| SDNY Judge Denies US Bid To
Put ICE Detainee in MCC Where There Are No
Visits
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 17 -- Mayonex
Pena-Ortega has been in ICE
detention since February 20;
on March 17 he was presented
on a charge of illegal
re-entry in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrates Court and faced
remand to the Metropolitan
Corrections Center.
But what
sense would that make, his
Federal Defender argued, given
that they are currently no
visits including legal visits
to the MCC? She said this is
the type of case that, with
lawyers' access to ICE
facilities in Hudson or on
Varick Street, a plea can be
reached and resources
saved.
SDNY Magistrate
Judge Stewart D. Aaron asked
the Assistant US Attorney,
Isn't ICE part of the
executive branches, like your
Office? To Inner City
Press, it was not clear if it
was a rhetorical questions or
not.
I think so, the
AUSA replied.
Judge Aaron
declined to send Mayonex
Pena-Ortega to the MCC,
instead sending him back to
ICE custody.
He did, however,
imposed a travel restriction
to the SDNY and EDNY if the
defendant is released but not
deported by ICE. The case is
US v. Pena-Ortega, 20-mj-2956
(Aaron).
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