How far will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul go to keep immigrant criminals in this country?
So far she’ll even pardon a man convicted of an aggravated felony, if that’s what it takes to prevent the US Supreme Court from setting a restrictionist precedent.
Keisy Guerrero Mariano is a Dominican who spent two years in prison for committing a violent crime — second-degree assault.
Guerrero Mariano, known as “G.M.” in court documents, is exactly the sort of lawbreaker Americans overwhelmingly want to see deported.
But not Hochul; she granted him clemency on Aug. 28.
His case stood out from those of the other five people she pardoned that day.
The others were non-violent offenders who’d committed their crimes decades ago — two in the 1980s, two in the ’90s, and just one as recently as 2007.
G.M. was convicted in 2015.
Yet the governor decided he merited special leniency, for political reasons.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested G.M. in 2020, intending to deport him based on his criminal record.
ICE had to let him go in 2022, however, because of a nationwide injunction related to COVID that required the agency to review custody of individuals with certain medical conditions.
While ICE had him, though, G.M.’s lawyers challenged the agency’s right to hold him for a prolonged time without a bond hearing.
That’s what Hochul’s pardon is really about.
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department planned to make the Dominican’s appeals a test case before the Supreme Court — one likely to establish that G.M. and others like him are not entitled to a bond hearing.
Bond hearings are an easily exploited weakness in America’s immigration security: They protract the legal process of deporting lawbreakers, while also giving them an opportunity to get out of detention temporarily — and then permanently, by failing to show up when they’re due for their next hearing. --->READ MORE HERE
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New York’s Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul intervened in a U.S. Supreme Court case by giving an official pardon to a migrant who was convicted of a felony to try and prevent the Trump administration from deporting him.
The U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear the case of Dominican Republic national Keisy Guerrero Mariano, who was at the center of an argument on bond rights for noncitizens detained for lengthy periods.
Mariano was convicted of second-degree assault in 2015 and actually served time for the crime. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) later arrested him in 2020 and marked him for deportation for being a migrant with a dangerous assault conviction on his record, which is a violation of immigration rules. But by 2024, the Second Circuit Court ruled that prolonged detention can allow a migrant to claim a constitutional right to a bond hearing.
The Trump administration had appealed the Second Circuit’s ruling allowing Mariano to seek bond and further insisted that noncitizens, even those with green cards, do not have a legal right to a bond hearing for a prolonged detention if they have committed crimes that are grounds for mandatory deportation, Fox News reported.
Apparently fearing that Mariano would lose his case and then be deported, New York’s left-wing governor jumped into action to protect the dangerous migrant convict from being deported.
Hochul issued Mariano a full state pardon for his criminal record, thereby quashing the Supreme Court case against him and protecting him from deportation. --->READ MORE HERE
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