Federal Court Immigration Decisions Breeding More Arizona Enforcement Laws

Hans von Spakovsky / January 04, 2011

If you want prime examples of what is wrong with our federal courts and our immigration policies, two recent cases show how much harm liberal activists who masquerade as “impartial” judges can do—and how illegal immigrants not only game our enforcement system but actually make money off of it.

The first case involves an illegal immigrant, Cecil Harvey, who was deported back to Barbados in 2007, although that did not stop him from filing a lawsuit courtesy of the Cardozo School of Law. Harvey has just been paid $145,000 by the state of New York for supposed violations of his “civil rights” after a ruling by a federal judge against New York. The state’s violation? They held Harvey at Rikers Island for 35 days under an immigration detainer warrant before he was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (more…)