Look at the Scam That’s Enabling and Protecting Unlawful Residents of Our Country
August 15, 2019
Lew J. Olowski
Under federal law, noncitizen criminals convicted of aggravated felonies are deported from the United States. Republicans and Democrats should both agree with this commonsense rule of immigration law. But some judges, politicians, and prosecutors are undermining it. They would rather criminal convicts stay in your neighborhood than return to their countries of origin.
Judges serve convicted criminals by changing their criminal records to help them avoid deportation. For example, in Matter of Thomas and Thompson, a noncitizen committed domestic violence battery and was sentenced to 12 months confinement, the minimum sentence required for a violent crime to qualify as an “aggravated felony†causing deportation under federal law. So, when the federal government began deportation proceedings, the noncitizen asked a judge to reduce his criminal sentence on paper even though the sentence had already been served.
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