ICE sues New York for illegal immigrants

On February 3, the federal prosecutor’s office asked the court to force the city to provide information about two illegal immigrant criminals. Previously, these men were arrested but released despite an ICE order to detain them. This publication writes New York Post.

A statement from the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn said the Bill de Blasio administration ignored subpoenas from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They asked for information about a 21-year-old Mexican citizen, Reaz Khan, accused of murder. The requests were sent in accordance with the city of asylum policy - and the prosecutor's office is demanding that the city comply with these requests.

The feds argue that the Brooklyn federal court has “broad, undoubted authority over the subject of immigration and the status of foreigners,” as well as legal authority to access city records.

Khan, who was charged with sexual assault and murder of Maria Fuentes on January 6 last week, is currently in custody and awaiting trial. But the feds said they still want information “to determine whether Khan can enter, leave, reside or travel through the United States, and determine whether he is to be detained in accordance with immigration law,” the court documents said.

The second person ICE is looking for is 38-year-old Romero Ramirez-Macias, a suspect in drug use. He remains at large.

Khan from Guyana entered the United States in October 2016 on a visitor visa, but returned home after the March 2017 deadline. He was arrested on November 27 last year for allegedly assaulting his father. On the same day, ICE filed a request to detain Khan for up to 48 hours, during which time the feds planned to pick him up for deportation. But the government said that instead Khan was released without bail and without notice to the federal agency.

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Similarly, Ramirez Macias was initially arrested in 2011 and sentenced to imprisonment in Texas the following year for importing methamphetamine into the United States. In 2015, he was released from the isolation ward and deported back to Mexico, but returned to the United States and was arrested again in New York last October for drug possession.

Three weeks later, the ICE filed an application for detention in the city, but Ramirez-Marcias was also released without bail, according to court documents. Brooklyn's federal judge issued a warrant for his arrest on December 12, and earlier this month, the ICE sent a subpoena to the city asking for information about his whereabouts and his case.

"The filing of the lawsuit on Monday, February 3, is the last battle in the ongoing war between the Big Apple and the White House over immigration policy," the source notes.

ICE chief executive Matthew Albens scolded the city for its policies two weeks ago. The Bill de Blasio administration struck back on February 3. “ICE is clearly trying to use tragic circumstances to intimidate the city of New York and force it to change its laws and policies, but our city is the safest big city in the country thanks to this policy,” said Julia Arredondo, deputy spokeswoman for de Blasio. (Julia Arredondo).

“Reaz Khan has been arrested and is behind bars awaiting trial, and if convicted, the city will cooperate with federal officials in accordance with local law,” Arredondo added.