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railsonrails t1_j8wnbd4 wrote

Reply to comment by ZA44 in '#teamsendthemback': Private emails reveal cozy relationship, cooperation between NYC correction officers and ICE by mowotlarx

See, I’m with you for violent crime, but it’s not just violent crime that sends you down the NYPD to DOC to ICE deportation pipeline.

See for instance the case of Castillo Maradiaga, a DACA recipient who got arrested for jaywalking in the Bronx and then sent over to ICE.

sad as it is, criminal statutes are enforced unevenly (if you’re gonna start ticketing people for jaywalking in New York without racial prejudice…that’s about 8 million people who’re jail-bound)

Not unopposed to violent felons being deported, but I’ll bring up the Exonerated Five as an example of people being wrongly convicted for violent felonies. Sadly that wasn’t a one-off and the trend continues even today — and I don’t think anyone should be denied a future in the US because an overeager DA was wanting to increase their conviction rate.

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IKNWMORE t1_j91gjla wrote

I doubt he was sent to jail for just Jaywalking. There is more to the story the article isn’t saying. Also in the article it self it states that he was sent to ICE on error.

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