Border agents are flooding NYC nonprofits with improperly addressed court notices for asylum-seekers

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This is beyond cruel.

Border agents are purposefully improperly addressing and putting in court dates that they know refugees cannot make so that they will then be deemed “in absentia order of removal,” meaning the individual is subject to deportation.

cityandstateny.com
Border agents are flooding NYC nonprofits with improperly addressed court notices for asylum-seekers
Catholic Charities demanded on Tuesday that federal authorities take action to remedy the problem, which can put migrants at risk of deportation.
8:07 AM · Aug 17, 2022

https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/08/border-agents-are-flooding-nyc-nonprofits-improperly-addressed-court-notices-asylum-seekers/375930/

Federal border officials are addressing court notices for asylum seekers to random nonprofits in New York, putting migrants – some of whom have yet to even enter the state – at risk of deportation, according to advocates.

Since the week of July 11, Catholic Charities has received more than 300 notices instructing asylum-seekers to appear in immigration court at its three centers in Manhattan and the Bronx, plus several parishes. Legal Aid attorneys also said last week that the organization is receiving improperly addressed court notices.

If a person seeking asylum fails to appear, a judge can issue an “in absentia order of removal,” meaning the individual is subject to deportation.

“The notices are dated for people who have entered the country in the last several weeks. They have not even made it to New York, many of them,” Maryann Tharappel, special projects director for immigrant and refugee services at Catholic Charities, said Tuesday at a press conference outside of the organization’s headquarters, while calling on the federal government to ensure that officials at the southern border remedy the problem. She said the organization has made contact with the federal officials about the issue, but has yet to receive a plan of action.

“It’s been very difficult to get acknowledgement from the Department of Homeland Security,” Tharappel said. “There is an understanding that this is happening at the southern border, but we have not received any sort of response as to whether it has been stopped and what we can do to cure the situation.”

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[LowerManhattanite]

1. Border Patrol...

…particularly the Texas officers are pretty much a government-funded klavern.


THEE worst in U.S. law enforcement.

[dickthegrouch]

2. Isn't lying to a federal agent a crime?

I'm assuming the person doing the lying can also be a federal agent, and that filing false paperwork is equivalent to lying to a federal agent.

Take the signatures of every one of those applications and charge them.

Maybe a few months in their own jails will cure them of their proclivities to breaking the law.

[uponit7771]

3. Ghoulish level cruelty ...

[crickets]

4. K & R for visibility.