbox,” a word U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres used in a court order March 26, The Epoch Times previously reported.
Torres released from detention 10 immigration detainees in New Jersey with underlying health conditions thought to put them at great risk if they contracted the virus. The suit was brought by a left-wing group called Brooklyn Defender Services.
In her order, Torres referenced a CNN report from March 20 that warned of a “tinderbox scenario” as the virus spreads to immigration detention centers, and the resulting “imminent risk to the health and safety of immigrant detainees” and the public.
The online panel discussion came April 13 after protesters in Arizona called for detainees to be freed.
“Detainees deserve to be housed in safe, healthy facilities,” said Andrew Arthur, a CIS resident fellow in law and policy and former immigration judge at a detention facility.
“But policymakers must compare their situation in the facility to their safety outside of the facility, and the availability of treatment inside to that outside of the facility. And who should be making these decisions? What if a single judge says to empty the jails and detention centers completely? Judges should not be controlling policy in this manner.”
“Policymakers must also remember that detention often serves public safety, because most of the aliens taken into detention are convicted criminals,” said Dan Cadman, a CIS fellow and retired official with ICE and its predecessor agency.
“Once released, most of these individuals will re-offend.”
The irony is that, given the high hygienic standards in ICE detention facilities, detainees are safer from the virus on the inside than on the outside, he said.
“If they do contract the virus, they are going to tax the local system in ways that they don’t if they’re kept in detention. And while that may not seem like a lot, let me put it in a really harsh context here. Doctors throughout the country have said that they are so stressed in their systems that they may have to make hard choices about who to let live and who to let die.”
If a physician is confronted with having to choose between a young released detainee and your elderly relative, “how are you as a citizen going to feel to think that someone who was ordered released by a federal judge someplace gets preferential treatment over your elderly parent or grandparent?”
The all-Democratic Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate members, the sheriff said, sent a letter saying county jails were unhygienic and lacked basic items such as soap, as part of a campaign to free illegal aliens from detention.
These politicians “have chosen to use this pandemic, sadly, as a foundation to continue launching this progressive agenda to release ICE detainees, and to not hold people accountable, i.e., the people who chose to violate our immigration laws, and instead put the onus on law-abiding citizens.”
“These members of Congress ought to be ashamed of themselves. I responded and told them so,” Hodgson said.
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Releasing immigration detainees from custody based on unsupported suspicion that they might be exposed to the CCP virus while incarcerated unnecessarily exposes Americans to great risk, a panel discussion by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) heard.
There are reportedly almost 40,000 individuals in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, and activists want them released, ostensibly to reduce their exposure to the contagion. In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have been releasing ICE detainees on the theory that they are safer outside detention centers from the CCP virus, often called novel coronavirus.
On April 12, U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo ordered five ICE detainees with underlying health conditions released from New Jersey jails. Citing virus concerns, on March 29, District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles ordered the government to “make continuous efforts” to release children in immigration detention centers.
Last week, federal Judge William G. Young ordered Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, a Republican, to release eight immigration detainees at a jail after two staffers there tested positive for the virus. The judge had previously ordered three other detainees released after a nurse at the facility tested positive.
Another seven detainees there were voluntarily released by ICE, which has a contract with Hodgson and other sheriffs in the state to hold arrested detainees at county jails. The former detainees were ordered to self-quarantine and are under house arrest, local media report.
CCP VIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE
“Ironically, of my 850 detainees/inmates, we have had no COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, and this judge is releasing these detainees under a ‘humanitarian’ claim,” Hodgson said.
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“I can think of nothing more inhumane than letting dangerous people wander around our neighborhoods, based on a claim that maybe, just maybe, they could contract COVID-19 in the detention center.”
The lawsuit filed against Hodgson called his county’s jails a “tinderbox,” a word U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres used in a court order March 26, The Epoch Times previously reported.
Torres released from detention 10 immigration detainees in New Jersey with underlying health conditions thought to put them at great risk if they contracted the virus. The suit was brought by a left-wing group called Brooklyn Defender Services.
In her order, Torres referenced a CNN report from March 20 that warned of a “tinderbox scenario” as the virus spreads to immigration detention centers, and the resulting “imminent risk to the health and safety of immigrant detainees” and the public.
The online panel discussion came April 13 after protesters in Arizona called for detainees to be freed.
“Detainees deserve to be housed in safe, healthy facilities,” said Andrew Arthur, a CIS resident fellow in law and policy and former immigration judge at a detention facility.
“But policymakers must compare their situation in the facility to their safety outside of the facility, and the availability of treatment inside to that outside of the facility. And who should be making these decisions? What if a single judge says to empty the jails and detention centers completely? Judges should not be controlling policy in this manner.”
“Policymakers must also remember that detention often serves public safety, because most of the aliens taken into detention are convicted criminals,” said Dan Cadman, a CIS fellow and retired official with ICE and its predecessor agency.
“Once released, most of these individuals will re-offend.”
The irony is that, given the high hygienic standards in ICE detention facilities, detainees are safer from the virus on the inside than on the outside, he said.
“If they do contract the virus, they are going to tax the local system in ways that they don’t if they’re kept in detention. And while that may not seem like a lot, let me put it in a really harsh context here. Doctors throughout the country have said that they are so stressed in their systems that they may have to make hard choices about who to let live and who to let die.”
If a physician is confronted with having to choose between a young released detainee and your elderly relative, “how are you as a citizen going to feel to think that someone who was ordered released by a federal judge someplace gets preferential treatment over your elderly parent or grandparent?”
The all-Democratic Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate members, the sheriff said, sent a letter saying county jails were unhygienic and lacked basic items such as soap, as part of a campaign to free illegal aliens from detention.
These politicians “have chosen to use this pandemic, sadly, as a foundation to continue launching this progressive agenda to release ICE detainees, and to not hold people accountable, i.e., the people who chose to violate our immigration laws, and instead put the onus on law-abiding citizens.”
“These members of Congress ought to be ashamed of themselves. I responded and told them so,” Hodgson said.
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Top sheriff: Illegal immigrants released over
COVID-19 will disappear
by Paul Bedard
One of
the nation’s most influential sheriffs on illegal immigration warned Monday
that immigrants freed by judges concerned about the coronavirus spreading in
jails will disappear after the crisis is over.
“The question many people ask
is, ‘Are they going to turn themselves in after the COVID-19 incident is
over?'” said Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff
Thomas Hodgson.
“And the answer is, no, of
course not,” he said.
A local judge has ordered
Hodgson to release dozens of illegal immigrant inmates he had been holding for
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He told a Center for Immigration Studies Zoom panel
that most were awaiting deportation.
He said the judge ordered
illegal immigrants released because “perhaps” they could catch the virus in
jail, even though there are no cases of it in his jail.
“Ironically, of my 850
detainees/inmates, we have had no COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, and
this judge is releasing these detainees under a 'humanitarian' claim. I can
think of nothing more inhumane than letting dangerous people wander around our
neighborhoods, based on a claim that maybe, just maybe, they could contract
COVID-19 in the detention center,” he said.
Hodgson, who has played a key role in organizing sheriffs on immigration
policy, added that the judge has put no constraints on those released, such as
to wear a tracking bracelet. And, he said, most have criminal histories.
Democrats have been pushing
for the release of prisoners, including illegal immigrants, out of fear they
could get the virus.
But opponents argue that those
released could get it just as easy on the outside, and they are also prone to
committing further crime.
A former immigration judge,
Andrew Arthur, argued that it is safer for all inmates to stay in jails.
He noted that ICE provides
healthcare to illegal immigrants held in jail, and they can keep people
separated in jail.
Obama: DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus Crisis
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Former President Barack Obama says the time is now, during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, to provide amnesty to about 3.5 million illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
While about ten million Americans have filed for unemployment in just three weeks, Obama took to Twitter to call for an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
“Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Obama said. “They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every way but on paper.”
Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic. They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every way but on paper. washingtonpost.com/immigration/dr…
Center for Immigration Studies Research Director Steven Camarotta has noted that DACA illegal aliens make up about 0.2 percent of the nation’s nearly 15 million healthcare workers. In New York, where a staggering number of DACA illegal aliens reside, they still only account for about 0.2 percent of the state’s healthcare workers, according to Camarotta.
Obama’s lobbying for a DACA amnesty in the middle of the coronavirus crisis comes as House Democrats — including Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — have sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding DACA illegal aliens have their work authorizations extended.
“Support of DACA recipients during the current pandemic is particularly critical as over 200,000 DACA recipients are in occupations and industry groups that render them ‘essential critical infrastructure workers,’ according to DHS guidance,” the House Democrats wrote in their letter.
A DACA amnesty would put more citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal welfare, as Breitbart News reported, while American taxpayers would be left potentially with a $26 billion bill.
Additionally, about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to give amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not also include provisions to halve legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits about 1.2 million legal immigrants a year at the expense of America’s working and middle class — would give amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
At the southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to trigger a border surge that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring through the border. Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the program have been kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or gang members.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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