Venezuelan migrant whod rather go to Rikers than face ICE likely wont stay out of feds hands for long

Joke’s on him?A Venezuelan migrant who made the unusual move of voluntarily asking for bail to avoid being arrested by ICE could be locked up on Rikers Island for weeks or longer — regardless of if he posts the $100.Nolveiro Vera Ordonez, 30, likely will end up in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody no matter the outcome of his petty theft case in Manhattan court.A judge’s quick decision to hold Ordonez on a federal criminal warrant will ensure he’ll be rounded up by ICE once his state case wraps up, confirmed Al Baker, spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, on Thursday.One immigration lawyer who spoke to The Post laughed at Ordonez’s brazen attempt to wait out ICE in jail, while noting Rikers is probably not the best place to cool his heels.“I’ll give them points for thinking out of the box,” quipped attorney Edward Cuccia, though he added, “As an immigration strategy, it’s maybe not the best.”Ordonez’s pathway to the questionable legal gambit began Monday, when he was allegedly spotted cutting a lock and stealing a bicycle in Harlem, court papers show.An NYPD cop arrested Ordonez, leading to his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment Wednesday on charges of petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal mischief.The problem for the Venezuelan migrant is that he faced a criminal arrest warrant from a Texas federal court for allegedly illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in 2022, records show.A cadre of ICE agents were ready to nab Ordonez after the arraignment, so his lawyer, Elizabeth Fischer of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, made an unusual request: set his bail at $100, even though the offenses are usually bail-ineligible.Fischer cited an obscure New York law in which defendants can request bail at any time.Judge Rachel Pauley, noting the request was “highly unusual,” agreed to the set the bail — and effectively blocked the federal arrest.But Pauley also remanded Ordonez...