Public officers blasting ICE brokers for going after legal unlawful immigrants are getting a harsh message from the feds: you’re backing the flawed horse.
Wilson Martell-LeBron was detained by ICE brokers late final month exterior the Boston Municipal Court docket Central Edward W. Brooke Courthouse — following the beginning of his trial for allegedly making a false assertion on an RMV software and possession of a solid RMV doc.
The feds declare that he’s an undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, who’s allegedly named Juan Carlos Baez. They arrested him mid-trial and introduced him to a detention facility in Plymouth, regardless of the Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden and Choose Mark Summerville’s said makes an attempt to have him returned to court docket.
Summerville dismissed the fees in opposition to Martell-LeBron “as a consequence of egregious and intentional prosecutorial misconduct.” He additionally discovered the arresting ICE agent in contempt of court docket.
“The decide within the case referred the matter to our court docket to think about whether or not or not we shall be bringing forth any legal costs,” stated Hayden. “That’s into account. That’s beneath evaluate.”
What’s not beneath evaluate? The truth that hampering an immigration officer’s efforts to implement immigration legal guidelines is a felony.
U.S. Legal professional Leah Foley didn’t maintain again her ire. “The truth that you disfavor ICE officers doing their jobs isn’t a foundation for legal costs. In reality, there isn’t any authorized foundation for such costs,” Foley wrote to Hayden.
She added it’s “a felony offense to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or intervene with an immigration officer’s efforts to duly execute the immigration legal guidelines of the US.”
Foley added that taking motion in opposition to an immigration officer is in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the US Structure.
Stopping an ICE agent from doing his or her job isn’t resistance — it’s unlawful.
Democratic leaders have made a meal of depicting ICE brokers, and the enforcement of U.S. immigration legal guidelines, as darkish forces undermining democracy. That’s removed from the reality, and the case of Martell-LeBron exemplifies what’s flawed with that considering.
Boston’s high ICE official Patricia Hyde stated that unlawful immigrant Martell-Lebron had already served 11 years in jail for heroin and cocaine dealing earlier than different drug costs have been tossed within the Annie Dookhan lab scandal — and he altered his fingerprints to dodge identification.
That is who Hayden and Summerville are going to bat for? It is a one who shouldn’t must “dwell in worry” of an ICE agent’s knock? Hayden stated ICE’s escalating actions “jeopardize public security.”
Drug sellers jeopardize public security. So do individuals who maintain legal unlawful immigrants from being deported.
It’s the responsibility of public leaders and regulation enforcement officers to uphold the regulation — even legal guidelines they don’t like. We’ve seen the fallout of insurance policies that flip a blind eye to unlawful immigration and the legal behaviors of sure unlawful immigrants.
Equating authorized immigrants with those that got here right here illegally to do hurt is a misdirection, and a harmful one.
Honor the legal guidelines of the US, and let ICE do its work.
