"Prosecutors in hiring case scolded; Judge calls felony charge over illegal immigrant housekeeper ‘overreaching’" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | June 19, 2010
A federal judge rebuked the government yesterday for prosecuting an official of the Department of Homeland Security who employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper, saying prosecutors had been “overreaching’’ and “crushed’’ the defendant for what he characterized as a minor offense.
After unusually harsh criticism of prosecutors, US District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock postponed sentencing of Lorraine Henderson until he decides whether to grant a motion by her lawyers to set aside the verdict and acquit her.
Just wasted your time for chump change, 'eh, jurors?
Henderson was convicted in March of deliberately encouraging her Brazilian housekeeper to stay in the country illegally.
Related: The Immigration Escort Service
Cleaning Up the Housekeeper Case
And the judge makes a mess again.
Woodlock said Henderson, who is suspended from her $140,000-a-year job helping to keep some of New England’s key ports secure from illegal immigration, is the first person he knows of in the country charged with the felony of encouraging an illegal alien to stay in the United States by having employed an undocumented housekeeper.
Well, someone always has to be FIRST!
Although prosecutors might have had the authority to apply the law in the case, he said, it struck him as excessive, and his sentence is likely to reflect his distaste. He also questioned whether the case could open the door to ordinary citizens being charged for hiring house cleaners who turn out to be illegal.
That is NOT YOU and ME, dear American readers!!!
"illegal immigrants, who mow the lawns, trim the hedges, clean the swimming pools, park the cars, serve the hors d'oeuvres, tidy up the mansions, and do many of the other things that make life so enjoyable for the rich"
Doe that sound ORDINARY to you?
Have you managed to hold on to that MANSION before the BANK FORECLOSES on it?
So HOW MANY ILLEGALS is the JUDGE EMPLOYING?
“This is a cleaning lady,’’ he told prosecutors, a remark he made several times. “There must be some sense of proportion.’’
Umm, judge, there is ONLY ONE QUESTION for YOU!
Is it THE LAW or is it NOT the LAW!!!??
There ARE NO PROPORTIONS when it comes to a JURY VERDICT, I'm sorry!
This guy should be IMPEACHED!!!
Woodlock also said he was troubled that authorities arrested Henderson in December 2008 and kept her in a holding cell for hours, rather than merely order her to appear in court on the charge.
Notice AmeriKan judges are NEVER TROUBLED by GITMO or TORTURE?
And he said a prosecutor might have violated court rules of conduct by telling the Globe hours after Henderson’s arrest, “She’s supposed to be deporting aliens, not hiring them.’’
Lesson learned?
NEVER TALK to the GLOBE!!!!
Related:
Harvard student won’t face deportation
Eric Balderas, a 19-year-old Harvard biology student who became an international celebrity last week after being arrested for being in the United States unlawfully, is no longer facing deportation to Mexico, officials said last night....
So the LAW LITERALLY means NOTHING in Amerika.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency informed US Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois late yesterday that it would not pursue Balderas’s deportation, said Max Gleischman, a spokesman for Durbin. The Illinois Democrat had lobbied the agency on behalf of Balderas.The soft-spoken Harvard sophomore’s arrest on June 7 as he tried to board an airplane back to Boston after visiting his mother in San Antonio....
His detention thrust him into the center of a national debate over illegal immigration.
Only in the MSM! I want to talk about the NEVER-ENDING WARS based on LIES, the BANK and GOVERNMENT LOOTING of the TREASURY, the GULF OIL DISASTER, and ISRAEL'S ATROCITIES!
The LAST THINGS I CARE ABOUT RIGHT NOW are ILLEGALS and GAYS!!
We can GET TO THOSE ISSUES LATER!!!!
Related: Spending the Day in Arizona
Nope, already been there, agenda-pushers!
The Obama administration has pointed to his case and others as reason for Congress to create a path to legal residency for the estimated 12 million immigrants in the United States illegally.
Yeah, the AMNESTY AGENDA PUSH YET AGAIN!!
What part of N-O do you NOT UNDERSTAND, government?
But critics say it is unfair to allow people who broke the law to jump ahead of those who have waited for years to come to the United States legally. They say the economy still needs to find jobs for people who are US citizens or legal immigrants....
Which would be 75% of the American people, but they don't listen to us.
That is your lone paragraph of the piece.
Great balance from the agenda-pushing Globe, huh?
And they called it "news."
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