Sanctuary NYC Ignores Warrant, Releases Dominican Dealer

Despite an immigration detainer and an arrest warrant from a judge, officials in sanctuary New York City released a drug dealer onto the streets. Immigration agents moved quickly to arrest the previously deported Dominican national before he could commit other crimes. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested Joselin Medina, 58, at the Bronx Criminal Court in New York on June 16. Jail officials released the convicted criminal and wanted fugitive on a bond on June 15. Three days earlier, ERO officers filed an immigration detainer and a federal criminal arrest warrant with the City, which then chose to ignore the warrant, according to information obtained from ICE. -- More...