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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 727793" data-attributes="member: 12952">Here&#039;s another fine example of our federal government not doing their job;<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI" target="_blank">Illegal&nbsp; immigrant&#039;s 145G &#039;deport gift&#039;</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By REUVEN BLAU
An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting&nbsp; gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after a&nbsp; federal judge ruled his civil rights had been violated when he was held&nbsp; too long on Rikers Island. 
&nbsp; Federal rules allow local law&nbsp; enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for 48 hours after&nbsp; their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs&nbsp; Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal&nbsp; facilities. 
&nbsp; Former Brooklyn resident Cecil Harvey, 55 -- backed&nbsp; by an immigration-rights advocacy group -- argued that his rights were&nbsp; violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before&nbsp; being transferred to ICE. 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Harvey was shipped to his native Barbados in October 2007; the city&nbsp; settled his civil suit late last year. 
&nbsp; The landmark settlement&nbsp; has prompted the Correction Department to dump scores of illegal&nbsp; immigrants on the streets, since federal officials often fail to pick&nbsp; them up within the required two-day window. 

&quot;We just release them now,&quot; one high-ranking jail supervisor said. &quot;It&#039;s&nbsp; ICE&#039;s problem to go find these guys.&quot; Read more: <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI#ixzz0nSbbAfI8" target="_blank">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI#ixzz0nSbbAf</a>

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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 727793, member: 12952"] Here's another fine example of our federal government not doing their job; [B][URL="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI"]Illegal immigrant's 145G 'deport gift'[/URL][/B] By REUVEN BLAU [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after a federal judge ruled his civil rights had been violated when he was held too long on Rikers Island. Federal rules allow local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for 48 hours after their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal facilities. Former Brooklyn resident Cecil Harvey, 55 -- backed by an immigration-rights advocacy group -- argued that his rights were violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before being transferred to ICE. Harvey was shipped to his native Barbados in October 2007; the city settled his civil suit late last year. The landmark settlement has prompted the Correction Department to dump scores of illegal immigrants on the streets, since federal officials often fail to pick them up within the required two-day window. "We just release them now," one high-ranking jail supervisor said. "It's ICE's problem to go find these guys." [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] Read more: [URL="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI#ixzz0nSbbAfI8"]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/alien_WU7CcuvTMg4n2yBzWqSPMI#ixzz0nSbbAf[/URL] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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