From WNYC:

Judge Orders the Release of Immigration Activist Ravi Ragbir Jan 29, 2018 · by The Associated Press and Beth Fertig A federal judge in New York City has ordered the immediate release of a prominent immigration activist, saying his detention was “unnecessarily cruel.” Applause broke out in a packed Manhattan courtroom Monday after Judge Katherine Forrest announced that Ravi Ragbir must be released. Ragbir, a Trinidadian citizen, was once a legal permanent resident of the United States, but lost his status after serving time for a wire fraud conviction incurred 18 years ago. Since 2006, he has been fighting a deportation order, and was detained on January 11 during a regular check-in with ICE. … Judge Forrest read aloud a written ruling saying that Ragbir and those like him across the country ought to have “the freedom to say goodbye” when they are not a threat to flee or a danger to the community.

She also compared his treatment to that of “regimes we revile as unjust, regimes where those who have long lived in a country may be taken without notice from streets, home, and work. And sent away. “We are not that country; and woe be the day that we become that country under a fiction that laws allow it.”

The government is expected to appeal the decision. It sought to stay Judge Forrest’s order that Ragbir be released immediately from detention upstate, but she declined to do so and said he must be released. …

More immediately, Gottlieb will be the guest of New York Congresswoman Nydia Velásquez at President Trump’s State of the Union Speech on Tuesday. Velásquez said Ravi will now join them on the trip to D.C.

Hasn’t this embezzler had “the freedom to say goodbye” in the 12 years he’s been dodging deportation?I think the judge lady is saying that America shouldn’t have rule of law when her kind of people, such as swindler/activist Ravi, might be inconvenienced under those laws.The Democrats really want to rub America’s noses in the caliber of the foreign grifters they care more about than they care about you.

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