Bloomberg gives New York a green light for illegal immigrants who commit misdemeanor crimes

Bloomberg gives New York a green light for illegal immigrants who commit misdemeanor crimes. New York Mayor Bloomberg signed two immigration bills on the 18th, restricting the New York City Police Department from handing over arrested immigrants regardless of their severity...

Bloomberg gave New York a green light for illegal immigrants who committed misdemeanor crimes. New York Mayor Bloomberg signed two immigration bills on the 18th, restricting the New York City Police Department from handing over arrested immigrants to the Immigration Bureau regardless of their severity. When signing the bill, Bloomberg said that New York City attaches great importance to the contributions of immigrants, and the newly passed bill is intended to make New York the most immigrant-friendly city in the world. Bloomberg also said that the new bill is a direct response to the USCIS’s “Secure Communities Program”. Since May 2012, the Immigration Bureau has launched the "Safe Communities Plan" in New York State, stipulating that New York City police must cooperate with the Immigration Bureau. When a person is arrested by the police, the police can see the person's immigration status from the Immigration Bureau file. The police must forward the arrested person's fingerprints to the Immigration Bureau. If the person is a foreigner, the Immigration Bureau has the right to ask the police to temporarily detain the person, then pick him up and put him in an immigration detention center to await deportation. The plan is opposed by immigration rights groups because some illegal immigrants are arrested for traffic violations or minor violations of the law and then deported by immigration authorities. The New York City government's new law stipulates that police are not allowed to transfer the fingerprints of people who have committed some misdemeanors, including driving without a driver's license and prostitution, who are often victims of human smuggling. Fingerprints are forwarded to USCIS only if the immigrant has committed a felony or misdemeanor in the past 10 years, is wanted on a criminal warrant, is a gang member, a terrorist, has a deportation order, has been charged with a felony or certain misdemeanors including sexual assault, possession of a firearm, drunk driving, or violated a protection order.