Posted on 11/14/2014 6:48:51 AM PST by GIdget2004
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for a wave of bail hearings for immigrants across Arizona.
Hundreds of immigrants who have been denied bail under a strict Arizona law will now have the opportunity to be released.
The high court on Thursday kept intact a lower-court ruling that struck down the law passed in 2006 amid a series of immigration crackdowns in Arizona over the past decade.
The law denied bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies that include shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder.
As a result, immigrants spend months in jail and often simply plead guilty and get turned over to federal immigration authorities for deportation.
An 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law last month, ruling that it violates due-process rights by imposing punishment before trial. The panel also said the law was a “scattershot attempt” at confronting people who flee from authorities and that there was no evidence the law dealt with a particularly critical problem.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Bill Montgomery defended the law before the courts. Montgomery’s office estimates that hundreds of immigrants in metro Phoenix are now eligible for release under the decision, and prosecutors believe the action could overwhelm the court system and lead to defendants skipping bail and endangering the community.
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Illegal aliens? Bail? Can you say ‘flight risk’?
I got the first comment in. Please “like” it so it will remain at the top.
The WaPo used the word “immigrant” seven times in the title, caption and text before mentioning that the article refers to “immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies that include shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder.”
As usual, your pro-illegal “immigrant” bias could not be more clear. And why not? The WaPo is a willing member of American Pravda (ABCNNBCBSNYTLATWP).
Hey WaPo “reporters,” how about digging into the connection between Obama’s invitation to the children of Central America to stroll into America and be distributed across the nation, and the outbreak of Enterovirus D-68, which has killed over ten American children, and paralyzed more with polio-like symptoms? There were only 20 cases in the past 30 years, then there are a thousand cases in a few months after Obama’s open-border invasion invitation. Guess what? EV-D-68 in endemic in Central America!
But you don’t have “reporters” at your branch of American Pravda. You just have stooges and hacks, like in the old Soviet Pravda.
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What bondsman in his right mind would go the bail?
Yes, but it’s free and I think it’s worth it. The WP is one of the few lib MSM outlets that permits a free-wheeling comment discussion. By liking conservative comments, you keep them at the top and they are seen by thousands of libs and “moderates.” I probably click “like” 100X for every comment I actually post. Unless you get in a very early comment, they won’t get to the top. This time, I lucked out and had the first comment.
Under zero's watch "deportation" = release. A bail release would keep the charges active when they rabbit.
Liked.
For someone who just snuck across the border, no one. For an illegal who's been here for years and has American-born children in the local public school, many probably would.
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