New York prosecutors accused of downgrading illegal immigrant crimes, says Fox Business
Report from House Republicans says Manhattan DA directed to avoid serious charges against illegal immigrants; Presenters criticize and talk about a lack of security.
BY THE X-TRADER NEWS NEWSROOM · REPORTING FROM FOX BUSINESS · 3 MIN
New York prosecutors are under pressure after being asked at a House Judiciary Committee hearing about orders to downgrade charges against illegal immigrants and thereby help them avoid deportation. According to the Fox Business program, the prosecutors' response to the questioning was silence.
The episode comes after House Republicans released a report that, according to the channel, points out that the city's top prosecutors sought to reduce charges against illegal immigrants to preserve New York's "sanctuary city" status. During the hearing, the question about the downgrading of charges involving firearms went unanswered by anyone present.
What the report says
According to what was exposed in the program, District Attorney Melinda Katz reportedly instructed her prosecutors to exercise "extreme caution" when dealing with charges against illegal immigrants. According to the report, the team was advised not to get involved in the labels of serious crime (felony), misdemeanor and other high-level processes.
The material cited also states that the team would have been instructed to follow the so-called conscious immigration penalty negotiation, with offers that do not include the child's age as an element of the crime, in cases of crimes against minors. The presenters called the accusations "mind-blowing" and "unbelievable." These are allegations presented in the program, not judicial conclusions.
The report recalls that the New York Post reported that a spokesperson for the prosecutors got in touch and said that no defendant was safe from gun crimes. Presenter Kayleigh McEnany said she had examined the case and found it "really heinous".
Criticism and political debate
In the opinion of one of the guests, labels matter, and a prosecutor's job is to seek justice, keep the city safe and move cases forward in which it is possible to meet the burden of proof, without worrying about the impact on the individual situation of each accused. He said he did not understand how a prosecutor's office could, "in good conscience", proceed in this way.
Participants also linked the issue to New York's gun laws, which they consider restrictive, and criticized what they see as the inconsistency of those who call for restrictions on gun ownership for citizens and, at the same time, relax charges against illegal immigrants. One guest said he considered the city's gun rules unconstitutional.
Another guest, Donna, argued that some Democrats want non-citizens to be able to vote in the future and attributed this to their resistance to the Trump administration's deportation policy. The allegation was made on the program and was not accompanied by evidence in the transcript.
What does this mean for the market
The transcription does not contain numbers, economic data or mention of financial assets. For the investor, the case is a chapter in the American political dispute over immigration and security in large cities, a topic that usually comes on the radar of analysts when evaluating the institutional environment and the electoral debate in the United States. There is, for now, no measurable direct effect on the stock market, interest rates, dollar or Nasdaq.
The program also mentioned, at the end, the Senate race in Alaska and Mary Peltola's campaign, as well as a clash between candidates in the Democratic primary, but the available transcript does not provide enough details to delve deeper into these points.
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