New York City prosecutors from all five boroughs have given "preferential treatment" to noncitizens who commit crimes, all to help them avoid deportation, according to a report from the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee.The committee, chaired by Rep.Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said nonpublic documents obtained through its oversight work revealed new details about the extent to which the city's district attorney's offices sought to limit the immigration consequences of criminal prosecutions.Some of the report's most serious allegations came against Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.
The report claims she "trains prosecutors in her office to conceal certain facts" from defendants' conviction records and pursue charges that would not trigger deportation.Internal materials from the Bronx DA's office explicitly instruct prosecutors to leave references to firearms out of conviction records to maintain "immigration-conscious plea bargaining," according to the report.Bronx County District Attorney Darcel Clark attends the 54th Annual Bronx Ball at Bally's Golf Links at Ferry Point on May 16, 2026 in Bronx, New York.(Joy Malone/Getty Images)SOROS-BACKED DA ACCUSED OF GOING EASY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GETS SQUEEZED BY HOUSE GOPIn cases of domestic violence or crimes against children — offenses that are often deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act — Bronx prosecutors were told to leave out defendants' relationships with their alleged victims and pursue charges that did not specify the ages of child victims.Clark, who has been the Bronx DA since 2016, was also accused of encouraging prosecutors to charge foreign nationals with "nonexistent, legally impossible" crimes to skirt deportation.The report's authors offered the example of Clark's staff getting someone to plead guilty to "attempted reckless assault," a crime they described as legally impossible because someone cannot intend to act recklessly.
A plea to such a crime, they said, could allow a noncitizen defe...