Law is said to be blind - and probably some Judges are more blind and the legal niceties are incorrigible.

If that was not so what can explain that an illegal immigrant, also previously convicted, was finally deported to his country with a ‘gift' of $145,000 from New York City taxpayers.

All that happened because of a weird interpretation of civil rights and their ‘violation' by a government department that was either lax, irresponsible, or all of the above. The man with the long rap sheet must be smiling back home in Barbados (it could have been any country sending its citizens illegally to the United States). The ‘deporting' gift might encourage others also to do the same what this 55-year-old father of three did and got away with it, legally.

This is just one example of the stand US authorities have taken on illegal, criminal people who cross over to the US, enjoy most of the benefits and if convicted of a crime and are declared deportable, get such a parting gift. Not all end up like the man from Barbados, but the ‘civil rights' for illegals and criminals are there to help them in various ways.

Civil rights for criminals? That's being too liberal!

Now with that experience the government department responsible for the first mistake in the first place, is releasing imprisoned illegals quickly enough to avoid such a situation in future.

What a law! What weird interpretation and what dangerous consequences not body cares! They are only mad and shout at the Arizona law that aims to deal with the situation the correct way.

According to a report by Reuven Blau of New York Post, May 9, "Cecil Harvey, an illegal immigrant was deported after city lawyers decided his civil rights had been violated when he was held too long on Rikers Island. Federal rules allow local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for only 48 hours after their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal facilities.

"But Harvey got the support of an immigration-rights advocacy group that his rights were violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before transfer to ICE. He was ultimately, shipped to Barbados in October 2007 and the city settled his civil suit late last year.

"This landmark settlement has prompted the Correction Department to dump scores of illegal immigrants on the streets, since federal officials often fail to pick them up within the required two-day window. "We just release them now," one high-ranking jail supervisor said. "It's ICE's problem to go find these guys."

[Meanwhile the illegal immigrant can go on with his illegal acts as long as he is not re-arrested.]

"Harvey, with three prior arrests, spent 35 days on Rikers, when he should have been moved to ICE.

"On Dec. 2, 2003, cops busted him in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly after midnight for drinking a bottle of Bacardi in public. Police said they found "crack cocaine residue" in his pocket.

"He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor drug charge and the judge ordered him released on his own recognizance, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

"He was eventually delivered to ICE, but released pending an appeal of his status. After he was arrested again on a warrant for missing his court date on his drug case while in federal custody, Harvey was held on Rikers for another month before being transferred to an ICE center in Alabama.

"I cannot speak for Rikers as to why he was not released to us within 48 hours," said ICE spokesman Harold Ort. "ICE lodges a detainer on removable aliens and the jail then contacts us when the alien is ready to be picked up by ICE."

"A City Law Department representative called the Harvey case an "unfortunate occurrence," but maintained it was an isolated mistake. The Department of Correction has tightened its procedures to prevent a reoccurrence," said Muriel Goode-Trufant, head of the city's federal litigation division."

This is a clear example of how the problem of illegal immigrants has gotten to the point it's now. The law is ambiguous and soft, the Judges seemed to be too liberal, and the authorities responsible for strictly following the law correctly too lax, indifferent or least bothered to act responsibly. Blame game is a familiar habit and nobody cares if that results in huge sums of money contributed by hard working American citizens, or bigger crimes.

Now that needs a quick and effective reform in favor of the law-abiding tax-paying American citizen and not illegal immigrants!