War on Women: Philadelphia Mayor's Executive Order protects Illegal Immigrant accused of Rape from Deportation

An executive order signed by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will protect a man accused of rape from deportation.

Philadelphia police charged Milton Mateo Garcia, a 28-year-old Honduran citizen, with rape, robbery, aggravated assault, kidnapping and other offenses for repeatedly victimizing a young doctor inside her apartment, police said at a press conference as reported by NBC’s Philadelphia affiliate. Garcia was previously removed in June 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy press secretary Gillian M. Christensen tells National Review Online via email. She says ICE has lodged a detainer against Garcia, aka Milton Garcia-Vazquez, requesting that law enforcement notify ICE before releasing him so that ICE may assume custody.

But if Garcia is acquitted of wrongdoing by the police, he need not worry about potential deportation proceedings. The Philadelphia Police Department will refuse to honor ICE’s detainer at the direction of the mayor. Philly’s executive order No. 1-14, which was signed by Nutter this April, states, “No person in the City who otherwise would be released from custody shall be detained pursuant to an ICE civil immigration detainer request#…#nor shall notice of his or her pending release be provided, unless such person is being released after conviction for a first or second degree felony involving violence and the detainer is supported by judicial warrant.”

Francis Healy, special advisor to the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, says Philadelphia police are a quasi-military organization that will follow the mayor’s executive order whether they like it or not.

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