[CONSERVATIVETRIBUNE] Two high-profile illegal imOh, come now! If they're "famous" then the law doesn't apply to them does it?
Ravidath Ragbir and Jean Montrevil, both prominent figures within the pro-illegal immigration group New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, were detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after years of being allowed to stay in the country at the discretion of federal officials ‐ in spite of the fact that both had been convicted of serious crimes.
I mean, where would we be if the laws were applied the same way to everybody?
According to the New York Daily News, Ragbir was detained by ICE on Jan. 11 and informed that that his reprieve from deportation would not be extended further.
Ragbir, executive director of New Sanctuary, was checking in at the ICE office in New York City when he was detained. While Ragbir had immigrated to the United States legally back in 1991 from Trinidad and Tobago, he was convicted of wire fraud in 2000, according to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
Ragbir received a deportation order in 2006, but in 2011 ICE officials in New York City gave him a reprieve of deportation. That reprieve was extended last April, but ICE officials informed Ragbir that reprieve would not be extended further. A judge will now decide his fate.
One week later, Haitian national Jean Montrevil ‐ a co-founder of New Sanctuary ‐ was deported after being taken into custody in early January. Montrevil, who had entered the United States in 1986, had served time on a drug possession charge and was in the process of appealing a deportation order.
According to The Intercept, Montrevil’s lawyer said his client "believed that he had reached an understanding with ICE officials."
The general consensus among members of the activist community was that these arrests were targeted acts.
"It seems really clear to us that this is an escalation of retaliation, not just against individual rights leaders, but against the right of the movement to exist," Mary Small, policy director for immigrant rights activist group Detention Watch Network, told The New York Times.
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While it was perhaps a sign that ICE feels emboldened to go after activists as well as everyday illegal im
