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   Daniel Davon-Bonilla is a Nicaraguan migrant who has been in the country   
   since December 2022. He made his way to New York City where in a matter of   
   months he was accused of raping a trans woman at a migrant shelter.   
      
   That really should have been the end of it for Davon-Bonilla. He should   
   have gone to prison for a long time and then been deported. Instead, the   
   victim refused to testify and Davon-Bonilla wound up being released as   
   part of a plea deal for a lesser charge. A couple days after not showing   
   up for his sentencing he (allegedly) raped another woman in Coney Island.   
      
   When I wrote about this case a couple weeks ago it wasn't entirely clear   
   how all this had happened but I had a guess:   
      
   Once he agreed to a plea deal, he should have been on a plane or bus back   
   to Nicaragua. Why didn't that happen? Probably because New York City   
   refused to cooperate with ICE and ensured this guy would remain on the   
   street to commit another attack. I don't know that for certain but it has   
   definitely happened before.   
      
   Today the NY Times has a story about the case and it seems to confirm my   
   hunch. No one notified ICE even though, legally, they were allowed to do   
   so because of the seriousness of the crime involved.   
      
   The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, had   
   informed the city that it intended to deport Mr. Davon-Bonilla when he was   
   first charged with rape, the agency said. But neither the city nor the   
   Brooklyn district attorney notified federal officials when he was released   
   that day in June.   
      
   Mr. Davon-Bonilla did not show up for his sentencing on Aug. 9. Two days   
   later, the police say, he raped a homeless woman under the Coney Island   
   boardwalk.   
      
   New York is a so-called sanctuary city, one of several across the United   
   States that try to minimize the deportation of migrants. In practice, this   
   means that local law enforcement officials limit their coordination with   
   federal immigration authorities.   
      
   There are some wrinkles in this story. First, ICE claims it sent a   
   detainer request to the Corrections Department when Davon-Bonilla was   
   first charged with rape but the Corrections Department claims it doesn't   
   have one regarding this case.   
      
   The other issue here is that because the victim in the first case wouldn't   
   testify, the charges were dropped from rape down to second-degree assault.   
   In June of this year Davon-Bonilla pleaded guilty and was released prior   
   to his sentencing in August. He was probably going to get time served   
   because he'd already been at Rikers for about 15 months. But as mentioned,   
   he didn't show up for his sentencing and two days later he was arrested   
   for another rape, this time of a homeless woman in Coney Island.   
      
   John Chell, the Police Department’s chief of patrol, said this about the   
   case: "Failing to act enables individuals like Daniel Davon-Bonilla to   
   continue victimizing women in our city." That seems to be what happened   
   here. John Sandweg, a former acting director of ICE told the NY Times, "If   
   someone is charged with rape, you’re jeopardizing public safety."   
      
   What should have happened here is that when Davon-Bonilla pleaded guilty,   
   ICE should have been notified he was going to be released. There are 177   
   serious crimes which, even in NYC, stand above the sanctuary law. The   
   second-degree felony assault Davon-Bonilla pleaded guilty to is one of   
   those. So why didn't someone notify ICE? That's still a mystery, but the   
   Brooklyn DA's office said it wasn't their job.   
      
   Prosecutors did not tell ICE about Mr. Davon-Bonilla’s plea deal or his   
   release. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office, which in 2017 said it   
   would change its practices to protect immigrants, does not generally   
   divulge such information to federal officials, Mr. Yaniv said...   
      
   Mr. Yaniv said prosecutors had not known that the defendant was subject to   
   deportation, but that immigration was not the district attorney’s   
   responsibility. “Even if we had 20/20 vision, it wouldn’t have changed   
   anything,” he said.   
      
   In other words, even knowing Davon-Bonilla went on to rape again, they   
   have no regrets. Their view is that the processing of cases is public and   
   if ICE wanted Davon-Bonilla it should have paid closer attention to his   
   case. ICE points out it has thousands of cases across the country at any   
   given time and can't keep up with new developments in all of them.   
      
   A courtesy call from the DA's office would likely have prevented another   
   serious crime. You have to believe that if it weren't for the general   
   anti-ICE views of the DA and Democrats in New York, that call would have   
   been made.   
      
   https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/08/26/nycs-sanctuary-city-policies-   
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