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Yahoo
15 hours ago
- Yahoo
Accused Venezuelan thief begs NYC judge to lock him up to avoid being nabbed by ICE as it rounded up illegal immigrants making court appearances
An accused Venezuelan bike thief asked a New York City judge to lock him up in Rikers Island to evade arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — whose efforts to detain him were blocked when the desperate plea was stunningly granted by a judge. Nolveiro Vera Ordonez, 30, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges for fourth-degree criminal mischief, petit larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property while five masked ICE agents waited outside the heavily secured courtroom to take him into custody Wednesday afternoon. His lawyer, Elizabeth Fischer of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, said her client was 'voluntarily' requesting to be jailed on $100, on charges that typically do not require bail to be set. The attorney citied an obscure bail law where a defendant can request bail at any time and that if the judge is 'satisfied' that the bail is voluntary, 'the court shall set such bail in such amount.' Judge Rachel Pauley, who noted the request was 'highly unusual,' agreed to set Ordonez's bail at $100 – effectively blocking the federal arrest and prompting ICE agents to scatter out of the courthouse. 'Mr. Rivera Ordonez, at your request … I'm setting bail on what is otherwise a bail-ineligible offense,' she told him. The judge, however, remanded Ordonez on the federal warrant. Just a few blocks away, masked federal agents were seen detaining at least four other illegal immigrants who were summoned for appointments near Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, photos showed. The individuals had apparently reported to the nondescript building for scheduled appearances with Homeland Security's Intensive Supervision Appearance Program when they were arrested. The program targets immigrants at various stages of deportation proceedings and typically requires check-ins every few weeks or months – with several weeks' notice given in advance. One photo captured a distraught woman collapsed on the ground, crying, as the raid unfolded around her. Another photo showed a father kissing his daughter on the forehead as he is hauled away by agents. Additional footage showed a distressed woman looking back at her daughter as she was being placed into a vehicle by agents. The large-scale roundups outside federal courts and offices have become a regular occurrence nationwide as the Trump administration hones in on migrants with final removal orders, sources told The Post. Last week, as many as 10 migrants were detained while leaving the federal immigration courthouse at 26 Federal Plaza. Another 16 immigrants were detained from a nondescript office building in the same area Tuesday afternoon, The City reported. The outlet reported that masked agents placed the handcuffed individuals into SUVS parked in a garage across the street from the federal courthouse approximately 15 minutes past each hour throughout the day. The sweeping arrests come after President Trump instructed ICE agents to wait outside federal immigration courts across the country to handcuff illegal migrants as soon as they receive a deportation order from a judge, sources told The Post. ICE shares an office with the immigration court in downtown New York City, allowing federal agents to make such arrests easily.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Democrats pledge to help people break the law, no matter the cost
Even while the progressive agenda is foundering nationwide, New York City Democrats are holding course, steering their ship of folly directly toward the rocky shoals of incompetence, waste, and municipal misgovernance. The latest exhibit of Progressive absurdity was on display in Manhattan Criminal Court, where Venezuelan illegal alien Nolveiro Vera Ordonez was arraigned on a host of theft-related charges. Under state bail reform laws, of course, Ordonez was slated for immediate release, but knowing that federal ICE agents were waiting to take him into custody, he asked the judge to send him to jail on a small bond. Judge Rachel Pauley agreed, assigned Ordonez $100 bail, and sparing him — so he thought — from the clutches of the federal officers seeking his arrest. Ordonez' plan — cooked up by his city-funded activist defense counsel — was that he could post bail whenever he feels like it and exit Rikers at will. New York's sanctuary city laws would prevent the NYPD from notifying ICE of his release, and he could be free to return to the streets, continue his career of theft and criminal mischief, and decide later on if it suits him to return to court, or not. As it turned out, Ordonez already had a federal criminal warrant, so he's not going anywhere soon. But not for lack of trying! Judge Pauley may not have crossed the line of probity the way Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan did when she escorted an illegal alien out the back door of her courthouse to avoid ICE detention, but the effect is the same. Progressive judges and other elected officials are convinced that laws that target crime or criminals — at least the right kind of criminals — are essentially unjust. It's their job to sort out workarounds to mitigate the 'immigration consequences' of criminality. Wednesday night's Democrat mayoral debate was loaded with these concerns. When asked about how to deal with the scourge of e-bikes speeding, riding on sidewalks, and running lights, state senator Jessica Ramos opened by saying, 'We have to end the criminalization of our delivery workers and bicycle riders . . . that is leaving breadcrumbs for ICE and many of our community members vulnerable.' Former assemblyman Michael Blake said that 'we cannot have an increase in people getting tickets.' Why? Because 'it will absolutely lead to the harassment of more communities of color, and immigrants in particular.' We understand that e-bike food deliverymen are riding dangerously and too fast so they can get bigger tips and fulfill more deliveries per hour. Maybe that's good for them and for their customers who want their to-go orders of noodles piping hot, but it's not clear why the city has to twist itself in knots to facilitate an industry that is basically a luxury. Just because illegal immigrants have found a way to make money by shuttling restaurant food around doesn't mean that we have to protect them from the consequences of their actions, at the expense of public safety. The same dynamic is at work regarding illegal street vendors, who take up sidewalk space in congested thoroughfares to peddle homemade food and tchotchkes. These folks, also often illegal aliens, compete purposefully with brick-and-mortar establishments which collect sales tax, employ workers, and pay to have their garbage hauled instead of pouring their cooking oil down the nearest sewer drain. But to listen to their advocates in city government, street vendors are the backbone of the entire local economy. Bronx councilmember Pierina Sanchez is promoting a bill to expand dramatically the number of vending permits because this is a 'time when immigrants and workers are targeted by executive orders at both the city and federal levels.' We must, says Sanchez, 'make our city safer and more welcoming for immigrant New Yorkers,' by legalizing a profound nuisance that will crowd sidewalks, hurt local businesses, and make streets dirtier. The Progressive vision of New York City assumes that every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints, to quote a legendary poet of the twentieth century. Their perpetual solution to crime is to legalize it, because then the crime rate will drop to zero. But the problems that the crime rate reflects will remain. That's the problem with reality — you can't wish it away. Seth Barron's book 'Weaponized' is forthcoming from Humanix.
