A lack of cooperation with ICE to deport an illegal immigrant resulted in a family tragedy

Why would the New York City Department of Correction refuse to honor a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer for an illegal Mexican national facing murder and arson charges in Queens?The same perverted sense of “equity” that drove the Biden administration to open the border to millions of illegal migrants.On April 9, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Roman Amatitla would be charged with arson and eight counts of second-degree murder for allegedly setting a fire that killed four in a Flushing apartment building, including a 3-year-old girl.Katz called it as “an act of mass murder,” and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subsequently revealed Amatitla had entered the US illegally “at an unknown date and unknown time.”Despite the heinous nature of the crime, the threat posed to the community and Amatitla’s unlawful status, NYDOC still vowed not to cooperate with ICE’s efforts to keep him off the streets.Amatitla is being held without bail while he awaits trial.But paperwork released by DHS shows the NYDOC refusing to provide status updates to ICE if he is ever released.And this hostility to the nation’s immigration laws will only get worse if, as expected, Albany passes an even more aggressive sanctuary bill that makes it illegal for local authorities to cooperate with ICE in many circumstances.All of which should come as no surprise to those who delved into the Biden administration’s justifications for its feckless immigration policies — which continue to be tacitly embraced by the former president’s fellow Democrats.In September 2021, Biden’s impeached DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, imposed strict restrictions on ICE’s ability to arrest and deport criminal aliens, premised on his “prosecutorial discretion” authority.Those restrictions required officers to consider irrelevant “mitigating” factors — including any “mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct” — before ...