Posted on 05/10/2010 11:16:04 AM PDT by beericus
An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after city lawyers decided his civil rights had been violated when he was held too long on Rikers Island.
Federal rules allow local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for 48 hours after their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal facilities.
Former Brooklyn resident Cecil Harvey, 55 — backed by an immigration-rights advocacy group — argued that his rights were violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before being transferred to ICE.
The $145,000 was awarded to compensate the victim for lost revenues in illegal drug sales.
Is this option available for Americans? I would stay a month in Rikers for $145k.
This should come out of Bloomberg’s personal checkbook,not the taxpayers. Ridiculous.
me too, its a better deal then the upcoming unsustainable pension problem .
I wonder what he was jailed for? I guess crime does pay.
ROFL!!
No, you are a citizen. You get to pay for the illegal compensatin program.
First of all, how does a pro-criminal group get to even demand a trial for an illegal alien!?
Another day and the world is still upside down and inside out....sigh.
Let me guess. The delay in transferring him was because of the Feds trying to find a way to grant him amnesty.
"Harvey was shipped to his native Barbados in October 2007; the city settled his civil suit late last year."
Areest him when he comes back to collect.
Feel the pain New Yorkers! Feel the pain!
He should have no rights - he is here illegally and should not be able to claim citizen rights!
This is BS
Is this option available for Americans? I would stay a month in Rikers for $145k.
I wouldn’t. And it ain’t because I don’t need the money. I would be wrong the wrong complexion for correction...
Sign me up.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is the party at fault. If a person is in the criminal system and has possible immigration issues they notify ICE. ICE has 48 hours (not counting weekends or holidays) to take custody of the person. The problem is that if a person has completed their time and the criminal court says they are free to go, they are supposed to then be released into the custody of ICE. Sounds like the NY criminal system didn’t just want to release this person out in the public but ICE wouldn’t come get him even a month later. Blame the feds not the state.
Preposterous.
Look for every illegal to try the same.
Give it to him in cash in a bag and shove him back over the border...
backed by an immigration-rights advocacy group
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