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Feds, please stop New York’s unequal protection of illegal-immigrant criminals
By Post Editorial Board Published May 9, 2026, 6:11 p.m. ET
Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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New York’s criminal-justice system desperately needs the attention of US Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — who’s had enough of woke district attorneys protecting illegals from prosecution to shield them from deportation, and so put law-abiding citizens at risk
Dhillon has begun with Soros-backed DA Steve Descano of Fairfax County, Va.
She just announced a probe of Descano policies ordering prosecutors to “consider immigration consequences where possible,” especially “the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with” as they decide what charges to file, what plea bargains to take, and what sentences to recommend.
That is: Go softer on an illegal immigrant than on a citizen who commits the same rape or assault, because the noncitizen is also at risk of deportation.
The wokists see that as an “unequal” outcome: The illegal gets deportation on top of his other sentence.
But it’s added “punishment” as the result of having committed an additional crime, namely border-hopping or another immigration offense such as overstaying a tourist visa.
Such “lenience for illegals” policies blatantly ignore the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.
The leniency is also a clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which forbids agencies getting federal tax dollars from discriminating based on race, color, or national origin.
Descano already has blood on his hands: His office dropped charges against illegal thug Marvin Morales-Ortez and let him walk free — and within 24 hours he had murdered a man.
But the madness is also rampant in New York too. A few recent examples:
• Trans illegal Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez raped a 14-year-old boy in a bodega bathroom — and got six months from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, a fraction of the normal sentence for such a heinous crime.
• Six migrant thugs charged in a vicious Times Square cop attack got light-as-a-feather plea deals, including one who had been re-arrested after a days earlier bail-out.
• Two illegal gangbangers with reputed Tren de Aragua connections, busted in a Woodside drug raid, got slaps on the wrist from Queens DA Melinda Katz’s office.
Democrats in New York have long embraced this bias:
• In 2018 Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez began requiring his prosecutors to seek “immigration-neutral disposition” of cases, i.e. charges that won’t result in deportation.
• That same year, the state’s top court ruled that illegals must get jury trials for crimes that would be bench trials for non-illegals.
• In 2020, the state passed the “One Day To Protect New Yorkers” law, dropping the max penalty of class A misdemeanors to under a year so conviction for those crimes won’t trigger deportations.
Mind you, none of this is about protecting anyone whose only crime is being here illegally: It’s about protecting those who then commit more crimes — including violent ones.
Which is crazy: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers favor deporting violent-criminal illegal immigrants — it’s a complete no-brainer.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/opinion/feds-please-stop-new-yorks-unequal-protection-of-illegal-immigrant-criminals/
By Post Editorial Board Published May 9, 2026, 6:11 p.m. ET
Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Getty Images
New York’s criminal-justice system desperately needs the attention of US Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — who’s had enough of woke district attorneys protecting illegals from prosecution to shield them from deportation, and so put law-abiding citizens at risk
Dhillon has begun with Soros-backed DA Steve Descano of Fairfax County, Va.
She just announced a probe of Descano policies ordering prosecutors to “consider immigration consequences where possible,” especially “the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with” as they decide what charges to file, what plea bargains to take, and what sentences to recommend.
That is: Go softer on an illegal immigrant than on a citizen who commits the same rape or assault, because the noncitizen is also at risk of deportation.
The wokists see that as an “unequal” outcome: The illegal gets deportation on top of his other sentence.
But it’s added “punishment” as the result of having committed an additional crime, namely border-hopping or another immigration offense such as overstaying a tourist visa.
Such “lenience for illegals” policies blatantly ignore the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.
The leniency is also a clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which forbids agencies getting federal tax dollars from discriminating based on race, color, or national origin.
Descano already has blood on his hands: His office dropped charges against illegal thug Marvin Morales-Ortez and let him walk free — and within 24 hours he had murdered a man.
But the madness is also rampant in New York too. A few recent examples:
• Trans illegal Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez raped a 14-year-old boy in a bodega bathroom — and got six months from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, a fraction of the normal sentence for such a heinous crime.
• Six migrant thugs charged in a vicious Times Square cop attack got light-as-a-feather plea deals, including one who had been re-arrested after a days earlier bail-out.
• Two illegal gangbangers with reputed Tren de Aragua connections, busted in a Woodside drug raid, got slaps on the wrist from Queens DA Melinda Katz’s office.
Democrats in New York have long embraced this bias:
• In 2018 Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez began requiring his prosecutors to seek “immigration-neutral disposition” of cases, i.e. charges that won’t result in deportation.
• That same year, the state’s top court ruled that illegals must get jury trials for crimes that would be bench trials for non-illegals.
• In 2020, the state passed the “One Day To Protect New Yorkers” law, dropping the max penalty of class A misdemeanors to under a year so conviction for those crimes won’t trigger deportations.
Mind you, none of this is about protecting anyone whose only crime is being here illegally: It’s about protecting those who then commit more crimes — including violent ones.
Which is crazy: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers favor deporting violent-criminal illegal immigrants — it’s a complete no-brainer.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/opinion/feds-please-stop-new-yorks-unequal-protection-of-illegal-immigrant-criminals/
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